FlipFlop reacts to sacking. *photo courtesy of Beano*
Chippers' comment on Twitter was very interesting:
It’s often sad when a manager leaves a club. Often, but not always...
Maybe not getting rid, but certainly cutting their cloth accordingly. Three seasons of top-three budgets and nothing to show for it.
This season for the Stags seemed a bit like that year Trew threw money at Curle to get us out of L1, when we missed out on the playoffs on goal difference. He cut the budget the next year and then replaced Curle with Kiwomya, saying similar things about how talented a coach he was. The rest is history.
Does seem monies too tight to mention for next season.
Seems they threw their money about, gave it a good shot but came up just short.
Radfords simply seeing red.
Sacking Flitcroft would obviously have been a bit like Notts sacking Nolan after our play off failure. Call it madness if you like, but with the benefit of hindsight, we would have been better off doing that then recruiting without any pressure and letting the new man build his own squad.
The big but with this is making the Kiwomya type appointment that followed. For that reason, I don't think it was a brave decision, more like a financial one. Bet on them for relegation next year when they can't afford their loanees from their Red mates. It's the kind of thing Elite would do and then we all wish we'd done the same by January.