Personally, I was driven away by the endless doom and gloom, and by the self-proclaimed fonts of inside info, who turned out to be wrong as regularly as they turned out to be right.
The worst thing was the hostiity to Ian Lenagan's regime, which seemed to manifest from the moment he arrived. The focus of this was a small group of embittered malcontents, who just couldn't seem to get over the fact that we no longer signed a bunch of top-level internationals each year, while many of the others were sheep who followed them.
For adopting a somewhat more positive line, I was called everything from Ian Lenagan's wife to Ian Lenagan himself.
Whether the repeated success that IL went on to bring to the club had a modifying effect on this endless whingeing, I don't know, because I never went back to check.
