PB preached consistent improvements, every single year. I’d imagine the board weren’t exactly impressed by watching that championship side slovenly being shoved into another premier league season by lesser opposition (Cardiff).
In fairness, he talked of CH being at the helm of all of this so...
Hearing Paul Barber speak on this when asked almost the same question in January; no. He stated that the board were delighted with CH (we were on course for 10th at this point) and his only target was to continually improve on performance year-on-year (points or position). On paper, CH failed...