Doubt people want him to fail (besides some Jose apologists). Remember many of these people clamoured for him to get the permanent job. Why do a 180 and irrationally hate him? He didn't shoot anyone's dog. Before the season began it was commonly expressed by many that a discernable style of play would be a better barometer for progress than results. That sounded fair. That's still the standard to many. You don't have to agree, you may have another measure of progress you've bought into but it's not unreasonable
I think the majority of us is like this, and can have a discussion about pros and cons of the squad changes, the level of focus on youth, and locals, the tactical changes or attempts at tactical changes, the attitudes around club ethos, relation between academy and elite team etc.
It’s polluted a bit by some of the minority posting much, much more frequent and black/white than the majority, and a bit by the polarising effect of any short-sentenced discussion, where you might go on responding to balance my overly optimistic view and I keep reaponding to balance your overly pessimistic view, making it seem like I can see now flaws and you can see no positives. I guess it’s best to focus on the latter posters and remember to acknowledge their points as well.
I’d hazard a guess that the ratio of posts of posters ‘completely negative to everything’ outnumber the posts ‘completely positive to everything by about 10 to one. It does something to the environment that I’ll have to try to ignore I guess.
What is less than convincing are arguments like ‘there are no signs of ... (positives/negatives)’ as it just makes it seem one is unable to see half of the field and equally unable to listen to people seeing what oneself doesn’t.