Boardroom interference?

Talking to a guy at work today who knows an Oakwell member of staff and apparently a lot of the summer signings were not Danny's choice and the decision to sign them came from higher up the tree. He told him that Danny had a list of targets but he was told signings were already in the pipeline.

Now the guy i work with wouldn't tell me who he knows, I assume not to get him in bother. I take everything i get told with a pinch of salt but thought i would share it anyway. I couldn't ever imagine BFC being run like that but you never know in this day and age of the "modern game".

 

Well as soon as I started pushing him for who he knows, he got the sudden look of 'I've probably said enough already' look on his face.

 

That would be a very serious allegation in a club like ours, the idea of agents negotiating deals without the manager's knowledge with board execs is hard to believe. I'd expect Danny to resign if such were true.

 

Did he also say that America are covering up aliens, Prince Philip murdered Diana and that 911 was an inside job?

 

I'd be interested if we've managed to put in a scouting network this season seeing as we didn't have one under Hill & Flitcroft.

If not, where do the recommendations come from? And this statistical approach that has been mentioned a few times is a bit worrying IMHO.

Also, weren't Barry & Patrick involved when we signed Wallwork/Knight etc?

 

What about the Giant Leap for Mankind?

 

It does go on though. When spending a couple of hours in Super Johns company int summer. He spoke of both flying to Aberdeen himself (as a passenger, not pilot!) to secure the signing of Higgy and sell the club to him. But on the flip side, players were 'offered' and signed by the board who he'd not identified. Suppose it's the way of modern football.

 

Analytical not statistical. Bit of difference there methinks.

 

From memory, and not a quote, but Cryne says something like 'An approach that allowed us to identify the players that would get us close to 70 goals which usually gets teams to the Play Offs'.

So that to me is based on stats. We signed Berry/Hourihane/Hemmings/Winnall because they scored lots of goals last season. Not a bad thing, like, but the point remains - who decided we wanted them player to sign?

 

I reckon this excel approach is revolutionary. We put all the new and existing players in to column a, and then the goals they scored last season in to column b. At all times the starting XI has to add up to 70. So if we take off Winnall (lots of goals last year) we also need to take off Turnbull (no goals) and bring on Cole upfront and Lita in goal to keep us on 70. What could possibly go wrong. Plus we're saving money because they've found Martin Scott's old iPad and given it Hutchings so he can check the players on the pitch add up to 70 in real time.

I heard we were offered Ronaldo and Messi in the summer but had to turn them down because they exceeded 70 on their own, and we don't know how to unprotect the target goals cell.

 

Can we incorporate a vlookups and pivot table somewhere? I like vlookups and pivot tables.

 

I've always thought Excel was evil.

 

In the recent West Stand Bogs interview with Simon Davey he was asked who signed the players that arrived the week he became caretaker manager. He said that he didn't sign them.

 

Conditional formatting is the way forward

 

I seem to remember a dispute just before that, as Andy Ritchie was asked to sign Chris Luketti and Danny Cadamarteri (sp) despite not actually wanting to. Allegedly it was part of his downfall.

 

That's so 2005.