Of course he is right Term. To be fair, he recruited for a team that plays a different style and he was on the radio news this morning saying some players are not up to the new style and would be moved on at the end of the season.
That's quite telling I think in that a: He did not recruit for this style of football and its quite evident watching the team play b: While the endeavour to want to play this new style is good, it should have been signalled to Ricki about now, in private, that this is what we want to do next year and recruit accordingly with a full offseason to implement. Putting it in now has only really exposed the players who can't play this way technically and really turned this season upside down. While that's good for next years recruiting seeing who can play, its rubbish for this years results and I honestly believe that this season is now a write off in respect that if we do qualify for the play offs, that's a bonus. We are not a play off calibre team as it stands with this team and a new style that we do not have the players for and no incoming cattle and nothing is going to change. Its not angst or negativity, its reality. We are not good enough. I even notice some of the more ardent fans whose opinion I do respect (El Grap for example) are now going 'can't defend that performance'
Again, if you have the ingredients for Spaghetti Bolognaise and the customer wants a Burrito, you are basically stuffed.