Can’t dress that up in any other way than being piss poor.
I accept the premise of giving the manager time to improve the playing style, play to a new system, getting whole team performances in place etc. But after a season and a bit, I would at least have expected to see some of the mental toughness, leadership qualities, responsibility taking and so on start to emerge on a regular and more consistent basis. Particularly, as these qualities have been said by Ange to be essential for success. Yet we remain on this weekly yo-yo of up one week, down the next and really, not to have progressed in any meaningful way on improved mentality and approaching every game with the same level of importance. Very frustrating and really needs addressing now.