My thinking was more that Speakman is the type of person that it's very easy to imagine he goes on like a dick but it's not always going to be true.
I really dont think it is mate. You can receive you reports from medical team, data team but the only people qualified to put a team on a pitch are highly qualified coaches. I havent come across coaches saying it is any kind of committee process.
He never said it was a committee process. He said it was a discussion with the head coach getting final say, which is exactly what you just described.
Splitting hairs maybe mate. My experience is a day or two before the game the two main, sometimes 3, tuck themselves away and come up with the final plan and team. It is common for monthly meetings with a wider team to take place where folk put forward their views on where players are, including u23 lads. None of it though is focussed on I think this player might be X or Y, that is the coaches job. Tactics, formation, instructions, can only be from the core team.
Did he not fancy putting himself on the touchline for the last 13 games when he peddled Beale?
That's why I don't understand why he's come out and said what he's said previously about it being a discussion. If he says nowt then he can just fire the head coach. But because he's said he is involved, then the eye of Mordor is on him and not just the coach. He's brought it on himself imo.
Yes I would agree that he thinks he's untouchable but if I was him I wouldn't **** around with billionaires who have their family lawyer on the board of directors. He's put some good structures in place at the academy and youth level that needed to be rebuilt.aybe that's where his strengths are.
