I think you being eight inches or more taller than Jack might make confronting him less scary, Dancing ........
I'm glad Jack espouses strong views, even when I'm sure he's getting it wrong. I'm less convinced when he seems to bow to pressure and tries different ways of playing. His actions seem less certain than his words.
This is the point at which a properly organised, capable club would be calling Jack in for a chat and telling him and meaning it, that he'll be manager next season, that he will be expected to plan for either relegation, or salvation, that he will have a budget to get us back up, or whatever, that our eventual aim is Division One at least .............. That sort of stuff. Unfortunately a club capable of formulating those thoughts, planning and implementing those plans, raising finance and spending it and COMMUNICATING both internally and externally almost certainly wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.
I expected Jack to make mistakes. I always thought his job was next to impossible. I'd like to think he's human enough to sympathise with fans' disquiet, even anger. One of his problems is he has spent his entire adult life as a pro', that educates people into a very blinkered way of thinking and very limited, conservative solutions, especially when the going gets tough. Jack is almost bound to return to known patterns and one of those is that CO'G will make space and opportunities for KD - but it doesn't happen, so his default setting is KD on his own. Ricky German keeps soiling the carpet somehow, Zavon Hines is in the book as a disappointment, Gozie isn't there yet. Young Dylan didn't grab his chance. Amantchi and Rawson are too young to be in the book yet ...... He's got a kid from Barnsley, but Tommy's recommendations have been fairly pants. So Jack's stuck with conservative solutions that won't work the oracle and being human he sometimes sees what he's hoping to see. If he's looking to attack, then it's no surprise our attacks loom largest in his memory.
My hope is that someone has the guts to get Jack to look again at players he has cast as discards. If tinkering with the mechanism doesn't work, maybe he needs to go for a more radical re-build. It seems the same both ends of the pitch problem we've had since early last season - we have to look as though we are likely to score AND as though we could also prevent the opposition scoring. It's simple. We never manage both and rarely achieve either. So teams beat us because they think they can.
As for Albert Holmes, if he's still walking and talking independently, Jack should have brought him in for a chat with all the defenders in the club. If he could have communicated any of his desire to win the ball when things looked desperate, his solidity and commitment, his sheer professionalism, the way he trotted out looking twice as fit and quick as any butcher's dog ......... he didn't need to try to make an impression on his winger, it was just inevitable ...... oh Albert, if only.
I'm glad Jack espouses strong views, even when I'm sure he's getting it wrong. I'm less convinced when he seems to bow to pressure and tries different ways of playing. His actions seem less certain than his words.
This is the point at which a properly organised, capable club would be calling Jack in for a chat and telling him and meaning it, that he'll be manager next season, that he will be expected to plan for either relegation, or salvation, that he will have a budget to get us back up, or whatever, that our eventual aim is Division One at least .............. That sort of stuff. Unfortunately a club capable of formulating those thoughts, planning and implementing those plans, raising finance and spending it and COMMUNICATING both internally and externally almost certainly wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.
I expected Jack to make mistakes. I always thought his job was next to impossible. I'd like to think he's human enough to sympathise with fans' disquiet, even anger. One of his problems is he has spent his entire adult life as a pro', that educates people into a very blinkered way of thinking and very limited, conservative solutions, especially when the going gets tough. Jack is almost bound to return to known patterns and one of those is that CO'G will make space and opportunities for KD - but it doesn't happen, so his default setting is KD on his own. Ricky German keeps soiling the carpet somehow, Zavon Hines is in the book as a disappointment, Gozie isn't there yet. Young Dylan didn't grab his chance. Amantchi and Rawson are too young to be in the book yet ...... He's got a kid from Barnsley, but Tommy's recommendations have been fairly pants. So Jack's stuck with conservative solutions that won't work the oracle and being human he sometimes sees what he's hoping to see. If he's looking to attack, then it's no surprise our attacks loom largest in his memory.
My hope is that someone has the guts to get Jack to look again at players he has cast as discards. If tinkering with the mechanism doesn't work, maybe he needs to go for a more radical re-build. It seems the same both ends of the pitch problem we've had since early last season - we have to look as though we are likely to score AND as though we could also prevent the opposition scoring. It's simple. We never manage both and rarely achieve either. So teams beat us because they think they can.
As for Albert Holmes, if he's still walking and talking independently, Jack should have brought him in for a chat with all the defenders in the club. If he could have communicated any of his desire to win the ball when things looked desperate, his solidity and commitment, his sheer professionalism, the way he trotted out looking twice as fit and quick as any butcher's dog ......... he didn't need to try to make an impression on his winger, it was just inevitable ...... oh Albert, if only.