blueandwhitehalves
Senior Member
Given we went from 15th in his second last season, to 8th in his last season, I'm not sure what the evidence is that he'd taken us as far as he could. I've heard the argument a lot, but I feel like it doesn't take into account his last season. In that he clearly came up with a different system (going 5 at the back after the Fulham game), which conceded 5 goals in the next 13 games and got us up to 2nd. It was heavily reliant on Brereton playing out of his skin at the other end, so stopped working when he got injured. But either way new things were still happening that he hadn't tried before, so I'm not sure how fans can know he'd taken us as far as he could.He had five years let’s remember, most don’t get that long. He had taken us as far as he could.