This board, these owners - had from December 2018 to March 2019 to extensively check CVs; analyse data, interview candidates, talk with agents, scout teams and managers, hold meetings, deliberate, presumably pick the brain of the greatest manager of all time, and finally... arrive at a decision regarding the next managerial appointment. The outcome of this laborious undertaking was them saying "Let's just give it to the caretaker guy; he smiles a lot and the team seems to have responded to him".
With hindsight (although I thought so at the time as well, albeit with far less certainty) this has proven to be a very bad decision, but I believe that all the higher ups (unlike the very unamazed and relentless Ole out crowd) are genuinely taken unawares by this start to the season. I really think this is a shock for them. They will, again, not know what to do or who to look to, if they should pull the trigger; and that just makes me apprehensive about what's to come.