I'm kinda with the pig. It would make more sense to me to invest a bit, try to save the club, at worst have it fit and ready to go in non-league and then sell at a reasonable price ....... but the way DA operates seems to involve the deliberate creation and then partial resolution of chaos. I'd hate to work for him.
When you look at what happened to GC in the window, his raw recruits didn't get near saving us and he didn't gain one longer term player for the following season. In the following summer he had very little to build on - no wonder it fell down when he hit the random select button.
When we went for Jack we chose a manager with an eye to the long-term, surely we need to go with that policy now. We need young-ish players capable of rising to our level at least and/or be proven in non-league, who would form the basis of a team at whichever level we are playing next season. If they're committed and raring to go for us we'd have a chance of getting out of this. (I'm worried fan pressure might bring us some ageing 6-games-a-season jerk with half a name who quite likes warming the bench in the Championship or Division One.) We need lads who want to win and will fight to improve their standard. If that means we need some experienced old head to keep them together fair enough too. Alan Hansen may be famous for saying you never win anything with kids, but you don't send old men to fight a war either.
When you look at what happened to GC in the window, his raw recruits didn't get near saving us and he didn't gain one longer term player for the following season. In the following summer he had very little to build on - no wonder it fell down when he hit the random select button.
When we went for Jack we chose a manager with an eye to the long-term, surely we need to go with that policy now. We need young-ish players capable of rising to our level at least and/or be proven in non-league, who would form the basis of a team at whichever level we are playing next season. If they're committed and raring to go for us we'd have a chance of getting out of this. (I'm worried fan pressure might bring us some ageing 6-games-a-season jerk with half a name who quite likes warming the bench in the Championship or Division One.) We need lads who want to win and will fight to improve their standard. If that means we need some experienced old head to keep them together fair enough too. Alan Hansen may be famous for saying you never win anything with kids, but you don't send old men to fight a war either.