- Put your hand up if you crave stability.
- Put your hand up if you want our club to be informed, decisive and intolerant of low quality performance.
Are those things at odds or can we have a little bit of both? In my opinion, you can have a bit of both. I'll try and keep this simple...
When things go wrong at a club you can lose a sense of what's right and what should be do-able. You can hang on thinking things might pick up soon or you might start accepting small, inadequate successes as a sign that things are ok and might get better.
But, if you really take stock of our situation, it is blindingly obvious to any person that we are seriously under-performing and are making seriously inadequate plans for each game. Our tactics have been utterly ineffective against high quality and lower quality opposition. The individual players don't even look that bad. We simply have shoddy matchday plans. Obviously things are not working and this has gone on long enough to show that even if there was improvement it would be too little, too slow and way overdue.
But how can you hope to have a secure stable club and at the same time be intolerant of such inadequacies? This is how:
- You have directors who firstly are informed. They know who is experienced and who is likely to deliver. You don't gamble lightly on unproven talent.
- You are decisive in an informed way; you know when things are going south and when things are unlikely to get better. You make the changes needed to keep the club in good health.
- You need to have high standards. You have to have realistic ambitions and then work for them. Any serious lack of performance needs to be reviewed and dealt with.
The more the club is well informed, decisive and intolerant of failure, the more likely there is to be stability naturally. Stability is irrelevant if you make bad appointments and can't do what's needed to protect the health of the club. You can't manufacture stability but refusing to make important decisions. You'll end up with low self esteem all around. Stability should be a natural occurrence born out of wise decision making.
Those who know me will know I did well to keep this as short as I have. Apologies for the small essay!
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