Fairly thoughtful analysis. I did get the feeling there was a good chunk of the fandom that a) liked him anyway as a no nonsense character in an industry where nonsense comes standard and b) appreciated that he’d been an important part of the turn around in results, even if he hadn’t been smashing in the goals. Watching as much as I did at Newcastle I felt he didn’t die with the ball at Newcastle.
Newcastle is an auteur manager project. It’ll be interesting to see what happens and what is happening at Forest.
As well, you might have missed a few chances that annoy you (and all the forwards at Newcastle have had some shockers) but it’s still probably quite nice to take home 6 or 7 million a year for your work in any case!