09-01-2017, 14:47
Barnsley were transformed by not appointing a manager at all. And the manager who left with them at the bottom immediately saved a club from relegation in a higher division.
Sheff Utd and Leeds Utd, despite having more resources than their rivals in divisions in which they never should've been in the first place, have had multiple unsuccessful goes at finding a manager and neither has actually achieved the promotion yet that their supporters expect and deserve.
Scunthorpe have transformed under a manager who was failing at Fleetwood, where his replacement now has them challenging for promotion ......
Crystal Palace are continuing to lose under Big Sam. Swansea never looked like beating MANAGERLESS Hull in the Cup. Wigan and QPR are neither better nor worse for change. Wycombe have transformed from bottom of Division Two, to the promotion race by not-changing anything and having no money. Grimsby lost their "successful" manager to Shrewsbury and both clubs seem very much the same for the change .........
IMO the cult of the manager is largely inside players' and supporters' heads. Maybe one day we'll all grow up and realise there is no god. What we achieve we do ourselves, and when we fail it isn't one man's failure, it is collective.
We've treated a hero like shit, because that is what football does. We haven't resourced him and now the calendar has taken him to the point he might have recruited, we've sacked him. Can we do better? I don't know and find I've barely the energy, or patience to care.
I hope we give Ritchie the job, because I think he's a decent man who knows the game, but whoever gets the job he has to keep it if we go down. The one light at the end of this season's tunnel is the departure of the reprehensible Chris Morgan. Even Matt Duke has to be better than him ....... though the evidence provided by our keepers this season is hardly compelling.
Clearly the club recognised that Saturday's game is a must win for us. Sadly for Danny he can forever remember Bradford City as being doubly responsible for his exit from the managerial market (I fear forever). This season's defeat only finished off the groundwork laid by foolishly allowing idiots to play Tommy Lee there last season and thus condemn us to yet another relegation season without our keeper.
Chairman gone, manager sacked, his assistant, having maimed half the squad in training, gone too, debt to the former chairman our own sword of Damocles, some half-baked consortium vaguely interested in us ......... what else would we be but BLUE?
Sheff Utd and Leeds Utd, despite having more resources than their rivals in divisions in which they never should've been in the first place, have had multiple unsuccessful goes at finding a manager and neither has actually achieved the promotion yet that their supporters expect and deserve.
Scunthorpe have transformed under a manager who was failing at Fleetwood, where his replacement now has them challenging for promotion ......
Crystal Palace are continuing to lose under Big Sam. Swansea never looked like beating MANAGERLESS Hull in the Cup. Wigan and QPR are neither better nor worse for change. Wycombe have transformed from bottom of Division Two, to the promotion race by not-changing anything and having no money. Grimsby lost their "successful" manager to Shrewsbury and both clubs seem very much the same for the change .........
IMO the cult of the manager is largely inside players' and supporters' heads. Maybe one day we'll all grow up and realise there is no god. What we achieve we do ourselves, and when we fail it isn't one man's failure, it is collective.
We've treated a hero like shit, because that is what football does. We haven't resourced him and now the calendar has taken him to the point he might have recruited, we've sacked him. Can we do better? I don't know and find I've barely the energy, or patience to care.
I hope we give Ritchie the job, because I think he's a decent man who knows the game, but whoever gets the job he has to keep it if we go down. The one light at the end of this season's tunnel is the departure of the reprehensible Chris Morgan. Even Matt Duke has to be better than him ....... though the evidence provided by our keepers this season is hardly compelling.
Clearly the club recognised that Saturday's game is a must win for us. Sadly for Danny he can forever remember Bradford City as being doubly responsible for his exit from the managerial market (I fear forever). This season's defeat only finished off the groundwork laid by foolishly allowing idiots to play Tommy Lee there last season and thus condemn us to yet another relegation season without our keeper.
Chairman gone, manager sacked, his assistant, having maimed half the squad in training, gone too, debt to the former chairman our own sword of Damocles, some half-baked consortium vaguely interested in us ......... what else would we be but BLUE?
