The comments are understandable though. We have some of the best players in this league and the strongest squad in the league. What we don’t have is the best manager. For clarity, I think he’s done OK, but “could/must do better” is a fair assessment.
We also have some players that aren’t the best in the league. We’ve also had an injury to a key striker which kept him out for almost two months. We’ve also had off-the-field noise a bit too loud in recent weeks.
We’ve also got absolutely no right to presume that because we were fairly well-equipped to do well that we actually would do well. That’s not really how football works – it’s still a bit of a lottery when there are other teams battling and bullying their way forward in this league. But you can mitigate against that as much as possible – and I think we did do. We fell a bit short for a spell, and our ongoing away form has been average, and those things have cost us the title. But we’ve been relatively consistent across the whole season and we’re still in with a shout of getting promotion. So I’d say Butler has done quite well.
