Exeter Board Issue Statement

[Jimmy Badfellow]

I wondered that too Flour about the backroom staff.
Usually a manager wants to bring in his own people but I think in the past we've told candidates they'll have to work with at least some of the staff that's already here.
As you've suggested that's unlikely to be a particularly attractive proposition for some of the "high calibre" people the chairman says have applied particularly as the job is extremely difficult in the first place.

Football is a very strange business. It always intrigues me when backroom staff are put in ''interim'' charge when the manager they worked with gets sacked. Are ''we'' saying that Carlisle,Green and Brown have had zero input into the performances and results that got MT the sack? Or are we saying that MT was such a control freak that their ideas and suggestions were shut off at the first utterance of a syllable? If Carlisle et al are going to bring a freshness of ideas to proceedings then they must have disagreed with much of what MT had in mind so why,when MT finds another job and we find another manager who doesn't want them,will they run straight back to him as if it was all bound to happen anyway.Football is an absolute pantomime!

[CAMiller]

Football is a very strange business. It always intrigues me when backroom staff are put in ''interim'' charge when the manager they worked with gets sacked. Are ''we'' saying that Carlisle,Green and Brown have had zero input into the performances and results that got MT the sack? Or are we saying that MT was such a control freak that their ideas and suggestions were shut off at the first utterance of a syllable? If Carlisle et al are going to bring a freshness of ideas to proceedings then they must have disagreed with much of what MT had in mind so why,when MT finds another job and we find another manager who doesn't want them,will they run straight back to him as if it was all bound to happen anyway.Football is an absolute pantomime!

Are you saying football is different to all other businesses? There aren't many examples from business where the entire management team get the boot when the top man gets his P45.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Are you saying football is different to all other businesses? There aren't many examples from business where the entire management team get the boot when the top man gets his P45.

I worked for two separate UK companies that were taken over by American venture capital backed organisations and that’s exactly what happened.

In the first one the top 5 went, the second the top 4 went. One of them went on to take up a very prestigious position in Sheffield

[CAMiller]

I worked for two separate UK companies that were taken over by American venture capital backed organisations and that’s exactly what happened.

In the first one the top 5 went, the second the top 4 went. One of them went on to take up a very prestigious position in Sheffield

Yes but a takeover is completely different to the simple firing of one employee for performance reasons.

[Jimmy Badfellow]

Are you saying football is different to all other businesses? There aren't many examples from business where the entire management team get the boot when the top man gets his P45.

It's different that in football 'management groups' generally go from club to club together. MT brought Carlisle,Green and Brown with him. It's also different in that the chances are heavily weighed towards all 3 leaving within the next few weeks when a new manager wants his own management group. All they are doing at the moment is fulfilling their contractual obligations in order to protect their compensation pay offs should they be necessary ,and/or ,waiting for MT to get another job so he can negotiate their exit/terms with the new club on their behalf.

[flourbasher]

Yes It might be more of a financial decision.

Also Tony obviously knew an new appointment would not be made for some time so it does give us some stability as demonstrated on Friday and the prep for the Hull match