Quote Originally Posted by animallittle3 View Post
It's said the club moved to it's present recruitment policy after the club were last relegated under Danny Wilson in 2014 .

The story goes that Pat Cryne came in to the dressing room before the game against Notts Forest and did a Churchillian speech to rouse the troops .

What he received back according to legend were blank looks , players yawning and Dead Fish Eyes attitudes .

Fair enough , it would be enough to change my way of recruiting too if I'd entered the dressing room and left bewildered and saddened by that reaction .

The thing is we seem to have the same problem today , it's just the group is younger .


Passionless and lack of fight were in evidence at the City Ground on tuesday evening , our game in hand and an opportunity to lift ourselves out of the drop zone with two games to go , you might say if you can't get motivated for a game of this importance then why are you even playing pro football ?

Where's your pride ?

Your responsibility to yourself , the club and the fans ?

This isn't a pro Hecky post because he's got a hand in our demise too but the players short of ability as they were never jacked it up for him as I ever read or saw myself .

The appointment of the new HC seems to have taken the club back 4 years and destroyed the spirit within 12 weeks .

Things seem to have come to a head as they did 4 years ago against the very same club , a line in the sand moment in my opinion .

Danny Wilson lost the dressing room and this guy has too .

My point is this , unless the HC commands respect , isn't continuously undermined by the suits upstairs and has a solid record and methods on the training field then any plan you roll out will fail with the players of today .

The HC character and role needs to change and he needs more control , he's the man , not Billy Beane and certainly not Goat Hair or James Cryne .

He tells them what he wants , what needs to happen , who he brings in etc etc , he lives and he dies by that narrative .

The ownership have bought the club in my opinion based on the plan , but for christ's sake if it's to continue then let's have someone with the right credentials to deliver it .

League one presents an opportunity to take stock , learn some lessons , the plan's got merits but needs changes too or it fails .

Let's have Beane and his team replaced by people with a solid football background , let's give a HC more control , solid background that commands respect and one or two experienced pro's the younger one's can look up to .

If this doesn't happen over the summer then I fear for our ability to compete successfully in league one .
Just a few points Animal.I never saw the fight for Hecky when we went 1 win in 20 games.As for behind the scenes we have a 3 man British recruitment staff,a director of finance and a board of very wealthy men who I'm sure will work day and night to get us back to the championship if we go down and to push us further up the league if we survive.As for the January window this board backed Hecky to the tune of 7 players.I don't buy into the ones that have worked were picked by Paul and the ones that haven't were picked by the club.Just remember what P.H said in a Radio Sheffield interview."I sign the players I want.If the board signed players I didn't want they would be wasting there money because I wouldn't play them"