To be fair to AN, he lost Harrop (season) and Maguire (around 6 months) straight away and I am sure we suffered another major injury around that time but I cannot remember who it was (Clarke?).Well it was and how he changed things after it was mentioned Billy Davies had 2 teams in the top 6.
Who knows what will happen this coming season, if the form continues as it has been then there's a good chance we'll be as low down as we were under Simpson.
We lost 4 of the first 9 under Simpson in that following season, in 18/19 under Neil we lost 6 of the first 9. And that was the back of a 7th place finish the previous season with the same manager.