IMO when a team is a a proper downward spiraling rut, that's where the manager earns his corn. The players will try and do anything and anything but nothing seems to work, because they are are really stuck. It's not for the want of trying, it's just never going to change. No matter what they do.
The hardest part is just stopping the downwards spiral, before even thinking about reversing it.
Unfortunately we haven't had that stability in management to do that. Frank inherited the beginning of it, but clearly lacks the know how of how to stop it. That's why I think Ang and the EL win might have been able to at least do that much, as there would have been a level of stability.
The only other opinion would have been to get a truly experienced manager at the beginning of the new season who could have dealt with reversing the rut.
It's not really about the players mentality, it's about leadership in Management. And we keep getting that fundamentally wrong again and again.
Tudor to his credit is supposed to be renowned for that specifically, so hopefully it works out and he can stop dive enough to secure our place in the Prem.
If TF came to the club were we were in a relatively good place, I'm sure he would have done well, but the board are stupid and vastly inexperienced to read where we actually were at the time, and appointed the wrong type of manager that was needed.
I don't think don't think most of the players have the wrong mentality, I just don't think they know how they should get out of this down spiral, none of them have probably ever experienced anything like it before in their careers.
