Jardine, who sat on the council for five years, said it was wrong to blame managers at the RI for the state of its finances.
Today we play the blame game; it's common to blame managers for every failure and to call them incompetent or corrupt.
Liverpool's £16m striker Mario Balotelli, 24, has blamed manager Brendan Rodgers's tactics for the fact he has scored just one goal since his arrival from AC Milan in the summer.
When Arsenal fell off a cliff this season the Premier League fans almost universally blamed manager Arsene Wenger at a time when some of his best players were not fit, a list that included Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshire, Theo Walcott, Mesut Ozil, and Laurent Koscielny.
Unions blame management for corruption; managers say the unions are inflexible.
State Department officials have blamed managers in the passport office, below the level of political appointees, who did not inform their superiors about the breaches.
A recent report on failing care for frail older people in hospital blamed managers and a lack of compassion among nurses.
People blame the manager, but you can't blame the manager for some of the things we've done, just missing the cutoff man, getting picked off, wrong pitches called.
Afterward, Santana would not blame his manager, but conceded he was out of sorts.
For once, the fans will not be able to blame the manager.
I blame the manager because it was a foolish decision to pick a midfield like that.
