15-01-2017, 14:29
1. If I were Gary Caldwell I wouldn't take the job. It's poison and so are we until DA sorts himself out.
2. If I were us and Caldwell hesitated over the job, I'd say "offer withdrawn, you don't want it enough".
3. I wouldn't listen to "the fans"; they are the denial of that book The Wisdom of Crowds, because like us, the facetweeters are a self-selecting bunch of odd-balls - they aren't the crowd anyway.
4. I'd get all the ex-players on the staff to get together over a very long lunch once a week to discuss nothing but football, the players, the club, the team and the way forward. (A civilised equivalent of the boot-room.)
5. I would not appoint a manager, but I'd give The Hump a rise till the end of the season.
My theory is that a moderate ex-player from outside is unlikely to come up with more good ideas than those already within the club were they given the freedom to express them and run with them. When you are failing it is the whole organisation which is failing - look at Rotherham, parachute Warnock in, he saves them, where are they now, back fighting relegation.
I've said it before, if you get a young centre forward like Ricky German, once a thug of a centre back like Morgan gets his maulers on him he'll progress backwards as he has. They might be the medic and the barman, but he'd be better hanging around with Roger Wylde and Bob Newton. If you have talent in your organisation you need to use it wherever it is located. And only appoint a new manager if you think he is more likely to win games than The Hump.
2. If I were us and Caldwell hesitated over the job, I'd say "offer withdrawn, you don't want it enough".
3. I wouldn't listen to "the fans"; they are the denial of that book The Wisdom of Crowds, because like us, the facetweeters are a self-selecting bunch of odd-balls - they aren't the crowd anyway.
4. I'd get all the ex-players on the staff to get together over a very long lunch once a week to discuss nothing but football, the players, the club, the team and the way forward. (A civilised equivalent of the boot-room.)
5. I would not appoint a manager, but I'd give The Hump a rise till the end of the season.
My theory is that a moderate ex-player from outside is unlikely to come up with more good ideas than those already within the club were they given the freedom to express them and run with them. When you are failing it is the whole organisation which is failing - look at Rotherham, parachute Warnock in, he saves them, where are they now, back fighting relegation.
I've said it before, if you get a young centre forward like Ricky German, once a thug of a centre back like Morgan gets his maulers on him he'll progress backwards as he has. They might be the medic and the barman, but he'd be better hanging around with Roger Wylde and Bob Newton. If you have talent in your organisation you need to use it wherever it is located. And only appoint a new manager if you think he is more likely to win games than The Hump.