Quote Originally Posted by Shadrack the Red View Post
I look at last january at our recruitment and I think the word shambles comes to mind, we signed a goalkeeper , a left wing back , a winger and an alleged striker who wouldn"t get a strike out of a box of swan vestas !! , this window brought a whole new meaning to the word scattergun . The keeper was no better than our own, the wing back is a crock, the winger has had about 30 minutes game time in 3 months and the striker would struggle to get in Worsboro Bridge"s squad , we were 5th in the league and needed a boost to help push us on to the play offs , what it actually achieved was to cost us any chance we had and it cost the HC his job, it was a disgrace and what worries me is that nothing has changed , the spreadsheet , the recruitment team etc were responsible for this shambles and this will stay the same for the summer window unless Conner is hopefully brought in to the recruitment group , a new strategy has to be brought in to play and this existing approach has to go , the recent quality of recruitment has nose dived and unless we introduce a change then Conner will stand no chance and we will head for the trap door .
It's only an opinion of course Shad but my gut feeling is that Connor is a different beast from our last two HC's .

As I mentioned previously Connor is probably financially secure for life , he wants to be an HC rather than he needs to be to put food on the table , that's a huge differential .

The tables have turned on the club with Connor , they need him more than he needs the job , there isn't anyone with a credible record such as Warne coming here given the way the club is run and how they are expected to operate , if that wasn't enough they still get the sack even if they've had you in the top 6 all season with one game to go .

They also get the sack when the January window actually makes the squad worse as you have alluded to .

Connor Hourihane is nobody's fool , unproven as a HC but nobody's fool either , desperate Collins or Clarke he's not .