That is the point I am getting at. I don’t think Hill has done well, like I say I am not finding excuses for Hill. Mitigating factors aside, he will have to take some blame for the transfers and their inadequacies.
However, what I find frustrating is that when Cox was here people, including yourself, were asking what good would sacking a manager do, no-one else can do any better under the conditions of the board. Now Hill is not given the same benefit of the doubt.
By the time Cox left there was no real defence for him besides this. We were going nowhere under him. It’s easy to say we haven’t done as well with Hill in hindsight, but we didn’t have that at the time. What we did know was that Hill had a proven track record at this level. Cox had nothing, bar letting them have it and a half-fit squad.
