They just didn't play for him which may or may not be his fault ...
And that, I think, is the real nub of it.
We have players who could 'get up' for the game on Saturday but not today. We had a manager who did not get the players' attitudes right for today.
I can only speculate but my take is that McMinge is a "nice but dim" sort of guy who is not subtle enough and tactically aware enough to deal with both the players and the demands of the games. One-offs: okay - it's may be easy to get the team buzzing. But it's the sustainability of peak performance that is difficult (as PubeHead found out).
Maybe playing the kids is the answer. Maybe being brave and offloading a couple of the defensive dinosaurs is right. Maybe walking out now is right.
I just do not want McGinge to become the classic sports-quiz queston: "Which manager took two diffferent teams down in successive seasons from the Premiership?" [clue: they were both from the same city]
