Whilst I appreciate that making a decision on the present based on the alternate is not ideal, I am left with "if not him then who...?"
We've tried novice (Unsworth), we've tried seasoned (Shez), we've tried novel (Selim), we've tried proven (MM), we've tried homegrown (Wild, Scholes)... we've tried a fuckload of managers and we've been consistently shit. Some have had pennies, some pounds.
I will keep asking - are poor results a direct result of a string of 20 shit managers, or symptom of a deeper root cause?
Frank's put right a lot (LOT!) of things, but changing from a culture of expected failure to one of patient winning is hard.
We seem to want (expect) to exist in an impossible place...