I think in addition to getting the right ethos, it is about getting the right backroom team in place at the club. The physios, the sports psychologists, nutritionists and all the stuff that makes a modern, successful football club. That means that when a new manager does come it, the change at the club is only the incoming manager and 1 or 2 coaches. This new role will be vital in making this happen and avoid the repeating mistakes of a new manager, a great upheaval of backroom team, the manager gets sacked and it starts again.
Hopefully when all this gets sorted,who's responsible for what will become clear.I agree with you,at the moment it seems as though the titles for these roles overlap.
Well if the new owners have got any nous about them they'll use that money to buy the club from the existing owners. I think there's already a precedent set......
Not now surely. This must have been agreed and signed off already. The likelihood of this could have been factored in....it's been on the table for a while.
You should have given a trigger warning before posting that. I remember that day well, and how shocked I was when Wilko was announced.
It's our 50th Wedding Anniversary on Saturday and thanks to Covid all our plans have gone pear shaped. Can this please be sorted before then so I can pay proper attention to my other half and put this bloody computer down for a while. Pretty please.
You were shocked? Apparently I had a face like thunder according to a lad I worked with at the time. I was having a **** day at work as well and lost it big style later on after the news that he had taken the job!
The proposed new structure sounds promising as we've been pretty much rudderless for years. I would hope that If takeover happens then Kyril Louis Dreyfus / Juan Sartori sit as Co Chairman. Another outside appointment as Chairman could be a case of too many cooks, if we are also having A CEO running the business day to day, then a sporting director, then a technical director above the head coach and academy manager
Be careful at your age paying her proper attention, your computer is safer Happy anniversary to you both .
I saw it on teletext - SUNDERLAND APPOINT WILKINSON I couldn't think who the **** Wilkinson was, could only think of Jonny Wilkinson the rugby player, and to be fair he might have done a better job. When I clicked to read the page and saw it was Howard, I just dropped the remote in absolute shock
Just for any RTG idiots claiming I said Schwarz had been appointed. I said a lad had told me, that's all. I didn't say he was a journalist, a club employee or Juan Sartori .... just a lad passing on what he's heard. I didn't say I was ITK, just doing what I always do and passing on what I'm told. If people want to scan this forum, run back to RTG and report everything I say, a year after I last posted, that says more about them than me. You'd think that, at a time when there are huge changes at the club, and great optimism, an ex-poster wouldn't be the topic of conversation. (Sorry for the RTG reference but someone on here pm'd me about what was being said.)
Worry not! After 50 years,she'll realise how important this is and that it needs your full attention!! Congratulations to you both,by the way!
