Lincoln

[MikeSB]

Mike, you really do need to drag yourself out of the 1950s/1960s. The size of these operations could not be managed by one person. The first team manager is responsible for the first team and nothing more. The various teams in the unders are managed separately by managers appointed by the board of directors and they are expected to work in a similar way to the first team manager to maintain continuity. Maybe you would prefer one man doing everything, but how sustainable do you think that would be? And where do you draw the line? Manager cutting the grass on the pitch every week? Serving the tea/coffee at the kiosk?

You say we have gone with the policy of appointing the same old faces. Well, I think it is the right way to go. Never mind the salary of the individual contrasted with bringing in an experienced lower league manager with no guarantee of success.
It would not surprise me if the Academy has saved us more than it has cost us over the duration of its existence because we will have had fewer players on (relatively) big wages, which will have given us a n element of freedom to bring in some decent quality players on a slightly higher wage.
Because of the way we do things I am confident we will have a club to support for the remainder of my lifetime and beyond. It may not ever be challenging for the Premiership (no bad thing in my opinion), we may struggle to even get to the championship. But that doesn't mean we won't see some good football and some good times.

We have all seen some great football over the years but its very easy to get carried away with the latest fad and having thousands of non players on the side lines is imo just that. Bill Nicholson was the ONLY manager of Spurs when they won the double and he actually controlled everything. Frank Blunstone and others cleaned their own football boots etc. I will accept players today are fitter than the old days but the facilities and pitches were dire too. I mean when we can go almost 90 mins with hardly any attempts on goal is when the plot has been lost. Thing is academies teach or train or OK coach individual talent is when on the pitch they just pass the ball between them and how many players today do you see take on players and head for goal etc?

Football has been around for centuries and acadamies just what 30 years? I cannot agree we see or I see better football than we used to...We can have after school football practice without the need for all these managers who cost the earth while we starve the first team with funds.

All the best everyone.

[jimmyboldon]

Think you are banging your head against a brick wall Timmy.

[Timmy58]

Think you are banging your head against a brick wall Timmy.

I agree Jimmy. Sadly some people can't move with the times. Football is a vastly different game now, more of a business in fact and I don't necessarily see that as a good thing. But there is little I can do about it. Premiership football, tv and grossly inflated pay for the top players brought about by tv money does little for the game any lower than mid table championship. No club even at the level of Nantwich Town are managed by one person.