I was happy enough with the cowleys until I read what that Lincoln fan said about them. Wouldn’t surprise me if it was some unknown appointment from abroad.
Would like to see a structure like this: 1) Owners 2) Chairman 3) Sporting Director and MD (Rodwell or replacement) - both reporting to Chairman 4) Manager and Technical Director (Speakman) - both reporting to Sporting Director 5) Academy Director, Head of Recruitment reporting to Technical Director The only thing that would take the gloss off would be if the Chairman is a Mr Methven
would this be it, load of echo ****e https://www.sunderlandecho.com/spor...akman-talks-be-new-technical-director-3056212
Quota filled then. He has every right to apply, but that's about as far as it'll go. Unless they insist all applicants get an interview.
Phillips also told an interesting attempt by Wilkinson to motivate his struggling players by telling them to grasp the nettle and trying to prove his point by doing it for real: He comes in with a plastic carrier bag in his hand and straight away all the lads are looking at each other and thinking ‘what’s he doing now?’. He starts walking up and down, doing his team talk and he starts going on about ‘who is going to stand up, who is going to take the reigns, who is going to grasp the nettle?’. Which one of you is going to do that because I tell you what, I’ll grasp the nettle if none of you do it’. So at that point he opens the carrier bag, puts his hand in the carrier bag and brings out a great big bunch of stinging nettles. So he says ‘There you are, I’ve grasped the nettle, I’ve done it, I’ve shown that I’m a man’. He goes round ‘who wants to take them?’ and all the lads are like ‘I’m not taking them’, so he puts them back in his bag and carries on his team talk. While he is doing his team talk, you think I’m not listening any more, I just want to watch his hand and you could see him while he’s doing his team talk, he’s shaking his hand, he stung the hell out of his hand. You have to give him credit for trying everything.
Structure around and above the Manager is the most important task. Managers come and go ..otherwise we are pissing in the wind .
Can't remember which one of the ITK's said it, but it was stated that they were looking at 4 candidates for SD, one of which was Scandinavean. This apparently was whittled down to 2. This was mentioned before the Gus U-Turn, so I believe they will have spoken to the the 2 candidates, and appointed one before they started interviewing managers. That would make massive sense. No point in someone like Rodwell or Sartori appointing a manager, then finding out that the SD and the manager are not compatible. So far, Schwartz has been the only name mentioned, but whether it's him or not is anyone's guess
When I asked Upthere to clarify the two positions he has said “One will be Head of Football and one will be Sporting Director”. That sounds rest interesting if true.
