I find that strange Trent.
One of the main things I see on VT, about our defence, is that Warnock, Collins, Dunne & Hutton are all terrible.
Do you think that Dunne has been making the others play terribly?
Or have you just failed to ignore the fact that the others have been playing poorly, to back-up your point that Dunne is the real problem and therefore McLeish deserves no credit for him not being in the team?
Hutton, Collins & Warnock were all solid against Fulham. McLeish get's blamed for not motivating the players to play well, so why shouldn't he get credit when they put in a great shift like they did on Saturday?
(And please don't spout the 'You're putting words in my mouth' nonsense. I'm asking you a question).
This isn't directed at you Trent and I'm not saying you are right or wrong to not credit McLeish here, but what Rob says seems very much the fans usual reaction to anything.
Something poo - McLeish is to blame
Something good - McLeish got lucky
Like him or not, seems a bit unfair to me.
I'm inclined to agree with that to some extent but it is tempered by the point on Dunne. Really, at what point can you envision he would have dropped Dunne? Or Collins if Dunne hadn't been injured? At what point would he have wised up and put King Carlos back in?
My fear is that he wouldn't have and would have persisted with them so I can see the point about him sort of getting lucky by having his hand forced.
However, hating on Eck is the prerogative of anyone but it won't change anything in the short term. He isn't going anywhere else anytime soon, that much is clear. Anyone who thinks otherwise is, I think, giving in to wishful thinking and not reading the signs.