Good post oldblade ,but i'll repeat it again,its just my opinion.We were a newly promoted side and our wage bill was less than the vast majority of our competitors, and yet we got 38 points - the same as the team that finished one place above us. We went down on goal difference.
We competed in some very entertaining matches that season and won matches that we were probably expected to lose as well as losing some matches that we might have expected to win.
We had a bad run after opening up a substantial cushion. But if you look at the fixtures we had during that bad run it was obvious we would need that cushion. We would not really have been expected to get many points from those matches.
I think 'inept' when describing Warnock's tactics is an exaggeration. We were probably a little too negative away from home, but then had we been more adventurous we may have received far more heavier defeats. That is something we can discuss but will never ever know for sure.
A manager who puts together a side that gets 38 points in the premier league on a lower wage bill than nearly all it's competitors and then only gets relegated on goal difference is not 'inept'.
In my opinion we were probably undone as much by individual errors in the matches at home to Everton and Portsmouth as by any allegedly poor tactical judgements by our manager.
He could have been inept pure and simply because he hasn't had enough experience at the top level,a bit amateurish at the top,both these things fall under the word i use.