ReadingCanary 0 Posted August 28, 2016 I was just wondering what people thoughts were on whether AN has been allowed to get away with a lot more than his predecessors because of "that day at Wembley".It certainly seems that winning the play-offs gave him several get out of free jail cards in the eyes of the board when things started going horribly wrong in the prem. I''m not anti AN, i strongly believe that with a fully fit squad he will get us back on track, but I''m pretty certain that not many other managers would be able to get away with some of the bad signings / performances / decisions we''ve seen in recent weeks/months which AN does.Wembley will always be a special day in all our lives. But surely that shouldn''t cloud our judgement on a managers future?Thoughts? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
birchfest 401 Posted August 28, 2016 I''d say though that any manager that can navigate a team through the play offs and come out the other side with promotion has got something about them. It''s not just that though, think of how (untill yesterday) we were unbeaten in this league away from home, and we spent most of the season out of the relegation places... Though managed to drop into them just in time!I''m not defending him on the current state of things, but there is a difference between a team like us and what happened and a team like Villa who looked awful all season and never looked anything but relegation fodder. Because of that its then easier to include injuries, poor transfers and bad reffing into the mix, rather than in being squarely on the manager. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
