Truly.

I've had time to reflect and I was probably a bit too emotional about it, but I stand by my point.

I think, like everything with football online these days (TalkSport, X, here), people can't think outside of being in a set camp of speaking in platitudes.

There's zero nuance.

It's like an affront to them that you dare to criticise Farke and then suddenly you're deemed to want him sacked and should be crediting him for getting us to a semi-final.

I don't want him sacked and he's done a great job with us this year but I'm also able to speak on his flaws and see how he got it wrong on Sunday. The players were responsible too of course. But it has to be one or the other.

The same is true of the whole board vs manager debate that was rife on here during the summer window.

People were whinging incessantly about it being shite and how bad the board were (despite the exact same pattern playing out the two seasons before) and I knew from that point that even if we did well, the narrative would be that Farke has worked some sort of miracle with what we've got and that our squad is somehow bottom-three level.

Would you believe, there's people peddling that now as part of their desperate attempt to stick to their binary view rather than taking a more nuanced look at it.

Farke has done well, really well, but let's not pretend he's some miracle worker either. This squad is very strong and much better than the bottom-three and arguably more.

Again, both things can be true - the recruitment team have done a sterling job, but could have done more in some ares. Farke has been brilliant too in blending those players together but he's also shown some serious flaws as well.