Its not that, you take away the 6 or so games of the season and do you think Rotating the defence regulary without reason, playing 442 regardless of opposition, easily loosing 2 goal leads, being knocked out of domestic cups without a fight with arguably one of our stronger line ups, being out witted against the weaker teams at home and a general half arsed attempt at keeping the title fills alot up with confidence?
Yes we finished 2nd with a lot of stats in our favour thanks to a strong finish aswell, yes we had FFP to contend with and a world cup hangover and we know they'll be changes in personel to the squad which can only be even better, but what makes you so sure that all same problems we've had won't exsist next season and that we will be stronger than our rivals who will also be spending?
Most on here think Pellers rotated for the sake of it and because we lost some silly games it fits their argument. We have no idea why he rotated, it could easily have been players were not performing in training or they had picked up a knock, so to say it was for the sake of it, is purely speculation.
I will conceed 442 was played more often that it should have been, but with the quality of the players (on paper) that he was fielding week in week out, why would he think they would struggle.
Going out of the domestic cups early, I would blame the players more than the manager. I suspect there wont be many thinking the team he put out would have got beaten on the day.
He has also had to deal with several "key players" having their heads elsewhere, which for any manager, would be a difficult scenario to work through.
He is not a novice manager by any stretch of the imagination, and I think if we offload the right players and get the players we are after, he will work wonders for us this next season, even if it is his last. To suggest he wont give a shit as several have because its his last year, is just rediculous.
Iv'e supported Pellers most of the season and at one point switched to I think he should move on, but I am glad he will have another opportunity to manage players who are committed to the cause.