[Devongone]

I think Taylor was a good influence on Clough, but Clough could manage without Taylor whereas Taylor never succeeded alone.

Pooch, if an entire organisation makes bad decisions over a long period of time it isn't some manager/s a few rungs down the food chain, it is coming from the top. Danny didn't decide, "ooooh I'll ditch player development" after a thousand games as a manager of never doing that. It is simply unbelievable. He was obviously pressured into it. Some of GC's failings are almost certainly the result of the parameters within which he is forced to work.

Tony Wilson of Factory Records was a big football fan. He used to say as a boy you think the centre forward is most important man in your club, when you grow up you think it is the manager, only as you enter later life do you realise it was the Chairman all along. Pooch you're just a slow-developer in this area. You're still in the managerial stage.

Failing organisations create bad managerial decision-making. (And our organisation devolves on one man!)