So long Stale Solbakken, thanks for the memories

Now if I could only recall what some of those memories might be...

Yes it's fair to say it's been a pretty forgettable six months on the Norwegian's watch, with Molineux witnessing some of the dullest matches in our recent history.

Occasionally there was a game to lighten the heavy gloom which has surrounded our club for what seems like a very long time now.

We played some scintillating stuff against the mighty Barnsley, thumped the Barcelona of the Championship - Bristol City - on their own patch and had at the very least equal billing in a 3-3 thriller against world-beaters Brighton.

Apart from that though excitement has been in desperately short supply as Solbakken tried and miserably failed to stamp his authority.

But was it ever going to be any other way?

The Norwegian arrived with a mixed reputation, with glass-half-empty fans concerned at his disastrous failure in Germany with Cologne, while the positive among us were buoyed by his prolonged title-winning success with Copenhagen.

We were told he was a disciplinarian, but also a good man-manager who liked attractive football.

It was clear that whatever Solbakken was, he was no Mick McCarthy and a bold, brave new world was about to be introduced.

The football would be technique and possession based, the players skilful and creative rather than hard-working but limited, and the backroom staff foreign.

But he would have to introduce this new style without arguably our best four players of the past few seasons (Steven Fletcher, Matt Jarvis and Michael Kightly were sold and Wayne Hennessey out injured).

And he'd have to somehow lift the club out of a very deep slumber, with players and fans utterly demoralised by a catastrophic and embarrassing relegation without a whimper last year.

In short his remit was to change the whole culture of the club, in a country he'd never managed before.

As it transpired he'd have six months to do it.

The decision to sack him now is short-termism at its very worst and makes a mockery of the noises coming from the hierarchy when Solbakken was appointed just a few months ago.

Morgan talked of a "fresh, new approach" for the club and said Solbakken "absolutely" did not have to win promotion this season, suggesting the new manager would be given time to implement his methods.

He also stressed Wolves were not a "hire and fire" club, a statement which rings very hollow as the chairman now looks to appoint our fourth manager in 11 months.

Solbakken is certainly not indefensible when analysing his brief tenure.

The football played, while encouraging and attractive in bursts, was generally boring to watch, he had no 'plan B' when things went wrong and despite sitting through the agony of watching every single game from last season on DVD he failed to address our biggest weakness - a porous defence.

But the players at his disposal simply weren't the ones he wanted and/or needed to implement his huge changes, so what chance did he have?

The majority clearly were unable - or unwilling - to work on his wavelength and he needed at least 18 months to clear out the deadwood and start afresh.

They looked clueless and confused about what they were being asked to do and Solbakken probably underestimated how demoralised they were after relegation.

The signings he did bring in were promising, with Bakary Sako one of the brightest and most creative talents in the division and Bjorn Sigurdarson, Tongo Doumbia and Slawomir Peszko excellent in patches, but with little support from the rest of the team.

There were reports of spats and of the players questioning Solbakken's methods, suggesting he had lost the dressing room.

Well it was never his to begin with - this was and remains Mick McCarthy's dressing room and when Solbakken took away the need for a relentless work ethic from them, they looked distinctly ordinary on the field.

Some of their performances have been nothing short of disgraceful in the past few weeks - we know what they're capable of, whatever style of football they're playing, but to not put the required effort in is unforgivable.

The solution was to have a mass clearout and start all over again, but Morgan saw things differently and as is the fashion these days went for the manager's head first instead of giving him time to see the job through in the way he intended.

We may mock the likes of Chelsea, Blackburn and Nottingham Forest for having owners who appear to known little about football management, but are we any better off?

The vision he saw in Solbakken could have taken years to bear fruit - look at Swansea, they needed half a decade to perfect their style.

This was our chance to modernise the club, to set the foundations for long term success in the top flight playing a pure form of the game.

Of course not every manager will 'get it right' simply by being given more time, but Solbakken's prolonged success at Copenhagen suggested he could have finished the job - indeed it was a coup to attract him to English football's second tier in the first place.

We'll never know if that was the case and attention now switches to the boardroom where we must ask ourselves what on earth is happening.

Morgan, on holiday when he sacked Mick, was at least in the country for this sacking but still did it on the phone, if reports are to be believed.

It's another PR gaffe from the chairman who less than a year ago was storming into the holy grail of the dressing room for a dressing down after a defeat by, of course, Liverpool.

The man who appointed Terry Connor as the "best man" (Moxey's words this time) for the job in February is looking increasingly clueless when it comes to making football decisions but he will have to get his next one right if we're not to get stuck in the Championship wilderness - or worse - for years to come.

The history books will record Solbakken as a failure of Jozef Venglos proportions - statistically his record was certainly very poor.

But what they won't show is that Solbakken had a near impossible task in managing the egos of the stubborn players who simply wouldn't work for him, while placating a chairman who had little patience or belief in his ideas.

Let's hope they deign to give the new manager those basic privileges.