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Managerial team/Coaches/Academy
*Note - this was written before the Jokanovic appointment – I have tried to update in sections but apologies if it refer to us not having a manager yet in sections!
Chris Wilder Last season I wrote the following in this section: ‘My words cannot do justice to what he has done to the club, for the team and the fans. Other coaching staff, players, backroom staff have certainly had major parts but he is the focal point and the leader of everything that has happened. He has been fantastic to the club and you cannot say enough what he has done for the club, team, players he has brought in/brought on and for the fans. He has basically completely transformed the club. In turn we are now liked by national and international football fans and media. He is so presentable and likeable. He always fronts up to the media and is funny, honest and self-depreciating too. He never gets ahead of himself and whilst confident, is not cocky or arrogant. His post match interviews remain very honest. He will say it like it is. He has at times occasionally even criticised an individual or the team a few times (Liverpool at home with Henderson or Liverpool away for the team) but less so this season and maybe kept things in house more and generally praises a ‘great group.’ That was until his Leicester rant which reminded me of Hull a few years ago! To be fair he has not had to criticise them much anyway as they do everything, he asks them to do. Often, he says exactly what most fans are thinking. He maybe has been questioned for throwing them under the bus a bit but that is his style and earned the right to say what he wants pretty much. He has embraced the challenge of going up against top level managers and was right in the mix for manager of the year until we maybe fell off a bit towards the end. It was always going to be hard to keep the momentum going and the break did not help us but then we seemed to get going and he outcoached some big clubs/managers but we just ran out of steam. At the end even he could not criticise too much as saw the players were doing their best but could not just keep to what they had done. We did fall away and it clearly rankled as he talked of us going to the summer as losers when in reality even, he knew that was not the case.’
A year later and he is no longer our manager and we are out of the top flight. So much has been discussed about Wilder’s accomplishments. He really was the architect of a simply fantastic time at the club. It was 4 absolutely amazing years where we achieved things most of us never thought possible. He made average players look amazing and galvanised the whole club. We were relevant again. He was our leader. Our messiah. Sure, there were things he did that the board, players and even fans may have got annoyed by but he backed it up. I felt we would go on and at be comfortable this season and the only fear was when he would be inevitably be poached by a bigger club who could realise his trophy ambitions or even the England job. He was one of the talks of the country. 6 months later and he was sadly seen as the next success story that simply could not maintain it. Was he another Paul Jewell, Nigel Adkins or David Wagner? We won’t know until his next managerial chapter is written.
What we do know is I never envisaged that when I walked out of Bramall Lane against Norwich City and we were 6thplace that the next time I returned to the Lane, Wilder would not be here and we would be back as a Championship club. The pandemic, injuries, lack of momentum, poor form, players believing their own hype and maybe even Wilder doing that also. Whatever could go wrong has gone wrong. I could debate so many things here and discuss what he or the club could have done differently. It is easy in hindsight. The recruitment has been billed as a big one but a year ago many of us would not have wanted major changes to the starting line-up. We wanted maybe a quality striker, another midfielder, a keeper of course and some decent back ups who would not see such a big drop off. Ironically, he signed a keeper we all seemed happy with it, he got a talented young striker (I think if we had signed Welbeck or Deeney instead at the time, Wilder and the club would have got criticised and said why did we not go for a younger option?) and some backs ups at wing back. We needed a midfielder but then he would not have known that players would have dropped off so much. Wilder can discuss the wages and maybe not being able to compete with some but still had decent funds really. It is clear most of his signings both last summer and the one before has not come off. He has spent a lot of money and not improved the side. Still even with the poor signings, the core of the Championship team had performed so well. No one would have though the midfield 3, Stevens and even Mousse/McBurnie would have dropped off and contributed so little. Some of the players had looked some of the best in their respective positions a year ago but now the likes of Fleck and Stevens turned into footballers who literally could barely do anything right. Whether it was complacency, confidence or fitness, it all went wrong. Maybe we should have seen the signs after lockdown when other than two performances we did not look the same side. Indeed, maybe even the cracks were creeping in after Xmas with some narrow wins but not the same level of performance.
It seemed like the nightmare start to Wolves then snowballed into another defeat and then another and before you know it a relatively kind start fixture wise saw mostly defeats and then we had tough games and all of a sudden, we were stuck rock bottom.
I do think Wilder needed to lose his stubbornness not just in certain players being selected (maybe he had no choice due to the injuries which granted did not help – but only O’Connell of the main players was consistently not available the first 3 months) but the approach and formation. He continued to play the same way despite us shipping goals and not creating much at all. He just kept repeating that the system was fine but it was down to mistakes or small margins. The reality was that it was not. Even games we lost narrowly in most cases we deserved to lose. Even games we drew (Fulham/Brighton) we should have lost really. The excuses started to wear thin and then after such a gung-ho approach last season to the way we played and the way he spoke, we had this almost white flag mentality. He was openly saying other teams were better and had better players. This clearly irked the Prince as he was effectively saying the players were not good enough.
I think at this point he really started to lose any chance of turning things around. He looked drained and him being caught on camera after the abject defeat at Palace saying, ‘I can’t do this anymore’ was when I thought he will not be here much longer. He started to become more chippy in pre and post match stuff but more than this the way the players were approaching and performing suggested the belief had completely gone. I thought he would walk away a few times and it seems he had tried to. After he did not, I then thought he may remain till the end of the season and after we had a few better games, I thought at least he had found his mo-jo back (his impassioned ‘trust your mates’ after a rare win seemed like the old Wilder was back) but before you knew it, there were more spineless showings. Ability wise I concede some may have struggled to replicate the form of last season but even with this drop off, the Wilder oft used mantra of ‘out run, out tackle, out fight’ opponents was completely missing as his players now seemed incapable of even doing the basis.
When he left, I was not shocked. Maybe the timing a little. It had not been talked about that week but clearly things had been developing behind the scenes. The reaction seemed to be overwhelming in that the club had dropped a massive rick in allowing him to leave (whether he had resigned, been sacked or mutual decision). We will not know what really happened? Whether he just feel that he could not do anymore with the finances he had available or if he had just had enough or whether the relationship had completely broken down – maybe a bit of everything. It was a sad way for it to end.
I had hoped he would leave in different circumstances and as to quote him again ‘go out the front door’ but it felt like he had left out through the back door. I personally was disappointed he did not remain at least until the end of the season or even more give it one more go next season in the Championship. It is his club and this chance will never come again you do not feel. He will never work for the club again you would not think. It must have been something fairly significant to walk away from as he said ‘his dream job.’ We will see where he ends up next but as much as we thank him and can reflect (maybe more so later down the line) on what a time we had – then at the moment whilst I wish him well, I am not really that bothered where he ends up now. He will have been financially looked after and so maybe will take a break. I am not sure unless he adapts a bit that he will go on and maybe quite be the manager I thought he would. He needs to be more adaptable in terms of tactics but also may need to sometimes bite his lip at times and accept there maybe others above him whether I still think he is a fantastic manager but many in football will see him as the manager that oversaw a dreadful campaign and that is the more recent part of his career that people remember. Still, it is one bad season and he will get a chance to resurrect his reputation that went from as high as it can be to quite low but he probably still had a fair bit in the bank credit wise. Whether it is a lower-level Premier League club or as I feel more likely another Championship side, then it will be interesting where he turns up. For us we have to move on. We have no choice. It is sad and hard that he is no longer our manager – in a weird way (a bit like Warnock and Bassett) it seemed like he might be our manager forever – certainly for maybe 10 years+ but it ended far quicker than I hoped or envisaged. The problem is everything was set up around him, from the coaching staff, to scouting and the whole set up. The fact the club had no real plan seemingly for when this ended is not down to him.
Still, for all the criticism of this season and let’s be honest he and the players have made a right mess of it, we would not be there without him and them. They got us up there. 5 years ago, I just dreamed of being a mid-table Championship club again. Within 3 we were back in the top flight and a year later we were competing for Europe. It was all possible due to him. Maybe things had reached the end of a natural cycle and the in intensity and momentum could simply not be maintained but I think on time we will look back on what has been a remarkable period rather than the last 12 months. At the moment I am still a little irked by how he left and certain things he said and maybe there is an element of feeling he walked out on us a bit but I do not know his side totally and what I would say is that for all the criticism of things he had done and said recently; the previous 4 years and what he did far surpasses this. His statement he gave mid-April was classy but done through his agency. You guess there are things he would probably love to say but it may take years for his real thoughts to emerge. For him be interesting to see where he ends up after a break. There has been talk of Celtic and WBA and sure he will get a decent job so be interesting to see how he fares. I think he will show his unity and many of the qualities he has in all the jobs he has so far, but he will have to show some adaptability in terms of who he works under and perhaps be more open to certain things and less stubborn/insular in his ways.
He has been amazing for this football club and I will never forget some of the days/nights we had under his leadership. We will probably never again have such a run through the leagues and indeed the top league managed and captained by fans, proper Blades. We may get back up to the top league one day (hopefully sooner than the previous occasions we went down!) but it may never replicate the togetherness and feelings we had. The scenes around the Lane, London Road, the car park and the Town Hall are periods that are going to be hard to top. I really wanted him to be our manager for 10 years+ and create a legacy for the club forever but an incredible journey seemed to end too soon and quite suddenly from where we were a year ago. Still his position as one of the greatest Blades managers of all times is firmly set in stone and he is right there with Bassett for me in my lifetime.
Grade F (Last season A)
Paul Heckingbottom It was the back end of last season – end of July when Heckingbottom was appointed as U23 coach. It seemed a bit of a coup after we had seen Andy Hughes come and go quite quickly. He had been manager at Barnsley and done well and got the Leeds job but this did not go quite as well and he had a short stint in Scotland with Hibs. Maybe he did not want to go back into full time 1st team managing and had done well in coaching at University level and then at Barnsley coaching younger players. He had seemingly been successful at this aspect of the game. He made an impression with the u23’s and several players started to catch the eye. However, even he would not have thought he would be back as a first team manager at the Lane and in the Premier League. When Wilder left, Knill was probably too close to the outgoing manager and also there were doubts over his future too. Heckingbottom was given the job on a temporary basis but the speed of events and the Blades position in the table probably meant he would remain in caretaker charge for a fair few games and maybe even till the end of the season. It ended up with him managing eleven games including the FA Cup Quarter Final.
He seemed like a rabbit in the headlights as he joined up with the first team (needing to pass certain health tests for Covid) on the day of the game and United were blitzed in a real low point of the season. Even he admitted that everyone was a bit shocked. After a week of working with the team we saw a decent performance albeit a loss in the cup at Chelsea but then we were really poor at his former club Leeds. It did not help he had many key men missing but surely no one can blame him for the losing continues. The wheels had been set in motion a long time before.
He spoke well in his press conferences and was very honest and up front and seems a decent guy but quickly you realised he was another out of his depth at this level. He changed nothing and if anything, we got worse. Whatever he was saying, the players were not able or could not respond and it looked like they were just going through the motions. We looked completely rudderless and he seemed to have no authority, conviction or idea really. He looked clueless how to change things and now as well as losing we were losing hopelessly. We had one win against Brighton but for the most part the performances were completely insipid and the players form did not improve – it maybe got even worse individually and collectively (save for a few exceptions).
I was shocked her persisted with the same formation/style and certain players (Lundstram, Stevens, McBurnie) when he could have tried something different. We were losing anyway so give something else a go? Play a few of the kids he has worked with – maybe he knew they were a long way off? I just felt he came in and it was all the same. I am not sure whether he had any aspirations for the job but the results and performances showed quite quickly he will be returning to the u23’s so I thought but then they said he was on the shortlist after we beat Brighton and his stance seemed to change too. A hammering at Spurs then another pitiful showing at home to Palace. The local media bizarrely seemed behind him but he looked massively out of his depth. He then played a youngster, Jebbsion and tweaked the shape and we won in a much better showing. He then about this time started backpeddaling, saying he did not want the job or knew what his plans were or had always been? We finished our away season with another sub-par performance at Newcastle but then won at home to Burnley, so a nice way for him to bow out.
You would think he will go back to the u23’s but then be interesting to see what happens if we get a Director of Football and what the new manager does. Quite quickly you could see more new people arrive at the Academy/u23 level but Lester and him seem to be doing an ok job even without the Cat 1 status and facilities we need to progress so you would hope this area of the club has some stability at least in terms of personnel. Maybe he might get a taste to be a manager again though and you would think he could get a job in League 1/2 and even with the losses this experience puts him back into the spotlight for such positions if he wanted to go back to management. His spell in charge of us though has probably damaged his coaching/management CV.
Grade E+ (Last season NA)
*Note - this was written before the Jokanovic appointment – I have tried to update in sections but apologies if it refer to us not having a manager yet in sections!
Chris Wilder Last season I wrote the following in this section: ‘My words cannot do justice to what he has done to the club, for the team and the fans. Other coaching staff, players, backroom staff have certainly had major parts but he is the focal point and the leader of everything that has happened. He has been fantastic to the club and you cannot say enough what he has done for the club, team, players he has brought in/brought on and for the fans. He has basically completely transformed the club. In turn we are now liked by national and international football fans and media. He is so presentable and likeable. He always fronts up to the media and is funny, honest and self-depreciating too. He never gets ahead of himself and whilst confident, is not cocky or arrogant. His post match interviews remain very honest. He will say it like it is. He has at times occasionally even criticised an individual or the team a few times (Liverpool at home with Henderson or Liverpool away for the team) but less so this season and maybe kept things in house more and generally praises a ‘great group.’ That was until his Leicester rant which reminded me of Hull a few years ago! To be fair he has not had to criticise them much anyway as they do everything, he asks them to do. Often, he says exactly what most fans are thinking. He maybe has been questioned for throwing them under the bus a bit but that is his style and earned the right to say what he wants pretty much. He has embraced the challenge of going up against top level managers and was right in the mix for manager of the year until we maybe fell off a bit towards the end. It was always going to be hard to keep the momentum going and the break did not help us but then we seemed to get going and he outcoached some big clubs/managers but we just ran out of steam. At the end even he could not criticise too much as saw the players were doing their best but could not just keep to what they had done. We did fall away and it clearly rankled as he talked of us going to the summer as losers when in reality even, he knew that was not the case.’
A year later and he is no longer our manager and we are out of the top flight. So much has been discussed about Wilder’s accomplishments. He really was the architect of a simply fantastic time at the club. It was 4 absolutely amazing years where we achieved things most of us never thought possible. He made average players look amazing and galvanised the whole club. We were relevant again. He was our leader. Our messiah. Sure, there were things he did that the board, players and even fans may have got annoyed by but he backed it up. I felt we would go on and at be comfortable this season and the only fear was when he would be inevitably be poached by a bigger club who could realise his trophy ambitions or even the England job. He was one of the talks of the country. 6 months later and he was sadly seen as the next success story that simply could not maintain it. Was he another Paul Jewell, Nigel Adkins or David Wagner? We won’t know until his next managerial chapter is written.
What we do know is I never envisaged that when I walked out of Bramall Lane against Norwich City and we were 6thplace that the next time I returned to the Lane, Wilder would not be here and we would be back as a Championship club. The pandemic, injuries, lack of momentum, poor form, players believing their own hype and maybe even Wilder doing that also. Whatever could go wrong has gone wrong. I could debate so many things here and discuss what he or the club could have done differently. It is easy in hindsight. The recruitment has been billed as a big one but a year ago many of us would not have wanted major changes to the starting line-up. We wanted maybe a quality striker, another midfielder, a keeper of course and some decent back ups who would not see such a big drop off. Ironically, he signed a keeper we all seemed happy with it, he got a talented young striker (I think if we had signed Welbeck or Deeney instead at the time, Wilder and the club would have got criticised and said why did we not go for a younger option?) and some backs ups at wing back. We needed a midfielder but then he would not have known that players would have dropped off so much. Wilder can discuss the wages and maybe not being able to compete with some but still had decent funds really. It is clear most of his signings both last summer and the one before has not come off. He has spent a lot of money and not improved the side. Still even with the poor signings, the core of the Championship team had performed so well. No one would have though the midfield 3, Stevens and even Mousse/McBurnie would have dropped off and contributed so little. Some of the players had looked some of the best in their respective positions a year ago but now the likes of Fleck and Stevens turned into footballers who literally could barely do anything right. Whether it was complacency, confidence or fitness, it all went wrong. Maybe we should have seen the signs after lockdown when other than two performances we did not look the same side. Indeed, maybe even the cracks were creeping in after Xmas with some narrow wins but not the same level of performance.
It seemed like the nightmare start to Wolves then snowballed into another defeat and then another and before you know it a relatively kind start fixture wise saw mostly defeats and then we had tough games and all of a sudden, we were stuck rock bottom.
I do think Wilder needed to lose his stubbornness not just in certain players being selected (maybe he had no choice due to the injuries which granted did not help – but only O’Connell of the main players was consistently not available the first 3 months) but the approach and formation. He continued to play the same way despite us shipping goals and not creating much at all. He just kept repeating that the system was fine but it was down to mistakes or small margins. The reality was that it was not. Even games we lost narrowly in most cases we deserved to lose. Even games we drew (Fulham/Brighton) we should have lost really. The excuses started to wear thin and then after such a gung-ho approach last season to the way we played and the way he spoke, we had this almost white flag mentality. He was openly saying other teams were better and had better players. This clearly irked the Prince as he was effectively saying the players were not good enough.
I think at this point he really started to lose any chance of turning things around. He looked drained and him being caught on camera after the abject defeat at Palace saying, ‘I can’t do this anymore’ was when I thought he will not be here much longer. He started to become more chippy in pre and post match stuff but more than this the way the players were approaching and performing suggested the belief had completely gone. I thought he would walk away a few times and it seems he had tried to. After he did not, I then thought he may remain till the end of the season and after we had a few better games, I thought at least he had found his mo-jo back (his impassioned ‘trust your mates’ after a rare win seemed like the old Wilder was back) but before you knew it, there were more spineless showings. Ability wise I concede some may have struggled to replicate the form of last season but even with this drop off, the Wilder oft used mantra of ‘out run, out tackle, out fight’ opponents was completely missing as his players now seemed incapable of even doing the basis.
When he left, I was not shocked. Maybe the timing a little. It had not been talked about that week but clearly things had been developing behind the scenes. The reaction seemed to be overwhelming in that the club had dropped a massive rick in allowing him to leave (whether he had resigned, been sacked or mutual decision). We will not know what really happened? Whether he just feel that he could not do anymore with the finances he had available or if he had just had enough or whether the relationship had completely broken down – maybe a bit of everything. It was a sad way for it to end.
I had hoped he would leave in different circumstances and as to quote him again ‘go out the front door’ but it felt like he had left out through the back door. I personally was disappointed he did not remain at least until the end of the season or even more give it one more go next season in the Championship. It is his club and this chance will never come again you do not feel. He will never work for the club again you would not think. It must have been something fairly significant to walk away from as he said ‘his dream job.’ We will see where he ends up next but as much as we thank him and can reflect (maybe more so later down the line) on what a time we had – then at the moment whilst I wish him well, I am not really that bothered where he ends up now. He will have been financially looked after and so maybe will take a break. I am not sure unless he adapts a bit that he will go on and maybe quite be the manager I thought he would. He needs to be more adaptable in terms of tactics but also may need to sometimes bite his lip at times and accept there maybe others above him whether I still think he is a fantastic manager but many in football will see him as the manager that oversaw a dreadful campaign and that is the more recent part of his career that people remember. Still, it is one bad season and he will get a chance to resurrect his reputation that went from as high as it can be to quite low but he probably still had a fair bit in the bank credit wise. Whether it is a lower-level Premier League club or as I feel more likely another Championship side, then it will be interesting where he turns up. For us we have to move on. We have no choice. It is sad and hard that he is no longer our manager – in a weird way (a bit like Warnock and Bassett) it seemed like he might be our manager forever – certainly for maybe 10 years+ but it ended far quicker than I hoped or envisaged. The problem is everything was set up around him, from the coaching staff, to scouting and the whole set up. The fact the club had no real plan seemingly for when this ended is not down to him.
Still, for all the criticism of this season and let’s be honest he and the players have made a right mess of it, we would not be there without him and them. They got us up there. 5 years ago, I just dreamed of being a mid-table Championship club again. Within 3 we were back in the top flight and a year later we were competing for Europe. It was all possible due to him. Maybe things had reached the end of a natural cycle and the in intensity and momentum could simply not be maintained but I think on time we will look back on what has been a remarkable period rather than the last 12 months. At the moment I am still a little irked by how he left and certain things he said and maybe there is an element of feeling he walked out on us a bit but I do not know his side totally and what I would say is that for all the criticism of things he had done and said recently; the previous 4 years and what he did far surpasses this. His statement he gave mid-April was classy but done through his agency. You guess there are things he would probably love to say but it may take years for his real thoughts to emerge. For him be interesting to see where he ends up after a break. There has been talk of Celtic and WBA and sure he will get a decent job so be interesting to see how he fares. I think he will show his unity and many of the qualities he has in all the jobs he has so far, but he will have to show some adaptability in terms of who he works under and perhaps be more open to certain things and less stubborn/insular in his ways.
He has been amazing for this football club and I will never forget some of the days/nights we had under his leadership. We will probably never again have such a run through the leagues and indeed the top league managed and captained by fans, proper Blades. We may get back up to the top league one day (hopefully sooner than the previous occasions we went down!) but it may never replicate the togetherness and feelings we had. The scenes around the Lane, London Road, the car park and the Town Hall are periods that are going to be hard to top. I really wanted him to be our manager for 10 years+ and create a legacy for the club forever but an incredible journey seemed to end too soon and quite suddenly from where we were a year ago. Still his position as one of the greatest Blades managers of all times is firmly set in stone and he is right there with Bassett for me in my lifetime.
Grade F (Last season A)
Paul Heckingbottom It was the back end of last season – end of July when Heckingbottom was appointed as U23 coach. It seemed a bit of a coup after we had seen Andy Hughes come and go quite quickly. He had been manager at Barnsley and done well and got the Leeds job but this did not go quite as well and he had a short stint in Scotland with Hibs. Maybe he did not want to go back into full time 1st team managing and had done well in coaching at University level and then at Barnsley coaching younger players. He had seemingly been successful at this aspect of the game. He made an impression with the u23’s and several players started to catch the eye. However, even he would not have thought he would be back as a first team manager at the Lane and in the Premier League. When Wilder left, Knill was probably too close to the outgoing manager and also there were doubts over his future too. Heckingbottom was given the job on a temporary basis but the speed of events and the Blades position in the table probably meant he would remain in caretaker charge for a fair few games and maybe even till the end of the season. It ended up with him managing eleven games including the FA Cup Quarter Final.
He seemed like a rabbit in the headlights as he joined up with the first team (needing to pass certain health tests for Covid) on the day of the game and United were blitzed in a real low point of the season. Even he admitted that everyone was a bit shocked. After a week of working with the team we saw a decent performance albeit a loss in the cup at Chelsea but then we were really poor at his former club Leeds. It did not help he had many key men missing but surely no one can blame him for the losing continues. The wheels had been set in motion a long time before.
He spoke well in his press conferences and was very honest and up front and seems a decent guy but quickly you realised he was another out of his depth at this level. He changed nothing and if anything, we got worse. Whatever he was saying, the players were not able or could not respond and it looked like they were just going through the motions. We looked completely rudderless and he seemed to have no authority, conviction or idea really. He looked clueless how to change things and now as well as losing we were losing hopelessly. We had one win against Brighton but for the most part the performances were completely insipid and the players form did not improve – it maybe got even worse individually and collectively (save for a few exceptions).
I was shocked her persisted with the same formation/style and certain players (Lundstram, Stevens, McBurnie) when he could have tried something different. We were losing anyway so give something else a go? Play a few of the kids he has worked with – maybe he knew they were a long way off? I just felt he came in and it was all the same. I am not sure whether he had any aspirations for the job but the results and performances showed quite quickly he will be returning to the u23’s so I thought but then they said he was on the shortlist after we beat Brighton and his stance seemed to change too. A hammering at Spurs then another pitiful showing at home to Palace. The local media bizarrely seemed behind him but he looked massively out of his depth. He then played a youngster, Jebbsion and tweaked the shape and we won in a much better showing. He then about this time started backpeddaling, saying he did not want the job or knew what his plans were or had always been? We finished our away season with another sub-par performance at Newcastle but then won at home to Burnley, so a nice way for him to bow out.
You would think he will go back to the u23’s but then be interesting to see what happens if we get a Director of Football and what the new manager does. Quite quickly you could see more new people arrive at the Academy/u23 level but Lester and him seem to be doing an ok job even without the Cat 1 status and facilities we need to progress so you would hope this area of the club has some stability at least in terms of personnel. Maybe he might get a taste to be a manager again though and you would think he could get a job in League 1/2 and even with the losses this experience puts him back into the spotlight for such positions if he wanted to go back to management. His spell in charge of us though has probably damaged his coaching/management CV.
Grade E+ (Last season NA)
