Quote Originally Posted by upthemaggies View Post
If I were a player, I'd find it more difficult to respect a manager (or head coach) who is clearly having to defer to some other member of staff sat in an office. It also must make some degree of difference to a player if he thinks the manager rated and wanted him in the first place, as opposed to having no say in the matter.
I believe the head coach does have a say in the recruitment as he's the one that has to work with them day in day out. The recruitment team use the stats to find players that fit the playing style and suggest them....
That's if there's a coach actually in the building which there's not. It didn't work out too bad when we bought Langstaff while having no head coach.