I think he's taking the "them vs us" culture to the extreme and is trying to turn the players against the club's own supporters. Look at the quotes from Mick on the club's own Twitter feed. Quotes such as "the players and staff have to stick together" and apologising to the players that his presence is causing the negative atmosphere. Clearly trying to make supporters the scapegoats and clearly not the way to manage a football club.
Mick needs to be sacked now. If we had an owner with a spine and a scrap of dignity and ambition, he would have done this a lot sooner, as far back as last season when we narrowly avoided relegation by four points. If the board are intending to announce Mick isn't getting a new contract in two weeks time, they should just get it over with and put Mick and the supporters out of our misery and part ways now.
As for the game, I didn't see it and didn't bother following it. In the end, I'm not surprised we lost after the successful formation was changed and several new faces were brought in. Almost a completely new midfield, beggars belief! It is almost as if Mick wanted us to lose to prove a point!