Yep, this is what I always said about him. Thing I didn't realise was that none of it was to do with actually knowing what he's doing with tactics etc, it was just keeping the lads happy when someone in the team happens to win a game for him.
How much of management is down to 'tactics'?
I think someone like SMC is a good coach but perhaps a poor tactician and has poor motivation skills.
Pardew seems pretty poor at everything but can whip up tremendous team spirit and is generally liked by players.
I don't know TBH. How important a manager is in general is something that's hard to quantify. If you gave Steve Arsenal's squad he would get into the Champions League quite easily I imagine. This season has raised a lot of those type of questions.
The manager is just one piece in the puzzle of the club. We have an embedded culture of failure, and bad transfer policy, so any manager has a hard job on. Then again, to relegate a squad containing as many good players as this would seem to be something uniquely awful on the face of it.
TBH I don't know how important a manager is, 'it depends' is probably the best answer.
This post made a lot of us sad.