I'm a few days late to this party, but I'll type up what I know about the attitudes inside the camp in the build up to the resignation.
Ernie lost the dressing room mid last year. The players were frustrated with him, his rigidity, his refusal to do anything new. They were annoyed he didn't turn up for the first 3 weeks of preseason (seriously that's fudgeed up) and senior players had had words with Rob Morrison about Ernie's continuing tenure as early as preseason.
Morrison was ready to appoint somebody this week, and it was *not* Mark Rudan, despite some of the rumours. That's been put on hold for a bit, and Greenacre and Buckingham are taking over for the meantime, with large amounts of input from the senior players.
People in the team were annoyed about a few things: Roly's performances and attitude as well as Ernie's refusal to play players who had earned their spot - there is a feel in the team that guys like Lowry have earned more minutes (why is Parkhouse at LB ahead of him?), but with Ernie at the helm the XI was predictable week in, week out and that causes a lot of disruption amongst the fringe players.
Overall it seems like frustration had been building for a while and this is how it has boiled over, I'm really hoping that we see things changing, but I don't know how drastic it will be given its still Greeny and Des at the helm, and todays XI looks like mostly the same players, but with Watson starting we may be about to see an actual, real life striker on the pitch!
100% a case of jumping before he was pushed, but we knew that.
2 Wags have already left the country due to the earthquakes (Finkler and Bonevacia) with Mrs Rossi soon to follow, and the chances of Marco being back next year are slim to none unless we offer him marquee money somehow (I do think he's worth more to us than Kosta or Gui) so I'm sure stuff like that is a distraction to the players as well.
Interesting, and I think has been pretty much born out on the pitch. I agree on Rossi, the guy is a gun