I'm giving him a chance! I'm not like some US Republican who wants failure so I can be right. Every game I tune in optimistic that Merrick has proved me wrong and he can make a silk purse out of Vinnie Lia and Steyn Huysegems. So far he has disappointed me.
As to coaching, I really think we should have got a professional from Europe who didn't have "A-League experience"; i.e. didn't have preconceptions about what had to be done and could have done a better job of working with what he had. No, I don't know who that might have been.
And I don't care whether Carlos could have walked into any other A-League team, right here right now he's been average-to-disappointing in his tenure with the Nix.