It might not have been pretty, but Allardyces teams are effective. I stand by it, you wouldn't have been relegated.
Relegated or not, he didn't belong here, just a very bad fit for the football club. I prefer giving people time but I know lads who stopped going despite having never missed a game since they were 6 years old.
Mind without his spell we'd have never had the classic line from Butt after an hour of Sams pre match chat team talk "Ok but what do you actually want us to do when we have the ball?" Most negative manager in our history bar none.