I can imagine a young players heads being filled with blather from their agent. “You’ll go straight into the first team there. You’ll be better than those L2 cloggers. It’s much easier to score goals at that level. Other clubs will notice you and offer you ££££s.”
Then they get on the blower to prospective takers and big the lad up with more bullshit. Lazy sods who can’t be arsed to get from behind their laptop or mobile buy into it and before long you’ve got an Ike Ugbo or a George Miller to catapult you to promotion.
Interesting stuff BRI. I thought the following was particularly apt: –
“Public compliance has been generally good, so this is predominantly a failure of governance. Aspects include delayed decision-making when considering lockdowns, an expensive and flawed roll-out of the test-and-trace programme, a lack of support to help people self-isolate, a border policy for international arrivals that is extremely lax, and policies that encouraged mixing indoors such as the ‘eat out to help out’ scheme. Any inquiry into the UK government handling of the Covid-19 pandemic will find there is a lot to scrutinise.”
Thing is that this could have been posted last winter, or indeed the winter before that.
There’s no guarantee that if we change managers yet again the new incumbent can do any better than Cox given the players he has available. If Swann waits until after the Grimsby game that leaves just one week of the transfer window for a new manager to be appointed and to bring in additional players. We know how that went last January!
It ain’t going to happen. Even if Cox is sacked I’d expect Swann to put Russ back in charge again and the merry-go-round turns full circle.
Dismissing Cox and Lillis means another managerial payoff. Something we can’t afford especially if we need another striker. which we desperately do!
So I’m afraid it’s a bloody mess. I don’t think Neil is solely responsible for our on field failures because it clearly goes back beyond his appointment.
