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Lost the plot is a very poor turn of phrase. I hope you don’t suffer mental health and ever have such a gaslighting turn of phrase put at you for having an opinion. my point is that the city group approach isn’t very good. And if an analytic data based tactic is taking four months and if we use the example of Lommel, means appointing Steve Bould or Lee Johnson (McCarron’s appointments). It’s not a very good process hence a red herring

Hartlepool United and Northampton Town have sacked and got new appointments in position over the period we’ve been relegated to now

McCarron might be working his bollocks off. Your problem is that you have an owner who turns up every two to three months and wants complete autonomy on everything. I’ve heard it first hand from club staff of their frustration of his sporadic attendance

A lot of word salad - the concrete evidence is the collective five years of similar experiences. Bear in mind every decision has to go through Top, everyone can work their arses off but until the chairman says yes or no, it’s just in activity. Im calling it a red herring because I’m looking at the City Group satellite clubs and none of have any success. Very few players have left those satellite clubs to become better and transfer value high players elsewhere. Wheres the proof that their data is successful? Manchester City can pick and choose who they want to sign, they don’t need a complex system to find value. I’m looking at clubs where that data driven decision making is important. Troyes, Girona (less than 50%), Lommel United and Palermo who aren’t really pulling up any trees rsther being yo yo clubs. They aren’t achieving like Bloom’s collection of clubs for example.

Also the City Group thing is a red herring. None of their satellite clubs have had great success. Man City don’t need to be overly analytic with recruitment of players or managers. None of their satellite clubs have shown great success in identifying players and managers which can either play for City or be sold for big money. If you compare that to say Bloom at Brighton and see the impact on Union SG and Hearts. That’s proper good work and use of an analytic approach

Most clubs work on a business plan basis which includes multiple, different scenarios playing out. Transfers/managerial choices in particular. You have lists for the eventualities. The new CEO even mentioned this when the financial results came out

McCarron has had since March to get this sorted. Similar sort of time frame as Bournemouth for example in their transition to Rose. You are putting a lot of emphasis on a bloke whose real life experience in the role is failing to get the most well backed club in the Belgian second division promoted

The last two summers we didn’t make an appointment until the second half of the off season. Quality certainly wasn’t present in either of those two choices. So why as a set of fans are being asked to considered that for the third time in a row, we remain patient on the promise of a quality appointment, you can see where the annoyance is occurring again? Pardon me for thinking that after quite simply the worst season ever, the grave financial implications, and the promise of communication. And even that they knew this scenario was a very real possibility back in February when they appointed Rowett to the end of the season. That the football club might realise that planning the contingency of next season starts back in February/March. Not hanging around until something crops that might be of interest. Hence why I strongly believe the recruitment is mostly likely agent led again.

Bournemouth will have had that list ready for months - there's no excuse why we couldn't have. From the end of the season, 8 clubs in a variety of size have already appointed managers for the forthcoming season. Examples like Northampton and Hartlepool (far less attractive than us) have worked on the same time frames as us and got managers in. Ready to shape pre-season, ready to shape transfer targets (& departures). In the same period, we have a manager but he's not really the manager.

Zero acknowledgment from them that Saints initially try to deny they did it and then presented with evidence pleaded guilty. Your ability to defend your club when they've actually admitted it is zero.

Every second that ticks this summer is another second wasted. If we keep Rowett as a potential option hence no news, that suggests our leadership and McCarron have zero confidence in their own ability to identify a manager better and stronger than him. Just weak, unambitious leadership again. Bournemouth managed to find a successor within a week for their outgoing manager.

I wouldn’t say it’s a non event this year though. Ownership promised better communication and everyone else is doing it now. A very quick easy win to the fanbase is to tell everyone some rotten eggs have been released. This isn’t rocket science at all. People want to see some form of action and get a bit of hope. Yeah we’ve never been early with the announcement. The lack of managerial process is following the last two summers and that’s why people are struggling. Realistically we’ve had since Rowett’s appointment to draw up a list. Yet we are here now and it would very much appear we following the tactic of agent influenced choices put in front of the club rather than targeting individuals

Reading that he put members of staff under pressure to do the spying is pretty downright shitty. One of the interns refused to spy on Ipswich for example

No, and it’s becoming apparent he’s a serial offender with his time at Koln and Germany beginning to have evidence of spying

The opposition is weaker quite simply, no drop downs from the CL or EL. Other Big 5 leagues don’t have the depth of the PL. This means the PL teams are playing weaker opposition, only have to look at Forest’s run. Additionally the group stage process is far easier, we’d have weaker group opposition.

Makes sense in Top world. Whilst every other club begins to get to the front of the queue for signings and departures

I agree with your sentiment but there’s little doubt that the recent success of English clubs in Europa League and Conference League is directly tied to the format changes.

I looked up the other week, if we won the group, we’d have played Leipzig or Atalanta, I wouldn’t have backed us against either of those. People are forgetting the loss to Slavia though. That was a disgrace really. Our run would have been Rangers, Arsenal, Villarreal and Manchester United from there.

Arguably Spurs out, Villa in. Only a select period of the 2010s where Spurs were anything other than mid table in my lifetime

I thought that from a google search but its the exact same details as when we played them two years ago, same stadium, same date. Our season starts 7th-9th August with the League Cup First Round being played on the weekend now

Saints manager did have the look of OJ Simpson in court on every media interview he did during the play offs. A very strange guy

CEO pointing out decisions of punishments not made by the EFL. Some weak argument there

Wouldn't disagree but Polanski has directly attacked the same media. Burnham by comparison is a smoother, more experienced politician (although I just read he's put the bloke who was behind Corbyn's advance to Labour leader as his campaign manager). Personally for me, (but I really can't see it), you could have John Smith into Blair esque progression from Starmer to Burnham.

The EFL have will have used the example of FIFA deducting points for Canada's Womens team for the justification of the punishment. That Southampton have admitted guilt isn't a good look as it means the EFL and the clubs have conclusive evidence and effectively Southampton have been trying to plea a case of lesser punishment rather than denying the crime.

Yeah similar to you. Even though I was running regularly, every time I played footy my back was sore. The key was to get my hamstrings and quads stronger. Upping core exercises so many times a week and now it’s pretty much under control