I try not to judge how good or true a fan is based on their opinion of the manager at the time. I was the victim of plenty of that over the years (as Redtrader will know if he's the same one who used to post/mod on Newkit). You can't make someone have faith in a manager if they don't already, only the manager himself can do that in his performance.
I totally get why people think Brendan has under performed, that always happens when someone's performance doesn't match up to your expectation. For me, he's actually gone a little better than I thought he would after the summer transfer window closed so I don't feel that. Equally, I still think Joe Allen will become a very good player for us, and I like Borini too so there's no minus for me there either.
The two aspects of the criticism which get on my tits are this. Firstly when people won't even give credit to the team and the manager when we obviously play well, like yesterday. Picking fault in that would be the equivalent of doing so after some of our excellent champions league performances under Rafa (I'm not comparing he achievement, just the performance). The other bit which gets me sometimes is when people really obviously want the manager out, but won't actually say it. Equally, they want a particular manager in but won't say it either. At least I was honest where some previous managers were concerned, if only they'd be the same.
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