17-09-2017, 12:33
I think we have to pick a proper manager with a view to the long-term, not just someone we think might save us. If someone is heading us in the right direction we'd be in 22nd place or better by the end of the season.
The problem is we're like an abandoned pit where somebody has knocked out all the props. Even through changes in management in the past we've always been able to look at a small core of players capable of handling league football. Now I look at us and we've no-one. Even Tommy was out ?injured? again yesterday. Our hopes are youngsters who might all be too young to carry the burden. And we're full of loanees and the next window comes too late.
However good the manager we appoint, he'll need something viable to manage. Do we really have that? It might be good news for those whose careers Caldwell was in the process of destroying, like Mitchell and Brewster and the youngsters I think he simply wanted to forget, Wakefield, German and Rowley ........ But this a job for someone with real vision. We need much more than someone to rearrange the deckchairs and give the odd rousing team talk. The legacy of the dreadful recruitment of Saunders and Caldwell and the lack of investment in Danny and his own poor decision-making is a club and a team at the bottom because that is where it should be. On and off the pitch we are woeful.
I'd take a chance on The Hump, or Jack Lester or Kevin Davies or any combination of them. I wouldn't mind Llera, Marcus Law at Kettering, Powell yes Chris Powell fine. If Tim Sherwood came it would be the end of my life-long association with the club. Steve Cotterill would save us, but I don't think he'd be interested, and Grey Gray never has a man been so aptly-named, but he'd probably at least save us. But then so would Danny Wilson which will make Pooch splutter into his roast.
The problem is we're like an abandoned pit where somebody has knocked out all the props. Even through changes in management in the past we've always been able to look at a small core of players capable of handling league football. Now I look at us and we've no-one. Even Tommy was out ?injured? again yesterday. Our hopes are youngsters who might all be too young to carry the burden. And we're full of loanees and the next window comes too late.
However good the manager we appoint, he'll need something viable to manage. Do we really have that? It might be good news for those whose careers Caldwell was in the process of destroying, like Mitchell and Brewster and the youngsters I think he simply wanted to forget, Wakefield, German and Rowley ........ But this a job for someone with real vision. We need much more than someone to rearrange the deckchairs and give the odd rousing team talk. The legacy of the dreadful recruitment of Saunders and Caldwell and the lack of investment in Danny and his own poor decision-making is a club and a team at the bottom because that is where it should be. On and off the pitch we are woeful.
I'd take a chance on The Hump, or Jack Lester or Kevin Davies or any combination of them. I wouldn't mind Llera, Marcus Law at Kettering, Powell yes Chris Powell fine. If Tim Sherwood came it would be the end of my life-long association with the club. Steve Cotterill would save us, but I don't think he'd be interested, and Grey Gray never has a man been so aptly-named, but he'd probably at least save us. But then so would Danny Wilson which will make Pooch splutter into his roast.