VACANCY | HEAD OF ACADEMY COACHING Club News An exciting opportunity has arisen to become part of the team here at Oakwell as Head of Academy Coaching. Continue reading on the official site...
Why are we not getting the communication first, rather than guessing what's happening with the two job adverts?..
From the club website.. Academy Manager: Bobby Hassell Designated Safeguarding Officer: Shaun Selby Head of Academy Coaching: Martin Devaney Senior PDP Coach: Tom Harban
Interesting… Maybe Devaney is moving up to a spot as first team coach? I’d be surprised if he’s either going or being made manager.
6 essential 2 desirable 8 main tasks 14 specific tasks 9 person specification Not asking for much then just the 39 things
Just staggering. As a club, at just about every level, we seem too punch drunk to get basic things right. I'm sure we'd all naturally assume at least Devaney and Harban have been made aware of these job advertisements and what their futures are.
In Devaney's last interview he said all he was focused on was having a role at the club that was in and around the First Team and that it didn't need to be the Head Coach role. Surely this signals we're either layering more people in to our coaching setup, which has been criticised on here, to work with him. Or he's guaranteed a role within the First Team Setup like he's asked for.
I don't think these 2 positions are what you are suggesting. The Head of academy coaching is a role to uniform the coaching across all levels, isn't it? That was a role that Greg Miller (loud Scottish fella) did at one point. Not sure who was doing it after him. The others just a coaching role.
This is the problem though isn't it. Either or both could have been sacked, could have left of their own accord, been promoted, moved to new roles. Anything. The decisions have been made. The roles opened up. But instead of a simple statement, or just feeding the lines to the media to be released, the first things out in the public domain are job advertisements. It doesn't need to be made this difficult.