Hecky's Interview - Here

For anyone who hasn't come across the link in other threads.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05b0qnr

When asked about whether we're any closer to the 4 signings he said "You're asking the wrong person....people need to start getting busy".

 

I have not been to the game today, so I have nothing at all to say about it.

I have now listened to the interview with Hecky, twice, to make sure my ears were not hearing what I wanted them to hear. It has to be said that most of his criticism was for the team, and that is fair enough. He is after all team manager. What distressed me is the criticism of un-named persons that like himself are part of the off the field management team. The fact is, you do not publically criticise the other members of the management team. Such criticism is bound to create scores that need to be settled, and it is bound to create resentment and a poor working relationship behind the scenes. By all means, tell those people face to face about your complaints and your dissatisfaction, but you do that sort of thing privately, not on Radio Sheffield.

Hecky also said that he intended to use this (performance), and perhaps this was his first use. He is playing politics, he believes he has the power base to do so (the support of the fans). But politics is a dangerous game. It can blow up in your face at any moment. Hecky would be better advised to do his job to the best of his ability and use persuasion behind closed doors to get what he wants. Keith Hill was a master of turning pressure in the direction that he thought would do the most good, but in the end, it did for him. I would hate for Hecky to become another victim.

 

If ever we needed new owners it is now.

 

Thing is though, if they do sack him he could easily walk into another job. Maybe it's worth the risk?

 

I thought that, in previous interviews, he sounded quite down and depressed, but in this one it seems to have boiled up into anger. It cannot have been easy for him, wondering if he will have a team, or squad at all ready for the start of the season and his not having, by the sound of it, much control over which players are coming in. If he feels like that, it is bound to communicate itself to the players, along with any justifiable anger he expresses to them in the way individuals performed. Let's hope he can put out a side which can scrap for something at Ashton Gate next week. I agree with comments that say we will need to scrap hard early on in the season and, if we are still in touch by, say, November, the quality of the team may well start to show through with some quality coaching. Potential isn't enough to hit the ground running, so it will need a lot of will-power in August-October. I feel for Hecky. He did a great job with a settled team, but has now been asked to work a major miracle in advancing quality youngsters two divisions in no time at all. The only good thing is ..... he's the only manager I can think of who just may be able to do it. I hope the board are listening and will get him the players he needs in time.

 

What is bad practice at Barnsley is bad practice everywhere.

 

From his point of view, so be it, I'm sure. Perhaps he's tried all that text book stuff to no avail so he has to levarage all he has left.

 

Let's be honest. Making a new team is not easy. Not only do you have to pick the right players, but the blend has to work. Even if you get all that right, there are lots of different ways to play to game. It is a nightmare, and that it before we start on systems and what the opposition are doing. There is no doubt that we are probably 6 players short, but the transfer window does not close until 31 August. As I said back in May, I would not be surprised if we are in the bottom 4 at Christmas. Thereafter, I would hope that the team comes together and that we avoid relegation. The season will be a season of struggle, but there should be no need for a mass exodus come next May and I hope for better the season after.

 

If that is the case I would imagine Hecky would walk and show his displeasure at the situation.

This is the first time his managerial careers really suffered a downturn, but really we have been poor since January, however Hecky did intimate the players had left with his blessing as it fitted in with the plan. Surely he can't just then turn around and say it doesn't suit when things don't look so good later on when we have landed players that fit with the plan.

 

He probably expected to be able to shop at least in Aldi not be scrambling round the Rag and Louse Tuesday market in tarn.

 

He has not been offered the requisite support. He has been mentioning this obliquely for months. Clearly things were promised to him and not delivered. It's a little unlikely that he hasn't mentioned this privately but he clearly thinks he's getting nowhere.

Hecky would walk into another job and will be possibly better quitting before the **** show hits the fan. Very few other teams would think it's the right approach to sell off pretty much your entire first team and only replace half of them and even then with players who would be better being squad players rather than expected to perform as first team players. We need to replace quality and quantity on a tiny budget.

 

If we only have a tiny budget, then questions need to be asked has to where all the fecking money has gone in the last 12 months

 

It all depends how we are now structuring it based upon L1 income levels or including the extra income the championship brings. It is a given that transfer income will NOT be used to pay wages beyond this budget

 

unlike many previous seasons, we've had a big head start in knowing that we were neither going up nor down long before the end of the season. In light of this our predicament is even more disappointing

 

Or, and actually as it is unless Paul heckingbottom is a liar, he has tried for 18 months to say these things privately and yet these 'people' ignore him and make promises that thy fail to deliver on.at that point as a public facing figurehead of a public facing company unfortunately for those promising the earth and delivering Syria he has little choice but to state his complaint publicly.

 

I know the season hasn't kicked off yet, but it looks like the writing is on the wall.
The club is clearly (& to some degree understandably) in turmoil. CEO walked in January,
all senior players that are of decent championship quality sold, with the exception of Gus, the keeper & Yiadom, who looks likely to leave.
Owner & saviour with a terminal illness.
We have a very good young manager, who deserves support, but, who is clearly been expected to feed the 5000 with a couple of barm cakes & a packet of fish fingers. In Hecky we trust. Hope someone is listening.

 

Hecky refers to that - it was agreed in March/April they needed 12 players

 

What's most alarming though Red Rain is we've seen a number of occasions in the past where it's looked to me like Paul's been growing frustrated with the situation but has towed (toed?) the party line. The concern for me is that he's doing this now for two reasons - one, frustration at fellow members of the management just not listening to the message that he's been giving them, almost as a last resort - and two because he genuinely believes that we've not got the squad to compete and he's setting our expectations for struggle.

It's a worry innit.

 

No one thought that it would be easy to build a new team. I am someone who continually calls for patience from the fans. I was one of the few who was still supportive of Lee Johnson after the 9 defeats. I am not naturally patient but, in football, when all around us are spending money that they cannot afford, patience makes a lot of sense. I do not go from a position of the club policy makes sense, to a position where the club policy makes no sense, as some do dependent upon the latest reversal of fortune. I do not do that because I understand the reasons for the policy and I cannot see any alternative to it. If someone can think of one, then please produce a draft on here for us all to discuss, but no-one has done that so far. All that has happened is that posters complain when things do not go well.

Hecky has a forum for making his complaints public. He has a local radio station who are only too happy to broadcast his views. It is news. But what would be the situation if those behind the scenes at Oakwell who Hecky complains about demanded a right of reply on radio. If they took to the airwaves to tell the other side of the story, the side that is never told. I tell you what would happen. The club would seem to be in total disarray. It would seem like there was total disagreement from top to bottom. These disagreements are common in companies, but outside the boardroom, the participants to the disagreement keep things quiet, and disagreements are resolved, new policy is formed, changes are made where things are not working. That is what happens, and everyone walks away with pride and dignity in tact. What happens when disagreements are made public? Well usually, someone walks away from their job, that is what happens.

I do not know what is going on behind the scenes at Oakwell. I do not know the rights and wrongs because I do not know both sides of the story. I am not writing in judgement of the case either for or against. I am simply saying that Hecky is wrong to try to conduct his business in public, and my guess is that he has already been told that in private.

 

Was it wrong when barnsley1 ripped Brian Howard to pieces?

Was it wrong when a former chairman's son posted on here pretending to be an ordinary fan and made posts such as one where he claimed to have seen jay tabb at oakwell in order to convince fans to buy season tickets by pretending we were signing big name players?

Was it wrong when Patrick cryne was posting on Facebook negative things?

Or is it only wrong when it's the other way round?