Cardinal

Morris has been a disaster for the club. As I've said before in my personal opinion he has been the worst owner we've ever had bar the crooks who were running us in the early 2000's. Even Maxwell didn't leave us in this much of a mess. Morris' love of a celebrity manager regardless of their coaching experience, his interference in teams affairs, sacking a manager when we were 4th in the table, sacking a manager who had dragged us from the bottom three into playoff contention, signing off on signings like Blackman, Anya etc - everything he has touched has turned to dust. He might point to the academy as his legacy but to be honest we had better quality players coming through the academy well before he arrived and quite frankly I don't see any of the current crop of youngsters being anything special going forward.
All I hope now is that whatever division we are in next season we start it with a properly experienced manager who is given time to develop the team, a board that favours sensible low key squad investment/rebuilding over ludicrously overpriced show pony signings and that as a football club we just show some class, dignity and humility because I'm sick to death of the Mel Morris era Derby County. 

What a mess we have got into. Why were we ever happy to have-
A) an unqualified manager with barely a year of coaching experience
B) A manager who as a player here didn't set the professional standards on the pitch for effort or keeping himself in shape
C) A player who brought with him rumours early on this season that he was looking for coaches for this job, that wasn't even available.
D) A player/manager funded through our sponsor using some elite deal.
We just couldn't resist the lure of the high profile, global superstar. We didn't care the tank was empty, he was going to make us rich.
I can't help but feel totally disillusioned with the club. In my opinion Cocu was an inspired choice but we saddled him with a player bigger than the club, a player with aspirations as a manager. A player who totally undermined his boss. 
Now Cocu may still have failed but we allowed ourselves to get into a position where we had to sack the manager  because of a so called superstar player. I wish we had chosen to sack Rooney not Cocu. If Cocu went, they all had to go. It stank early on and it stinks ever stronger.
Rooney may turn out to be a good manager elsewhere but this was never on. How can he demand desire and energy from the players with shoddy example he set here?