Paul Douglas to speak to press next week.

[SdnMiller]

In our retained list post of that season under tailor there's 2 Madsters who both mention that our centre backs have injury concerns, followed up by a thread called defence a month later where 3 other Madsters suggest caution regarding the availability of our defence.

While not from everyone there was certainly a level of foresight at the time that we could end up with injury problems at the back, yes Humphreys and Blackett's injuries were unexpected but I still believe the approach to only sign experienced championship players was naive.

Also regarding Warne, it's not like he was completely avert to experienced signings, potter, billy Jones, Shaun Macdonald, Shane Ferguson to name a few.

But this point about a change in philosophy answers the question about long term planning. If we change our ideas every transfer window to fit whatever manager we have at the time wants how can the be a long term solution. Warne wanted mainly young unproven players in the hope they would come good and could be sold on, Taylor wanted championship experience players to help us stay up. Evans wanted all his mates to come as free agents, and now hamshaw again wants young unproven players to sell on. 4 transfer strategies in 4 years, there's nothing long term planning about that at all.

I'm not trying to suggest we throw away hamshaw's idea of signing young players, helping them progress and then selling them on for profit, far from it actually I think it's the best strategy a club of our stature can employ, but having a completely different strategy for the past 2 years purely based on what the manager wants I find somewhat farcical. The club is desperately missing a director of football to take the business minded people out of the footballing decisions at the club

Edit after posting:
Just to add on to the lack of long term planning. Remember how Rob Scott was promoted to director of football under Richardson for 6 months because he advised it, only for us to remove the role as soon as Evans arrived. Doesn't sound much like long term planning to me

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

SdnMiller
Quite a few of us posters on this MM site, have been calling for someone on the board with football knowledge for years.

[Brin]

SdnMiller
Quite a few of us posters on this MM site, have been calling for someone on the board with football knowledge for years.

ELK, at this moment in time, would you swap a COO of the club for a Director of football who knows the game inside out?

[Derbymiller]

ELK, at this moment in time, would you swap a COO of the club for a Director of football who knows the game inside out?

I would swap the COO for a full time physiotherapy team that can address the awful list of injuries. Specialist contractors in most industry cost more than FTEs it would be interesting to know how financially it stacks up for us to be using contractors in that area.

[Brin]

I would swap the COO for a full time physiotherapy team that can address the awful list of injuries. Specialist contractors in most industry cost more than FTEs it would be interesting to know how financially it stacks up for us to be using contractors in that area.

Derbs, only got to look at the NHS. Nurse calls in sick so to cover that they bring in an agency nurse that costs almost a third more.

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

My missus just finished her physio treatment at home sessions, through NHS follow up if a patient requires it, after leaving hospital
Physio helped my wife to start walking with a stick at the moment.
Now down to the wife to push forward, with me at her side egging her on.
The club needs it's own physio's, not using different ones, same physio working with a player(s) then gets to know the strengths & weakness of a players injury over the course of time.

[Derbymiller]

Derbs, only got to look at the NHS. Nurse calls in sick so to cover that they bring in an agency nurse that costs almost a third more.

We are not the NHS we are a commercial organisation that employs professional sports athletes that require high level of maintenance, otherwise they end up not being able to perform, or recover well from injuries. Oh look that is exactly what is happening, we are told we will be ok when the players are fit yet we openly admit we do not have the necessary staff employed within the club to get them and keep them fit!! What makes this worse is our COO (the man in charge of Operations) doesn’t see this as an issue, in fact he states that because MH and the fitness guy haven’t raised it with him it must be ok! Remember this is a manager that said earlier in the season that they had looked at everything related to the injuries and all areas they could had been addressed. Am I the only person on here that sees this is a new level of farce and incompetence? In my eyes it is madness, the emporer is not only naked he isn’t even riding a horse, he is riding an Ass.

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

I was going to the physio private clinic near Conisborough Castle once a week, for about 6 weeks, when I was working , of course me paying myself.
The physio was also working for the NHS at Rotherham Hospital so many days a week.
So he had 2 bites of the cherry.
Funny thing was sometime after a hip replacement at Rotherham hospital I was sent to the physio department where the physio who treated me, was the physio I had used privately.
I was also sent to Badsley Moor Lane physio department.

[Derbymiller]

Eric good luck to you and your wife by the way

[Brin]

We are not the NHS we are a commercial organisation that employs professional sports athletes that require high level of maintenance, otherwise they end up not being able to perform, or recover well from injuries. Oh look that is exactly what is happening, we are told we will be ok when the players are fit yet we openly admit we do not have the necessary staff employed within the club to get them and keep them fit!! What makes this worse is our COO (the man in charge of Operations) doesn’t see this as an issue, in fact he states that because MH and the fitness guy haven’t raised it with him it must be ok! Remember this is a manager that said earlier in the season that they had looked at everything related to the injuries and all areas they could had been addressed. Am I the only person on here that sees this is a new level of farce and incompetence? In my eyes it is madness, the emporer is not only naked he isn’t even riding a horse, he is riding an Ass.

Derbs, I know you're vexed by your post but I was merely pointing out, employing someone a few times a day at the club (not full time) it is probably costing us just as much to cover their wages for 3 days instead of 5, a bit like the NHS.

Totally 100% agree on your post by the way. Question, who's the ass Tony's riding?