15-02-2018, 19:29
The agenda of those running the club is inscrutable. I'm not even sure there is an agenda - it might be random-select day to day.
If avoiding relegation were our priority we'd have been bringing in players early in the transfer window, not minimising our outlay until its dying few minutes. Forest Green recruited early and have won their last four home games. We had a choice between cheap and salvation. We chose cheap.
The trouble with managers is if you choose a learner you have to let him learn and back him, if you choose an old hand he might have run all his races and be on the way down himself, whatever you do. If you can't afford a manager who is currently successful, then there is an element of rolling the dice even for a well-run club. And we aren't.
One of my top proposals would be to get rid of Tommy Wright .......... but hey ho.
Only the high regard in which he is held by the fans is likely to save Jack Lester. Luckily that regard is more recent than it was for Danny Wilson, who in my opinion made a much bigger impact on the pitch for the club than a nice player like Jack. Nobody combined skill and on-field commitment during my lifetime more than Danny. Dear Albert Holmes had both the skill and the attitude. Good to hear he still radiates fitness. Wingers had to catch a bus to get round Albert's thigh muscles.
I hope Jack stays, is backed to stay and is allowed to plan get us back into the league. He'd be a hero forever. Giving him a shop-soiled, impossible job wasn't much of a reward for the regard in which he was held. Sacking him from that impossible job would be a disgrace. But football's never been beyond amazing disgrace.
If avoiding relegation were our priority we'd have been bringing in players early in the transfer window, not minimising our outlay until its dying few minutes. Forest Green recruited early and have won their last four home games. We had a choice between cheap and salvation. We chose cheap.
The trouble with managers is if you choose a learner you have to let him learn and back him, if you choose an old hand he might have run all his races and be on the way down himself, whatever you do. If you can't afford a manager who is currently successful, then there is an element of rolling the dice even for a well-run club. And we aren't.
One of my top proposals would be to get rid of Tommy Wright .......... but hey ho.
Only the high regard in which he is held by the fans is likely to save Jack Lester. Luckily that regard is more recent than it was for Danny Wilson, who in my opinion made a much bigger impact on the pitch for the club than a nice player like Jack. Nobody combined skill and on-field commitment during my lifetime more than Danny. Dear Albert Holmes had both the skill and the attitude. Good to hear he still radiates fitness. Wingers had to catch a bus to get round Albert's thigh muscles.
I hope Jack stays, is backed to stay and is allowed to plan get us back into the league. He'd be a hero forever. Giving him a shop-soiled, impossible job wasn't much of a reward for the regard in which he was held. Sacking him from that impossible job would be a disgrace. But football's never been beyond amazing disgrace.