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.
No disrespect intended to you or your sources, but this is the first time I personally am hearing any of this, which seems odd that this player revolt against Ernie has been covered up for almost a year. I have become skeptical of anonymous internal sources since one told me that Stephen Joyce was going to be the next Prime Minister and Bill English was a distraction.
I don't know nelfoos but he's previously disclosed his source on here (assuming it's the same), and they're someone close to the team.
The truth is likely somewhere in between, Durante wasn't acting (or if he was he's improved since Shortland st) at the press conference and there was real regret there.
People like to gossip and, as Ernie said, everyone is upset when you lose. The truth probably isn't that he lost the dressing room fully, although it might have seemed that way sometimes when players gossiped. And the truth probably wasn't that people still bought wholesale into his philosophy, because it obviously wasn't getting results. Like most things in life the real truth lies somewhere in the middle and would change depending on who you spoke to and how they felt on the day.