Well done conor, mladen and the board

I can’t honestly believe that some of you think Collins & Clarke didn’t want a more active role in recruitment & dictating the style of play & were happy just to coach players & play 3-5-2.

For example early last season we saw Clarke try to play a back four numerous times & he came to the acceptance just like me & many others did that we didn’t have the personnel to play it & gave it up.

Hourihane tried it towards the end of last season & it made us even worse because we didn’t have the players to play it. He now has the players to play it & we look a decent side.

My way of looking at it is that Sormaz came under that much pressure & so many fans wanted him gone that he decided to put his trust in a manager as he realised he was making a right pigs ear of it.

We’ve seen no signings from abroad this summer, we’ve only seen players playing in this country signed. If you believe that Hourihane only has the same input as the previous managers then you have to believe that Sormaz has completely changed his style of recruitment from one window to the next. I don’t.

I’m delighted Hourihane is getting control. It should have happened under Collins & it should have happened under Clarke. I’ve no doubt that these two managers would have been able to recruit better with their football league experience & contacts in the game.

 

Do genuinely think that Sormaz was pulling the managers strings from the West Upper?

Personally I don’t but it’s each to there own

 

Not true.

 

Ok then please explain in detail who u would have kept sold and signed whilst balancing the books...yr never happy..its obvious the clubs decided to go for it and keep our best players. Our owner is obviously gonna help financially.
Jesus are u on the blob

 

Could have said no though

 

Going back to when James Cryne started up with his ‘data driven’ system of identifying targets
for recruitment, I thought the plan was in effect to identify a short list of player candidates from which the coach would then nominate the player(s) he preferred , or have I dreamt that? No doubt that changed in the years since but I believed the coaches position was still something similar. One of the supposed benefits being that there would be a continuity in the squad without the need for it to be overalled whenever a new coach was appointed.
I understood Conor to say he insisted on playing a leading if not the leading role in the player recruitment process before agreeing to become the permanent coach. I have been trying unsuccessfully to find Conor’s statement from just after the appointment was announced.

 

It's far from obvious the club has "decided to go for it." It's more likely that we didn't receive any credible bids for players and in the current market, our players didn't attract interest that was expected. I can't see any other reason why we'd have so many midfielders when we only play 3.

It was heading to the back end of the season where Parekh gave multiple interviews outlining he couldn't keep ploughing money in at the rate he was. Our expenses are double our income. I don't know how I can explain that any clearer to you. Generally, having a loss as high as your revenue... that's bad. That's really really bad. What everyone else is doing, that's irrelevant. Irrelevant in terms of our sustainability and existence at least.

I will forever look at our football club as survive financially first, and compete on the field second. Anyone else can use whatever argument they like to justify casino style gambling in the hope of promotion where the owners are further pushed by fans to keep spending. At some point, this will end. It always does. And crikey this has been a long time coming. But we're now into the upper echelons of wealthy owners, and even they are struggling to keep ploughing in billions. Something will give.

So yes, probably differently to others views, I would have been finance first and try and have some balance. I think the cost cutting (as long as they don't add more stupid buys on top) will take another couple of years to bottom out to a better more balanced squad. Til then, I'd be selling 1 to 2 players a year to try and cover the majority of losses. And after those few years, try and keep up a similar philosophy.

Recruit to the coaches needs. Recruit coaches to the style you want and back them, sensibly, but be open, like we used to do, that trading will happen and we need to bring in players we can develop and sell in future.

It's not that radical. It's pretty sensible really. Something that was common.

 

If you’re asking me do I think Sormaz was picking the team then the answers no. If you’re asking did they only recruit players to fit a 3-5-2 & barely involve the manager in recruitment then my answer would be yes.

 

Didn't Collins bring in pines as he knew him from the USA? That was the story at the time. Or are you saying those 2 head coaches had no say in recruitment?

 

^great post.