I used to hold and I'd defend anyone's right to be unrelentingly...

I used to hold and I'd defend anyone's right to be unrelentingly negative here. Dargues was a complete disaster and uniquely in my experience a good cross-section of informed posters identified that based on a little empirical evidence (not just sentiment or instinct) when Clifford and the Board seemed unable to do so. Those posters were completely and utterly vindicated.

Going back to most experts' view that success is more a function of competent leadership than resource, one has to be sure of a turn-around in that area to be optimistic rather than reprising what's under the ground.