11-09-2018, 12:47
I always thought Danny had the most chance of keeping us up, because he knew the club and the problems doing anything at all. Caldwell had to learn the intricacies of that, recruit what he could at the end of a transfer window, inspire a failing team and introduce his new ideas (which turned out to be fairly inappropriate anyway). If Danny had to go and we did give him nearly two years, which is quite a long tenure these days and he did make mistakes which weren't all due to the budget, then The Hump would have been a better bet to save us IMO.
Pooch is right about budgets and guesswork. Everyone on Bob's seems to know who had what and how much we received for who ......... Yesterday we found out from MA that we got only £90,000 for Kristian Dennis. With Notts County on one point and him still struggling to play a full 90 minutes that is beginning now to look reasonable, but when Bradford City were after him in the previous window figures from £150,000 - £200,000 were in the air.
From the outside it looked as though Danny didn't get anywhere near the budget Deano had been wasting. Though both Jack Lester and Caldwell were complete failures it wasn't so much financial profligacy that was the problem as recruiting such rubbish that any price and any wage was too much. And to be fair O'Grady seems to have been more an expensive gift from our Owner that we had to pay for ourselves, than the choice of our manager. But all of that is guesswork ..... and that is one of the great problems with all clubs run like ours. Very little is open and transparent ..... and if for a moment it appears to be open, then we ALL question why that is and what's happening.
Pooch is right about budgets and guesswork. Everyone on Bob's seems to know who had what and how much we received for who ......... Yesterday we found out from MA that we got only £90,000 for Kristian Dennis. With Notts County on one point and him still struggling to play a full 90 minutes that is beginning now to look reasonable, but when Bradford City were after him in the previous window figures from £150,000 - £200,000 were in the air.
From the outside it looked as though Danny didn't get anywhere near the budget Deano had been wasting. Though both Jack Lester and Caldwell were complete failures it wasn't so much financial profligacy that was the problem as recruiting such rubbish that any price and any wage was too much. And to be fair O'Grady seems to have been more an expensive gift from our Owner that we had to pay for ourselves, than the choice of our manager. But all of that is guesswork ..... and that is one of the great problems with all clubs run like ours. Very little is open and transparent ..... and if for a moment it appears to be open, then we ALL question why that is and what's happening.