It's all very clever by Randy really. Mcleish was all about curbing our expectations. I'm fairly sure most would accept almost anything after this disaster of a season.
Thats actually a business strategy for changing culture...
You change the working environment rapidly and aggressively, significantly past where you want the culture to sit so the people do not like the working environment...
You then loosen the rules so you are in the culture you want... people forget about the good old days, and dont realise they are in a different space to before as they are just glad to be out of the nightmare!!!
maybe randy "the business man" lerner is applying the same theories to us! ha