Yet another good man has bitten the dust, something I personally am very sad about. Nevertheless, the club must move on. Who will chose the next manager and what is his track record for success in choosing new managers? Don Rowing has skillfully distanced himself from Keith Hill over previous weeks in order to avoid contamination with the stench of his failure. He has held meetings with the fans to be sure he can direct their opinion away from restrictive budgets and tightly controlled pay structures in order to concentrate minds on the performance of the team under its current manager, convincing fans that funds were made available to the manager for signings. For the last 6 weeks of his reign, Keith Hill cut a lonely and dejected figure as he tried to cope alone in a sea of troubles, just as Simon Davey and Andy Ritchie did before him. They all looked like dead men walking. Only Mark Robins managed to escape before his spirit was destroyed. The answer to the question that I posed in the second paragraph is of course that Don Rowing will chose the next manager. He will do so even though he has failed consistently to chose someone who can bring success to the club in the past. He will chose even though he sets the policies that are the main factor in whether those managers will succeed or fail. He gets away with it because confidentiality agreements make sure that the fans never know the true reasons for the failure of manager after manager. Football stinks and the biggest victims are not the people who play in and manage in the game. It is us, the fans, because the only certainty about our next manager is that he will either be sacked, or he will leave us in a mess when he moves on to a better job. The last few weeks have left me both cynical and bitter about the game. Saturday evening left me sad for a good man, who did his best, but was eventually beaten by the system.
Insanity - doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results Ooops! Who said that when Keith Hill was appointed?
Why do you say Don Rowing will pick the next manager? He will have input but he isn't the one calling the shots...
Robins wasn't a failure. It may have ended on a sour note but in terms of league position he was not a failure. Oh and Hill may be a good man but he's proved he is a poor manager with his poor tactics, constant rotation of players yet somehow 'managing' to pick the worst defender at the club whenever he can. Football is a **** business, so is life, you just have to get on with it as best you can I'm afraid.
What system was Hill beaten by exactly? The results driven system that all clubs make decisions by. I liked Hill as a bloke but my faith in him had gone and he had to go in my opinion.
A "dejected figure as he tried to cope alone in a sea of troubles" my arse; he had his best mate Flicker right beside him the whole time and the players were certainly right behind him too, as were many of the supporters. Football is a mess, but not because of Don Rowing! Clubs who pay obscene wages to mediocre players, using tv money to line the pockets of prima donnas who have little or no loyalty to the fans are the ones ruining football. In Germany tv money is used to reduce admission prices for the fans and clubs are run in a far more financially fair way. In this country that money disappears into the pockets of players and agents. Don, trusted to do so by Cryne, is running the club on a shoestring and I don't blame him; you seem to think he's some kind of evil mafia boss deliberately sabotaging every manager's chance of success. He may be incompetent in many ways but trying to keep the club afloat in these circumstances is an incredibly difficult task...
