GC for us had one of the worst records in managerial history and the absolute worst in our history. I felt he took the job at a dreadful point at which the only man with any chance of saving us had been the incumbent ........... but his performance suggested we could have logged on to Soccer Manager and given the job to any player who'd won a league on there. Doing the job worse than GC is almost inconceivable. Two of his three victories were achieved by pressing Random Select. Alan Partridge would have been a better choice and yet you still can't acquire a taste for some humble pie Pooch ....... you'd still have given him more time and left us seven or eight points behind Barnet ((( these brackets are me shaking my head in disbelief ))).
As for putting Jack in a manger, or on a donkey, let the man alone, to be himself and become whatever he can. So far he's doing brilliantly. He has all the skills needed to APPEAR the real deal, but Dean Saunders had quite a few of those too. But Saunders only seemed to be able to scatter his magic for limited periods of time. Doncaster and Wrexham both went top and both crashed and even we looked the part for a few games .......... To be the real deal Jack has to be capable of regularly reinventing the excitement and belief he is creating in his team and the fans, AND has to maintain that even when he brings in new players and starts dropping some of those who have improved under him. Pretending he's a god won't help when we hit a bad patch, believe he's a man capable of finding the right way forward by all means, but question him, always do that because that's the reason he's hit the ground running. Did he look like a player who swallowed every bit of BS a manager pushed at him, or did he look like a man viewing what was happening with a discerning eye? I'm sure Jack Lester was always a man to ask questions and he'll be asking himself questions right now.
All worship does for you is to make you stupid and lazy. I reckon asking questions of Jack Lester is much the better deal.
Just to be fair though I'll include what Tommy Lee said about Caldwell “what Gary Caldwell doesn’t know about football wasn’t worth knowing”. Though when you think about it Tommy played very few games under GC, is perhaps too nice for his own good, and was a goalkeeper in any case so most of the ollocks about tactical systems would have little bearing on his game. But the players certainly were verbally in favour of GC though that was never evidenced on the field of play.
As for putting Jack in a manger, or on a donkey, let the man alone, to be himself and become whatever he can. So far he's doing brilliantly. He has all the skills needed to APPEAR the real deal, but Dean Saunders had quite a few of those too. But Saunders only seemed to be able to scatter his magic for limited periods of time. Doncaster and Wrexham both went top and both crashed and even we looked the part for a few games .......... To be the real deal Jack has to be capable of regularly reinventing the excitement and belief he is creating in his team and the fans, AND has to maintain that even when he brings in new players and starts dropping some of those who have improved under him. Pretending he's a god won't help when we hit a bad patch, believe he's a man capable of finding the right way forward by all means, but question him, always do that because that's the reason he's hit the ground running. Did he look like a player who swallowed every bit of BS a manager pushed at him, or did he look like a man viewing what was happening with a discerning eye? I'm sure Jack Lester was always a man to ask questions and he'll be asking himself questions right now.
All worship does for you is to make you stupid and lazy. I reckon asking questions of Jack Lester is much the better deal.
Just to be fair though I'll include what Tommy Lee said about Caldwell “what Gary Caldwell doesn’t know about football wasn’t worth knowing”. Though when you think about it Tommy played very few games under GC, is perhaps too nice for his own good, and was a goalkeeper in any case so most of the ollocks about tactical systems would have little bearing on his game. But the players certainly were verbally in favour of GC though that was never evidenced on the field of play.