Any one remember right back at the beginning of the season Ricki said this was going to be a transition year, without clarifying what he meant....and everyone went, "WTF is he talking about".
Maybe he meant that this was the transitioning of our play to a more attacking passing style. If this was the case then if he had mentioned that at the time it would have saved all this hassle.
Why the style transition was not generally mentioned(to the players as well) we can only speculate. Maybe it was to be a real gradual change or maybe they did not want to make a big deal out of it to avoid "Nix to play like Barcelona" headlines which would have just added more pressure.
By the way...with some notable exceptions many media people are scumbags!