This.
Except I won't loyally defend our employees if I don't think they are good enough/pulling their weight. Darren took us down, Darren failed to get us back up the first season, and he scraped us up the second season. 96 points doesn't show the poor quality of opposition we faced and narrowly scraped a win against (and there was a fair few!) and that we threw away a massive advantage at the top of the league coming into Easter. The Play-off win doesn't show we lost 4-0 to Peterborough and laboured over the line in the 120th minute against 10 men Barnsley. Promotion in the record books doesn't show we ended up in the Championship with an aging squad which was well off the standards for that level.
Darren did plenty of positives at SWFC and after the Peterborough second leg, I thought that in itself deserved another season. But I can also point to individual games where he deserved sacking on the spot. A good guy, but I think we all knew he had a ceiling, and us at the top end of League One/battling Championship relegation was that ceiling. He showed that at Doncaster before us, he's gone on to show that at Huddersfield, and now at Port Vale, I think he just took the wrong job when he should have waited and taken a break.
Thankfully, after a shocking replacement for Darren, we've got a manager to take us up levels (if he stays!), so let's enjoy that, thank Darren for his services, and finally move on!