This interview, if taken at face value, ought to have a few posters eating their words in relation to the alleged team disharmony, falling out with the coach/Fyfe/Bennell/etc., not happy with the clubs’ direction, etc. that some were trotting out as reasons for his departure.
Of course, that would require the ability to honestly reflect on past utterings, acknowledging the inconsistencies of their positions in light of the comments from the individual concerned repudiating such hogwash and having the integrity to correct the record.
Instead, lazy excuses are trotted out along the lines that Neale is somehow still towing a ‘company line’/wants to preserve relationships with a view to a future return/ etc.
Or to put it another way, if LN is the man of honour, integrity and humility that we have known over the past 7 years - either you believe what he says or you believe he’s just talking BS. You can’t have it both ways - though I fully expect some to try to do just that.
That the truth has turned it to be closer to what the pro-club posters believed - that is, a great opportunity to earn more coin than anywhere else, potential Captaincy and for a change in scenery for him and his soon to be bride - is simply too hard for some to accept.
