I don't care what he did elsewhere, I'd rather go on the fact that he has one of, if not, the best win percentage since Pele. You're argument about the league doesn't stand up... you manage the team you have, in the league they're in he can't do anything else but try and get the wins. No other teams will touch him because he's our manager... are you actually comparing to Butcher to Sir Alex Ferguson here? Have you asked yourself why a manager with decent calibre would come anywhere near ICT??
I'm not for a second suggesting he's the answer to all our problems but he is what we have and he's obviously doing all he can for ICT and at the moment a lot of what he's doing is working.
I don't buy into the "we live in a blame culture" boll0x but after reading your last sentence I see what they mean.
You have no idea what went on behind the scenes or what influenced Butcher's decisions at that time... it was his decision to make and he was obviously doing what he thought was neccesary to keep us in the division. If Tokely doesn't get caught on the wrong side of Higdon (?) then you would be kissing the ground he walked on for it being a piece of genius. We were relegated and he was incharge at the time but to say that it was his fault when we were in such a dire hole before he arrived is well off the mark
I get some of your points, just the thing is, I just don't rate the guy. I'm not the only feels that way (despite what you'd read off this forum), I feel that he doesn't play good football, seems a bit tactically naive and if he thinks Stratford is better than Vigurs, then there's something not right there. The point you make about him "not being touched because he's ICT manager" I think is an interesting one. What is a man of that footballing calibre doing here? To me that says quite a bit about his ability. You say you don't care how well he did elsewhere, but if you don't learn from the past then you're bound to repeat it and some of the traits he displayed here are almost identical to what he has done elsewhere. It might not seem like it just now, but I won't be surprised if it ends in a similar manner as well.