Just thinking about Hecky and brilliant job he's done since stepping up a few months back. Of course he deserves the job fulltime, but am wondering how he is seen by the other clubs and the wider football world? Would he be viewed as a desirable target? We know that his success so far, has largely been down to the particular continuity policies and circumstances within the club. Lee Johnson might have done the same, might not have. Will other clubs be very aware of this, or will they see Hecky as the man to solve all their woes? If we win on Sunday, he is certainly going to make the headlines and twitch the radars of some hopeless chuffs, not too far from here. This is a largely football based post.
I think we don't need to worry about him being poached as long as we're paying him right unless a real eye opening offer comes in and then fair play to him
Has he not got his original contract as coach ? Hecky will get head coach role full time in the summer no doubt. Tommy Wright needs some credit as well for the amazing turn around in our form since Xmas. Let's hope the journey continues on Sunday, I'm more nervous this time than the JPT.
Thanks for the footy based post. Rotherham have declared they are going to think carefully about their next appointment. Right fit / strategy / long term etc. I am sure they will have at least had a look at what Hecky has done. Leeds? Well you never know what they might do. They would certainly throw money at any man they considered to be the right choice (whether they have it or not). But I'm sure Hecky is wise enough to be thinking longer term than the massive club from Beeston. I assume they are the close clubs you are referring to? All we can do is look after him whilst letting him carry on with the work he has done. In which case, I think we will be fine.
I'm sure he's as ambitious like every other manager. He won't be jumping ship at the first sniff though, like Frodo Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The fans need someone to love, someone to hate, someone to credit for success and someone to blame for failure. The manager is that figurehead. He is there to be magnanimous in victory, and be sacked in defeat. But I am not sure that the world works like that. Ultimately, if the club has the best budget in the division, and has the patience to stay with a policy that is right until it matures, it will be successful. I do not believe in the cult of the manager. The club stuck with Johnson although most said he should go. That patience was rewarded, but it is interesting that Johnson was our first Chief Coach, and not manager. This indicates that his role was different to his predecessors. That part of the responsibility of the manager had been taken away and spread around the organisation. I believe that that element was player recruitment. In other words, the Chief Coach had been tasked with working with and getting the best out of the players brought to the club that fitted a profile within a policy. Players are being acquired to play 4-4-2, because that has been designated the system of choice. We have yet to find out whether the policy will succeed at a higher level, but It appears to be successful in the third tier, and will be successful in attracting new players when our current crop moves on. But the question was about Hecky, and not the team or the policies that the club is pursuing. Hecky should get the job of Chief Coach. If the club continues with its policies and is patient, the job will carry much more job security than the average as the figurehead of a football club. Hecky will eventually have a decision. What is more important, job security or pay, position and kudos. If the club is convinced that the role of Chief Coach is simply the position at the top of a complex and self supporting organisation comprising highly qualified and professional individuals all working together to produce performance on the pitch by the eleven chosen to play, and the top man is not as important within that structure, then the next Chief Coach will already be at the club.
If the success of our club continues, others may look to adopt a similar blueprint. At this moment I don't see any movement, either in or out, irrespective of what happens on Sunday.
It's got **** all to do with Hecky, lovely lad as he is. We only started winning when I started wearing my lucky socks.
Thing is with Hecky, nobody knows who he is. He was a temporary fix that came good, but an unknown. He has not done the managerial rounds, in and out of every club, so would you spend top money on a bloke from Barnsley who does not appear on the "big, I am, look at me" list. I'd even forgotten that he had played for us at the Millenium against Swansea, so little do I know of him or even remember. Let's keep him under wraps with us, nice and quiet, then when we do a Leicester City in a few years say oh yes, it was Hecky that did it !
No chance mate, it's my lucky red socks that made the difference. Trouble is, as I found when I took them off after the second Walsall game, they now have a hole in one of them. I'm still wearing them this Sunday though, so Hecky can relax, it'll be fine.
My lucky shirt has not been washed since we beat Blackpool at home. You'll be able to easily spot me sat in my own block at Wembley
one of Hecky's first comments after taking over from LJ I am not there to build a CV. I am here because i want to be. I am a barnsley lad, a barnsley fan and i want to manage barnsley. May not be word for word what he said but close. He wants to manage us - its his dream job! And the setup means that unless we go on a half season losing streak and it is clearly wrong he will go on to be the longest serving manager weve ever had. And that will be brilliant for all concerned. Long live Hecky! They will announce him as Head coach straight after the playoff final - win or lose.
Just picking up in something a mate told me about crossley. Who lives near him or summat. Crossley was asked by chesterfields hiararchy who he would appoint if he had the decision. Hecky was his choice apparently. Said he was by far the best coach he's ever worked with. And we know who crossley has worked with in his career. How true that is I'm unsure. But they went with the duo they have now.