It is not even the rather dissatisfied and disgruntled side who had been sleepwalking towards the relegation zone under Neil Warnock a year later.
Averbuch's eyes are not quite closed, his lips are pursed in vague puzzlement, and he looks not dead but, rather, slightly disgruntled at the prospect of being woken.
Firms often pay off disgruntled accusers rather than go to court, since juries are unpredictable, damages can be steep and the publicity of a trial is always unwelcome.
There is no need for Froome to spell out why he wants his trusted friend Richie Porte, rather than a potentially disgruntled Wiggins, riding at his side.
She does not want, friends say, to define herself as a disgruntled, terminated editor rather than as the distinguished journalist she has unquestionably been.
Frank, not wholly surprisingly, attempts flight rather than fight when a disgruntled ice-cream vendor turns up at St Mimi's school packing a little more than a dozen orange Calippos.
You can, I suppose, admire the integrity of a centrist politician who preceded his speech with a briefing about how he would rather go without votes from disgruntled leftwingers.
Even Michael Palin got in on the act with a brief turn as an amiable colonel and supporter of the paper, gently telling a disgruntled subordinate: "I rather think the authors are aware [that war isn't funny] – I think that may be the point".
According to an e-mail exchange published Thursday on the Web site www.crikey.com.au, Mr. Restall wrote to the journalist, Eric Ellis, on Feb. 24, a day after the article was filed, saying, "I'm afraid I am getting cold feet on this one — I've just gotten a copy of the book, and it looks more like the work of a disgruntled ex-employee, rather than an analysis of the business".
