A Perfect Storm

[magpie_mania]

Exactly - any manager who can do that is quickly going to be off to a bigger club as they’re so hard to find.

This is why the head coach model is becoming so attractive to clubs. If they’re just one part of a successful structure rather than running the whole show, then they’re much easier to replace without huge upheaval if one either does so well that they’re poached or so badly that they’re sacked.

You really need a very strong set-up, hopefully we have that.

Do you think though that managers 'run the whole show'? Some might, some might think they do, and some Chairmen and women try to play the role.

A difficulty with this model is that you say they do badly so they are sacked. What happens though if the ones doing the other parts of the usual manager's role do badly.?

[jacobncfc]

You really need a very strong set-up, hopefully we have that.

Do you think though that managers 'run the whole show'? Some might, some might think they do, and some Chairmen and women try to play the role.

A difficulty with this model is that you say they do badly so they are sacked. What happens though if the ones doing the other parts of the usual manager's role do badly.?

Not everywhere. Some do, and I think the ones we were talking about earlier in the thread tend to fall into that category.

Everyone in the structure needs to have the same accountability as the manager does really. It’s hard to judge at Notts at the minute, because we don’t yet have a clear sense of who does what. We know that the owners/their company has had some input into transfers, but from the snippets we heard from NA that seemed to be more recommending people for him to look at and evaluating names he put forward rather than setting the whole strategy. I think we’ve seen the limits of the kind of blended approach we’ve gone for so far in the squad that we’ve ended up with, which feels like a messy amalgamation of players NA wanted and players the owners wanted, rather than anything coherent. Which is probably one of the reasons why we now have a head coach who seemingly shared the same philosophy as the owners.

What it’s currently missing really is someone in that sporting director role. I think Richard Montague seems to be the lead from Football Radar in the recruitment stuff, but that’s not the same role.