Thats not really the point I was ever trying to make but i understand why people have jumped on it and are upset (i made a snide comment without explaining anything).
There is an mindset at the club that you can only do well if you’ve played or been part of the club before. It’s as if we are a drastically different operation or culture to other clubs and other people would struggle to click here. We put a lot of weight on this with recruitment of staff in senior positions. There are elements of this that are nice, and have benefits. I am sure each club does have a slightly different culture. I just don’t think it’s as important as the club think. it doesn’t really happen to this level at any other club, they pick the best person for the job regardless of club history most times.
The issues I have with it is that if we are ever to evolve as a club and be a more modern footballing culture than it’s much harder to achieve when you are picking people who were at the club 10-20 years ago and we’ve historically been a poor footballing club. It’s also a much smaller talent pool of people (my biggest issue with it). That doesn’t mean there aren’t good blades, just it’s an absolutely tiny pool of people to pick from.
This is a dig at the ethos of the club (which is a bit stuck in the past) and 100% not a dig at the new guy who we’ve just hired. Like you have outlined, and others, good talented people can be blades, but much more numerous talented people exist outside of that.
My final comment on it. I hope this guy is a success, obviously, i was vocal about a change in this department so i’m all for the change. It would be good to see us less reliant on ex players, there is a world of talent beyond this.
