A manager's job is nigh on impossible these days, as Ange Postecoglou is finding out.
You can't say what you really want to say and using phrases like 'unacceptable' after a derby game are about as strong as you can probably go in public today. The stronger words are for the dressing room.
But he has used these terms before and you can't keep repeating yourself game after game, especially when you have lost 11 Premier League games by January.
Obviously the message is not getting across. As Ronnie Moran, our coach at Liverpool, used to say to us: 'This is the second time I've had to tell you, that means one thing, if you need telling again, you are not a Liverpool player and you won't be here very long.