BAME

[originallambrettaman]

Well I'm clearly not alone in that department Stephen.Let's take Kieron Dyer for example who's quoted as saying "I don't want to be interviewed because it's filling a quota"...Or how about Titus Bramble who labelled the Rooney Rule "A disgrace"?

I mean would you want to be interviewed due to compliance or sit waiting on a courtesy call knowing that you have to be interviewed as part of a Rule?

There’s a fairly significant difference between not wanting to get a job just because you’re black and not getting an interview just because you’re black.

 

[Steven Toast]

Well I'm clearly not alone in that department Stephen.Let's take Kieron Dyer for example who's quoted as saying "I don't want to be interviewed because it's filling a quota"...Or how about Titus Bramble who labelled the Rooney Rule "A disgrace"?

I mean would you want to be interviewed due to compliance or sit waiting on a courtesy call knowing that you have to be interviewed as part of a Rule?

Right, we aren't just going to pick a name out of a hat, we would pick the best BAME candidate or the one that best suits what we are aiming to achieve.

I don't think skin colour should matter, as you say, it should come down to talent, but we've had decades of that method and it's resulted in a piss poor ratio of BAME coaches making it in the game in this country. Something isn't right and in a sport that is cracking down on racism, inherent or otherwise, something needs to be done. I mean, you can't seriously think that the reason there are so few BAME candidates is because they all just happen to be crap?

They aren't asking to be gifted a job (which by proxy, whether you meant it to or not, is what it sounded like you were complaining about), simply the chance to be thought of in a selection process.