i think its fair to say they are making sure neil adams ONLY has to focus on the players and match preparation. playing to his strengths, hopefully!
problem is, are there too many cooks (sorry)?
If you listen to carrabuh the one cook we have is far too many.
Personally I think the system sounds excellent so long as each member of the team trust each of the others then things divide quite nicely theres:
The Football coaching team - Adams in charge with Robson and Holt, both of whom have more managerial experience but have also both worked with Adams before. Then Joe royal will be offering advise to Adams on all manner of things and it seems will be using some of his contacts too, i wonder is he might currently be acting recruitment director in everything but name until that role is sorted. I think he will also provide Adams with a greater depth of knowledge of what talent is out there and gives him a second opinion on players as signing will ultimately be agreed on by him. Its clear from the interview Adams gave that he trusts and respects Royal and i think this role was something he pushed for.
The technical director seems to be taking all the general administration away from the manager which seems like a good thing and should hopefully mean that behind the scenes we can afford to improve all manner of infrastructure without it taking up too much of the managers time. This could have genuinely positive effects on our set up as it become someones full time concern.
The Recruitment director role seems blurred is it more than just a head scout? are they expected to get more involved in the actual signing of the players and not just the identifying them, this would be moving responsibility away from McNally although we all know everything goes through him and he hold the purse strings, but I'm imagining this role involving dealing with other clubs and agents more than a scout would.
McNally will have a great deal of his current footballing responsibilities delegated to others not meaning he can focus his efforts where he is best, the business side, McNally will I would guess still be in charge of the Money which ultimately make him king, and then all the marketing and customer facing side of the business along with all the no football related aspects of the business, hopefully this will free up time to sort out our terrible website and even worse mobile app (yes we really have one) and most importantly without so much day to day to deal with he can start looking long term. Recently I've gotten the impression that McNally does too much and too many thing go through him If he can bring in people he trusts to deliver then he can start working more macro and less micro.
All this should be good for the club but as i said before it required a level of trust, the technical director needs to acknowledge that first team tactics are the purview of Adams and his team and McNally needs to leave the individual directors to work with a level of autonomy. If this does't work it will be due to the inability of one of the directors to let the others work in peace.
