Mate, firstly he left and didn't wait for the golden "Thanks, but no thanks anymore, here's your compo" goodbye.

Secondly, promotion has suddenly become like falling down the stairs for some on here because we had the same 10 players plus Garvan or Moritz available with opponents unprepared for them for 8 or so games. Many have forgotten we had no Garvan, Moritz or Williams for over 2 months. That is when we and any manager would've struggled. If it was so straight forward, noone would care about getting players in now to keep us up.

Thirdly, I think where IH was doomed to fail was losing Murray, Zaha, Bolasie for a couple of months, and Moritz & Garvan judged not good enough. (only DF wanted Moritz and after scoring a few, isn't picked)

Fourth, I don't think the squad was in as such a mess as people think. Millen and TP used the same players and got results. Where IH went wrong was a confused strategy. Too many brand new players debuting, too many changes. Gayle 1st forward on the teamsheet. Trying to be too optimistic about what we could do, without being able to start it off, playing deep at the back with the mindset of being dominant/attacking.

There were a few errors in the additions made, but they've all gone now, so they're hardly unwanted everywhere.

Luckily for us and Parish's decisions when needed, we got DF who made about 75% good decisions on players, just probably hasn't got the intelligence and nerve to match other managers. We got IH who had 1 promo and 1 very nearly play off promo under his belt. And the best survival manager we could've wished for. You can't chop and change manager like that with our size so we're lucky they did it for us, otherwise I doubt that sequence of events would have happened somewhere down the line.