Don't most teams have the youth teamers working and doing things like ball boy, cleaning other players boots etc?
THIS
as much as i liked PS and his vision he just did not get the job done. and he cannot blame it all on sisu
Of course they do, but when delusion kicks in they don't. How anyone can defend this egomaniac is beyond me, can't even beat Worcester. Pathetic.
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sp...s/steven-pressley-would-kept-coventry-8714280
Dropped us into the relegation zone for a laugh, would of saved us! Yeah right!
Don't most teams have the youth teamers working and doing things like ball boy, cleaning other players boots etc?
I can imagine it being 'beneath' them these days. You've got kids under 16 turning up with agents, wouldn't be surprised if that kind of thing wasn't allowed anymore.
So either everyone does it and its a non story or its not the done thing anymore and is an example of SP's lack of man management.
I think your right about Pressley being given a pool of target and being told pick from that lot, although I think part of the problem was Pressleys lack of knowledge and contacts in the english game as well as lack of a scouting network meant often he failed to draw up a short list of his own targets and thus this is why he was being told here is your shortlist pick from it. I think he would have been given the same freedom Mowbray was promised if he'd been able to draw up a short list of targets he wanted.SP had a difficult job to do in extraordinary and ever changing circumstances and for a good period of time he did that well and the good results were flowing playing some of the best football that the club had played in decades. I'm not convinced that he was responsible for identifying signings, more a case of being told here's your choices who do you want from this bunch. He certainly didn't have the freedom TM has clearly needed to negotiate before signing up full time.
Having said that he had become part of the problem and it was the right time for him to go. Only problem I see is that the bigger parts of the problem are still here.
Personally I hold no malice towards SP and wish him all the best in whatever it is he does next.
I can imagine it being 'beneath' them these days. You've got kids under 16 turning up with agents, wouldn't be surprised if that kind of thing wasn't allowed anymore.
So either everyone does it and its a non story or its not the done thing anymore and is an example of SP's lack of man management.
It would be more a reflection of the FA's lack of management than SP's I would say. If true it's a ridiculous situation to let happen in the first place and a lost tradition of a football apprenticeship. The likes of Shearer and Beckham did it, it could go some way as to why the England team is full of premadonna's.
I think your right about Pressley being given a pool of target and being told pick from that lot, although I think part of the problem was Pressleys lack of knowledge and contacts in the english game as well as lack of a scouting network meant often he failed to draw up a short list of his own targets and thus this is why he was being told here is your shortlist pick from it. I think he would have been given the same freedom Mowbray was promised if he'd been able to draw up a short list of targets he wanted.
It's more than that though. TM clearly signed on the understanding that he gained freedom of the budget. Something you can only assume from that that previous manager's didn't have the luxury of. So if we didn't have a proper scouting system was that down to SP or the person who had control of the budget?
I can't believe mark Robins let Waggot select players for him once he was actually ensconced in the role.
How many players actually came and went during MR's time with us?
Can't say. Loads of initial loans I think. Clarke and Moussa. Adams? Don't know.
Was McGoldrick not a MR signing?Harsh to slag pressley off.. He had lost the plot at the end of his reign but you can not fault his loyalty and if he put his foot down with the board would prob be in a decent position.. Mowbray came in and demanded a lot of changes I.e training ground etc scoring system which obviously wasn't being budgeted before which isn't Presley's fault. Mowbray defiantly wouldn't have managed us at shitfields when there getting other job offers and deal with point deductions etc.. But he was right to be sacks in the end. Made some decent signings in Pennington and Samuel for sure though also mcgoldrick obrien Reda all good players so can't slag him off to much.
Was McGoldrick not a MR signing?
Was McGoldrick not a MR signing?
Even before Robins mate, ccfclinney got that one way wrong.
Totally agree with that!My fault About that !!
When we knew pressley had really lost it was when he released Carl baker that was just crazy !!
It's more than that though. TM clearly signed on the understanding that he gained freedom of the budget. Something you can only assume from that that previous manager's didn't have the luxury of. So if we didn't have a proper scouting system was that down to SP or the person who had control of the budget?
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