Oh dear somebody comes along and makes a silk purse out of sow's ear and you want to tell us it was a silk purse all along. So why worship Jack then; everything was fine, it just needed patience ...........?
Truth? It's nonsense to worship Jack Lester as a genius/god for transforming our team and to hold onto the belief that they weren't that bad in the first place.
GC was signing professional players. They obviously weren't Hope Valley B Divisioners. It wasn't ever that they couldn't play individually at all. Even on random select you'd get hits as well as misses. It was that they couldn't combine successfully, because they collectively lacked some of the attributes usually needed for a successful team and some of the usual functions of a team had been neglected entirely during recruitment. Look for instance at a functioning Paul Cook team and compare it to what GC cobbled together. It wasn't that GC's bunch were a poorer version in a lower division; it was that there were whole aspects of both attack and defence visible in how Cook played which were entirely absent with Caldwell.
Pooch mate, much as I admire lots of things about you, the least you can do about humble pie is not to present it to Dancing, even if it is a Nigella of a pie you've been baking yourself since Danny's sacking. He was right from the very first moment Caldwell was mentioned in our managerial stakes, that his sole experience was inapplicable to Chesterfield, and would be a disaster. Had Jack Lester been appointed in summer to build his team I think Dancing would have been happy to try an untested manager, but in our desperate straits he wanted an experienced hand to try and save us! Coming out to praise Jack's revolution and say he under-estimated him is the honest act of a proper supporter in my eyes.
Bet Gary's had to engage a PA to deal with all the teams who want to win three games or fewer by the end of the season offering him managerial positions ........
Truth? It's nonsense to worship Jack Lester as a genius/god for transforming our team and to hold onto the belief that they weren't that bad in the first place.
GC was signing professional players. They obviously weren't Hope Valley B Divisioners. It wasn't ever that they couldn't play individually at all. Even on random select you'd get hits as well as misses. It was that they couldn't combine successfully, because they collectively lacked some of the attributes usually needed for a successful team and some of the usual functions of a team had been neglected entirely during recruitment. Look for instance at a functioning Paul Cook team and compare it to what GC cobbled together. It wasn't that GC's bunch were a poorer version in a lower division; it was that there were whole aspects of both attack and defence visible in how Cook played which were entirely absent with Caldwell.
Pooch mate, much as I admire lots of things about you, the least you can do about humble pie is not to present it to Dancing, even if it is a Nigella of a pie you've been baking yourself since Danny's sacking. He was right from the very first moment Caldwell was mentioned in our managerial stakes, that his sole experience was inapplicable to Chesterfield, and would be a disaster. Had Jack Lester been appointed in summer to build his team I think Dancing would have been happy to try an untested manager, but in our desperate straits he wanted an experienced hand to try and save us! Coming out to praise Jack's revolution and say he under-estimated him is the honest act of a proper supporter in my eyes.
Bet Gary's had to engage a PA to deal with all the teams who want to win three games or fewer by the end of the season offering him managerial positions ........