02-11-2016, 14:27
To be fair Pooch when things go wrong on the field it is the whole team gets it wrong - if you don't score it isn't only the forwards ..... everyone hasn't scored; when you concede, that goal counts against everyone, it isn't just the defence. In the same way failing clubs tend to sack one man - the manager - but his is just one of the many failures on show. Football clubs are one of the few kinds of organisation with a ready measure of their success ...... genuine league tables. When you are bottom you really are a shit club, you're not just a good club with a dodgy manager. If a school gets only five students through GCSE English nobody thinks it's a great school with a rubbish head - they think it is a shit school and hope their children don't end up there.
Danny is failing, Saunders failed, Sheridan failed and Paul Cook left before he was asked to leap the same chasm that the whole club habitually dynamites in front of its managers. A behaviourist would look at our last ten years and conclude that this is how the club wants it to be; after all relegation, the sometimes successful fights against it , sackings of managers, success in a lower division, the excitement of a promotion season all provide rewards in their own way. Suppose we hovered between ninth and twelfth in Division One every season ...... how would fans react, the players, the staff everyone? Danny is part of the process that's all. If Mr Allen wanted it for the club he could provide all sorts of incentives to avoid relegation and reinvigorate the team - I don't blame him for not wanting to ...... but SpireiteMatt is right, in the long-term changing managers will make no difference. Even if we appoint a saviour we'll be looking for ways to make him our next wicker man.
Danny is failing, Saunders failed, Sheridan failed and Paul Cook left before he was asked to leap the same chasm that the whole club habitually dynamites in front of its managers. A behaviourist would look at our last ten years and conclude that this is how the club wants it to be; after all relegation, the sometimes successful fights against it , sackings of managers, success in a lower division, the excitement of a promotion season all provide rewards in their own way. Suppose we hovered between ninth and twelfth in Division One every season ...... how would fans react, the players, the staff everyone? Danny is part of the process that's all. If Mr Allen wanted it for the club he could provide all sorts of incentives to avoid relegation and reinvigorate the team - I don't blame him for not wanting to ...... but SpireiteMatt is right, in the long-term changing managers will make no difference. Even if we appoint a saviour we'll be looking for ways to make him our next wicker man.