13-05-2015, 17:55
He did some event at the ground fairly recently and obviously did some very effective glad-handing, or should that be networking?
He's a man I'd have expected to have some success in management, but so far he's had much more failure. But there's no way this is a rush. Chris Turner is far too machiavellian for that. To be this quick Saunders was a done deal the moment Paul Cook became a done-deal ...... dontcha think?
Significantly Turner still released players before Saunders was installed ....... and he must have known the situation.
It might be worth worrying about Mr Saunders in a parallel universe in which Chris Turner didn't exist. But the reality will concern how good a job Mr Saunders can do within the parameters Mr Turner draws for him. And it could just be that those constraints make him a better, more successful manager than ever before. He's already said one apparently good thing - that he's inheriting a strong squad. I hope his job is to add to it, but there's no doubt he's facing a tough job, because I imagine his arrival will coincide with some of our team wanting out. Morsy and Clucas would fetch in money we need and Mr Turner holds our purse strings.
We're looking at a strange season, so soon after an excellent one. I'd never have predicted Saunders arrival, though looking at our website's rave over his talk, perhaps I should've been picking up the secret messages. Still tomorrow we might find out we're signing Jamie Ward and Leon Clarke to play up front and optimism would burst out all over Whttington Moor.
He's a man I'd have expected to have some success in management, but so far he's had much more failure. But there's no way this is a rush. Chris Turner is far too machiavellian for that. To be this quick Saunders was a done deal the moment Paul Cook became a done-deal ...... dontcha think?
Significantly Turner still released players before Saunders was installed ....... and he must have known the situation.
It might be worth worrying about Mr Saunders in a parallel universe in which Chris Turner didn't exist. But the reality will concern how good a job Mr Saunders can do within the parameters Mr Turner draws for him. And it could just be that those constraints make him a better, more successful manager than ever before. He's already said one apparently good thing - that he's inheriting a strong squad. I hope his job is to add to it, but there's no doubt he's facing a tough job, because I imagine his arrival will coincide with some of our team wanting out. Morsy and Clucas would fetch in money we need and Mr Turner holds our purse strings.
We're looking at a strange season, so soon after an excellent one. I'd never have predicted Saunders arrival, though looking at our website's rave over his talk, perhaps I should've been picking up the secret messages. Still tomorrow we might find out we're signing Jamie Ward and Leon Clarke to play up front and optimism would burst out all over Whttington Moor.