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Need one if we have any chance of staying up. But who?
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I’ve got an idea.
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Was it the manager who coached us when we scored 400 goals in 10 seasons, with us getting the ball into the box at every opportunity? I can’t quite place the name. :-)
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I’ve got an idea.
I think Jesus will be tied up organising his birthday party ( again ) in a few weeks time bill…. oh you mean Brian Laws 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Surely Adkins, Bara or Lawsy wouldn’t want to see us drop again.
Com’on gents FOC for second half of the season?
So you expect someone to take on a shit role for 6 months, for free? It certainly wouldn’t enhance their CV and they would likely get abuse too, especially if there wasn’t a major turnaround. Unlikely (and I wouldn’t blame them).
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Bit tongue in cheek 3i’s. Get abuse? Think we need to be a bit more forgiving whoever comes in as it stands we are going down. Anything else is a bonus.
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I bet IronIronIron is a real laugh at parties. RoamingBull was being sarcastic with the free or charge comment you plank lol
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Topics: 80Compensatory Management – a wage / salary in exchange for someone’s time & effort.
With regards to players, we end up with journeymen picking up their thirty pieces of silver.
Publicly they kiss the badge but privately their devotion is to their bank account – they betray the club.Only the very wealthiest clubs can sustain this short term model. Man City will be fine until we are all driving electric cars 😂
It’s a flawed & failed ‘business model’ and lower league clubs should withdraw from it for their own survival.
The perennially or even these days, bi-perennially changing manager syndrome with each wanting their own squads of 40 plus players is destroying the smaller clubs.
It’s tantamount to insanity!
CEOs on £250k to £500k at the lower level – what do they actually do or & bring to a small club?
Do clubs attracting gates of 1,000 to 10,000 actually need a CEO?
It’s not as if they are an employment organisation on the scale of Microsoft, Amazon, Royal Dutch Shell, Nestle, McDonalds etc.Surely the title (& salary) ‘General Manager’ would suffice?
But hey ho, image is more important than substance to some.
Loan players – better known as ‘blockers’… nuff said.
Intrapreneurship Management
Basically, developing from within.
“Steve Jobs was also partly responsible for coinage of the term when he described the approach of his Macintosh team to Newsweek as Intrapreneurship, citing ‘a group of people going in essence back to the garage, but in a large company.’
Let’s not forget that Steve Jobs founded Apple in his garage.
Where has all the millions in EFL Academy funding gone since it’s inception?
Why doesn’t the club have its own Academy site, pitches, 5G pitches, club house, changing facilities etc?
If you don’t invest in the foundations, then eventually, the house or mansion will subside and be destroyed.
Why haven’t we ever invested in the clubs future?
Academy players are ‘free’ (relatively) in comparison to those brought in from other clubs.
Build a great academy facility, the best in the area for 40 miles and you will get the best players in that geographic area.
Success breeds success.
A lineage of academy players representing ‘their’ club compounds the success and makes the academy even more attractive to players & parents.Short term pain – long term gain.
We are now a small, irrelevant lower league club. We need to do something different.
Throwing lots of money in to lots of players (unnecessarily large squads) pockets does nothing to help the club.
We need to know our place in the grand scheme of things.
Scunthorpe United FC have traditionally been a L2 (old L4) club.
Chasing dreams is fine – but at what cost?
I’d be happy for a return to L2 and for that level of ‘mediocrity’ for the remainder of my life.
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Yes. Did okay with NI. Could be okay at this level.
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Did alright considering who he had to follow and having the team sold from under him.
But the moaners got on his back and we got the grim Knill years after.
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Was Barra throwing his hat in the ring with his half time comment of I’m out of work at the moment. Would anyone take him back?.
Had a great brain on the pitch and whether he should of been given longer as our Manager is an unknown. Did OK at NI. But this obsession with ex staff/players hasn’t reaped any rewards. I wouldn’t be against it as I think he would do a decent job at this level.
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Did ok at Northern Ireland? 6 wins in 28 matches. Why did they sack him? Yorks ex manager still looking for a job proven record in Nln and was doing well this season, why the obsession with ex Scunny players being managers?
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I wouldn’t say Barra saying he was available and a few people saying, okay, maybe, is an obsession. You may have a point about the recent history of recruiting ex players to be managers though.
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Topics: 80Cliff Byrne for manager.
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Sure you can’t see obsession Deerey?
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I’m more concerned that we truly try – whoever is in charge – to stay up this season.
I am concerned that we may attempt to do this with a fistful of loan players. If newcomers are our own – they, at least, should be incentivised for the fight.
I’m not writing off loanees entirely – but they’d have to be experienced and have a couple of seasons left in ’em. Leadership qualities a must!
I think the appointee should be the one most likely to be able to bring in at least half a dozen tough players capable of making a real difference to the squad.
To bring in a clutch of new players – it’s gonna have to be someone who has many contacts and loadsa respect from players he’s previously managed.
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