Ockham's Razor wrote:
Danny
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sounds very reasonable OR unless
the Board had decided on a set path and began to 'leak' that out to people (ie Kenny, EB, Synbad) and then changed their mind sbecause they were too scared of the ramifications of their decision.
If what you say is right I am fine with the whole thing - quite happy for Denis to stay on in fact.
If the latter though then the board is gutless and right now the last thing we need is a gutless Baord to scared to do what it wants to do for fear of the protest.
It is possible also that a few board members pre-meeting, thought that the decision was over the line and then started leaking to others, got into the meeting last night, realised it wasn't "over the line".
ie They leaked too early when they should have held on

Agree with the points you have made on this issue. For me, the above is the main problem ... that the Board leak things to the press in half baked fashion, before decisions have actually been made and confmed, then come across as nervous nellies in the face of totally predictable public reaction.
Surely even blind deaf and dumb Freddy would not need to think very hard to realise that he should expect exactly this reaction in the media, and from supporters?
I am not at all surprised that the majority of supporters ruinging the Club would be saying keep Pagan. As has been pointed out, the majority of supporters don't discuss all the issues related to training, match day tactics etc as they are on here.
In my opinion, Pagan needs to go, and that is more paramount than getting the "optimum" replacement, given that selection of an optimum replacement is likely to be highly subjective in any case. We have seen that Mitchell does have imagination and can develop young players, and communicate with them ... all of which, in my opinion, are major issues with Pagan's approach, and needing urgent redress.
Also, as someone else stated, the main issue with the payout would be that the $1.2M is most likely required up front rather than over the next 2 years (hence the Club needs cash up front, which we know they don't have), as well as some extra money required for any new football department coaches.