Crystal Ball Time

[Old School]

Right, it's time to get out the crystal ball to see what the future may hold. We don't know yet whether we will be in L1 or L2 next season, but what we do know is that there has to be fundamental changes in some areas of the club. Carol has to be asking herself just how she swallowed the fantasies peddled by Flitcroft hook, line and sinker like a naive young girl, rather than giving him short shrift like the experienced successful businesswoman she actually is. Will Flitcrofts role be filled as is or will there be a critical review to determine exactly what is required? Whilst it has to be said that the infrastructure has improved since the Shanahans arrival there are many (myself included) that believe the balance between money spent on infrastructure and money spent on the football side of things was not right. It very much seems to be the case that Carol and Kevin do not have the money to fully fund everything at the club, so is it time for discreet enquiries to explore all the available options? It is far better to convince someone to come and join you, when you are keeping a large financial investment in the club, than it is to convince someone to take it off your hands when you are bailing out. One thing is for sure, even if we do manage to stay up but there are no changes we will almost certainly make it 3rd time unlucky by going down next season. 

Food for thought.

[NW9Valiant]

20 minutes ago, Old School said:

Carol has to be asking herself just how she swallowed the fantasies peddled by Flitcroft hook, line and sinker like a naive young girl, rather than giving him short shrift like the experienced successful businesswoman she actually is.

Rather unfortunate turn of phrase here, I don't agree with the wording. Pretty inappropriate and disrespectful IMO to refer to Carol like that. But yes, she absolutely could have been stronger in her dealing with his performance over the transfer windows.

21 minutes ago, Old School said:

Will Flitcrofts role be filled as is or will there be a critical review to determine exactly what is required? Whilst it has to be said that the infrastructure has improved since the Shanahans arrival there are many (myself included) that believe the balance between money spent on infrastructure and money spent on the football side of things was not right. It very much seems to be the case that Carol and Kevin do not have the money to fully fund everything at the club, so is it time for discreet enquiries to explore all the available options?

It's already been said by Matt Hancock iirc that they are not directly considering keeping the DoF model; rather something like a recruitment team working with the manager. 

22 minutes ago, Old School said:

It is far better to convince someone to come and join you, when you are keeping a large financial investment in the club, than it is to convince someone to take it off your hands when you are bailing out. One thing is for sure, even if we do manage to stay up but there are no changes we will almost certainly make it 3rd time unlucky by going down next season. 

Food for thought.

The 'Food for thought' with any restructure is contingency planning IMO; DoF models mitigate this in theory by having an identity and structure in place that informs recruitment across the playing and backroom staff. But we clearly didn't do this well with the manager appointment of Crosby (IMO) or the transfer window dealings.

I would largely go with the idea that the DoF model wasn't wrong, but the actual identity and structure it was going towards; was. The balance of investment and towards the playing squad (3 at the back, wing backs), just didn't fit for us. You could easily look at some of the playing acquisitions and reevaluate those and say some of those were definitely not right. Not just lack of wingbacks or strikers, but not retaining Benning and Pett who would definitely prove useful at the moment.

And in terms of what other spends and investments the club has made, I'd be questioning the wisdom of things like the scoreboard, separate changing rooms, but lack of toilet facilities. The investment in the football instructor accounts differently with FFP I think, but I don't think we were necessarily in any danger. I reckon what the club needs is to have different people in charge of the recruiting side vs the investment / revenue generating side. 

 

[Gungho_ED]

I've just looked in my crystal ball and i've had a message come through from the other side.

Has anyone lost somebody by the name of Nan? 

[Heatwave]

I don't have crystal balls so I can't see what's coming.

[Lornelounger]

I had a teacher called Glasscock once, and we often wondered whether he had crystal balls.

[Hoppers]

1 hour ago, Heatwave said:

I don't have crystal balls so I can't see what's coming.

yer dirty dog 🐕‍🦺🐕‍🦺💗💗