Spot on. This is the root cause of Saints problems. Either the Board has appointed a series of managers, since Strachan, who are actually inept, or the board have appointed a series of managers who cannot manage, given the actual scope of the job, and the environment, once they are in it.
Either way it's not the manager, but the Board.
How many manager do Saints have to appoint to prove they aren't allowed to manage as they can or want to? Or is the number of appointments since Strachan enough?