Yes, indeed we failed to get promoted.
While it is an opinion, the fact that results improved under Doolan, an inexperienced manager, took an experienced manager's squad and got them so close, when under McCall we were clearly going in the wrong direction and his squad had downed tools on him.
Hiding behind the display at Ibrox, doesn't justify the argument for keeping McCall.
His dismissal was justified.
And as for relying on other teams results for us to get 4th. We didn't rely on other teams to do it, we got their with our own results.
We were losing and out of top 4, when we equalised and got 4th.
It isn't unusual in football that teams fail or succeed due to other teams results!