The lack of any link between the recruitment team and the HC was never more so exposed than it was in the summer and that includes Hecky's time at the club .
Firstly Conway is on the record as saying that they recruited Stendel because his style of play was something they wished to see at Oakwell , the high press , his win record at Hanover greatly enhanced his chances too no doubt .
Anyone who even remotely knows his football knows that the high press style of play is only successful if it has a rock solid defence , Liverpool have risen to the top of the pile not because of Salah or Mane but because they recruited Van Diijk and Alisson .
Stendel inherited a good back four and a goalkeeper who possibly had his best season at the club in Davies .
We conceded the lowest number of goals in the entire football league bar one club and at one stage we reeled off 7 successive clean sheets .
Plenty of plaudits for Moore , Woodrow , Mowatt and Jacob Brown but the back four and the goalkeeper got us automatic promotion because they took significant weight off the rest of the team .
So having identified a style of football , a coach who manages it successfully it stands to sense you'd recruit in a fashion that ensures this style of football can deliver the necessary results .
The lack of quality defensively throws that whole style of football under a bus and Stendel with it , total lack of cohesion between recruitment and HC , not even on the same page .
If the recruitment team understood what the HC requires to play the style the club itself identified then you'd probably have half a chance .
It was fairly obvious that Pinnock and Lindsay would be hard to replace given the understanding they had together , it was bizarre that they thought they could be replaced from minor leagues in europe and Leeds United's development squad .
The smart move was to play the percentages and recruit some older experienced players to replace them , we'd probably still be fighting relegation but we'd be far more competitive in that fight .
As it stands we have absolutely zero chance of avoiding the drop whilst shipping on average two goals per game , not a prayer and the thing is despite 3 HC's this season and heading towards the fag end of November there isn't a sniff of any improvement .