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Why would they if majority of the squad is in agreement to the manager's method?
In normal employment, employees can just tender and leave if they are not happy for whatever reasons. They can't do that in football unless they buy out their contracts. How do you expect them to perform at the best, collectively, when the problem is more clearly now due to the single one man, the manager?
This is going to end up being circular, but was it the players or manager who should be praised for the stonking couple of seasons we had? What happened to "win as a team, lose as a team"? All very easy to say when you're winning.
I guess I just don't think its a simple matter of getting Maureen in and suddenly everything clicks back to how it was in 16/17. I also think we owe the guy a tad more loyalty than we as a collective have shown. We demand multiple seasons of loyalty from players and management, regardless of how well or badly we are doing. Perhaps we should go more than a run of bad form before throwing everyone under the bus. You can say "that is modern football", but it doesn't have to be. Idealistic perhaps but there it is.