It's not irrelevant. In the attempt of avoiding answering the question, you've actually exposed the fact that your expectations have risen with the teams' success.
Therefore, the answer is 'no, you didn't'.
To be honest, 'the point' of any thread gets lost when it's driven by Grendel and Tony's pointless and childish feud. It does nothing other than diminish the validity of their input.
The point, yet again, is being missed.
Whether you call it a failure, or not...to suggest TM should be fired if we fail to get promoted in his first full season is short sighted....especially given the progress made from previous seasons.
When this formation has worked, it's been great...but it hasn't for a while. It has one more draw or loss in it, before it needs to be ripped up and burned...