McNally's Statement on Relegation

[Canary Rob]

Hi bors, an honest statement from our CEO with no attempt to camouflage the reality behind our demise from the Premium League. Regarding him saying he would not hesitate to go if he stood in City's progress, that IMO doesn't arise, we all learn from our mistakes and in this case will make him an even better CEO.

This season has not been a complete failure, adversity is a good teacher and hopefully mistakes made will not be repeated in the future.

As always OTBC, said by many of our ancestors before us and despite the schism of this season still our battle cry.

After unrelenting success we were always going to come back down to ground.

Let's just hope we can build on our experience.

 

[CotswoldCanary]

This is something I asked on another thread, but no one answered. is there anyone on the board that actually knows anything about football?

Hampy knows everything but never goes through a turn stile.

He does watch a lot of sky sports though so he must be right

 

[Superman wears Grant Holt pyjamas in bed]

I haven't really heard of a club in this country where the "Director of Football" structure has worked that well. Seems to work in Italy and Spain.

Do you know any Supers?

sorry kemp, i did see this the other day but never had a chance to reply.

off the top of my head i cannot think of an example in this country where its been a rip-roaring success but neither do i think it should be ignored as an idea for the club (assuming that's what mcnally was indicating). if you accept that at the moment our club are never really likely to hang on to a manager for more than two years or so (with good managers being pinched and bad managers being sacked), a director of football could bring the sort of continuity we'd desire on a football level. a master plan could be put in place which future managers would then buy into if they want to come, rather than come in with a new philosophy. i don't really have a problem with the concept of dof's - i know many people don't like them - how it would work is the big question regarding transfers etc but i think a lot of managers will be prepared to work alongside one, they might even prefer it, i don't know.

out of interest, would anybody be dead against it, and if so, why?

 

[canary-dave]

sorry kemp, i did see this the other day but never had a chance to reply.

off the top of my head i cannot think of an example in this country where its been a rip-roaring success but neither do i think it should be ignored as an idea for the club (assuming that's what mcnally was indicating). if you accept that at the moment our club are never really likely to hang on to a manager for more than two years or so (with good managers being pinched and bad managers being sacked), a director of football could bring the sort of continuity we'd desire on a football level. a master plan could be put in place which future managers would then buy into if they want to come, rather than come in with a new philosophy. i don't really have a problem with the concept of dof's - i know many people don't like them - how it would work is the big question regarding transfers etc but i think a lot of managers will be prepared to work alongside one, they might even prefer it, i don't know.

out of interest, would anybody be dead against it, and if so, why?

I wouldn't be dead against it per se but I would be nervous simply because I don't know of a single case where it's worked out well in England!

 

[KIO]

Remember the dream team of Bruce Rioch and Brian Hamilton ???