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The motivation thing feels more like a symptom than a cause, given that the reason we've nothing to play for is that we've not been getting results for months.

I'm not convinced it makes it much better (I also don't really buy the differentiation, but that's semantics really). I don't mean that in a "he doesn't want to be here, he should f*** off" way. I mean that it's pretty much management 101 to not admit that something doesn't matter as much...

No. Partly because I like to give the guy some credit - his spoken English is clearly good even if he occasionally leans on an interpreter to understand the question properly, and partly because he uses the word "confidence" correctly about a minute later in the same interview.

That attitude probably did help those teams get out of those runs though (or at least dig out some draws when they were needed). I'm pretty ambivalent about the whole manager thing, but I'll be a bit disappointed if they don't manage to pick themselves up to some degree before the end of this...

Yeah, but at least the flower beds will be sorted out by the time his contract runs out.