Honestly not confident that a head coach can operate at stoke under our current club structure.
The level of intricacy that it will demand, all parts working together optimally... Then look at our club structure .....
How can it even work? Recruitment is a disaster. Can he really coach these players????????? I hope he doesn't lose his shit like mad Nath for example
It's an interesting question, which depends partly on the respective roles of the head coach and the D of F, and partly on the willingness of key people to work together and respect each other.
Even in the strange world of football, SS sacking was unusual in several respects. It came immediately
after the closure of a transfer window so the new head coach could have no input into recruitment at this stage; and there was very little discontent in the fan base calling for a change - rather the reverse, most fans, me included, were astonished by the decision and its timing.
It was also unusual in the willingness, even the enthusiasm, of SJW to publicly own the decision. Instead of the normal relatively brief statement from the Club or the Chairman, we had a newly-appointed D of F commenting about his willingness to take tough decisions etc etc Why did he feel the need to do that ?
Narcis' extended interview with the Club media showed that he has the gift of the gab, but he wasn't asked the key questions which an independent journalist might have asked, i.e will you have complete control of team selection and tactics ? What will be your role in player recruitment - will have the final say on that ?
Unless there is absolute clarity on those which all parties accept it could all go wrong again next time there is an Oxford-type performance which the D of F is unhappy about.
I also found the interview a bit odd in other respects - e.g his talk of how he could see it in the eyes of JC and SJW how much they love the club. It was almost as if he was talking about inseparable twins, not the Chairman and another employee.
I watched the TV coverage of the Hull game which had a very positive feature about the work of the Community Trust, which boss, Adrian Hurst has recently lost his job after 30+ years at the Club. I would like to give tribute and thanks to him for his work over the years, including support he has given to Nello, among others. Given the positive TV piece, he must have done something right.
The feature included a contribution from SJW. I though that was odd because I wouldn't have thought that the Community Trust would come under his remit as opposed to Simon King ? I may be reading too much into all this, but I also thought it odd that he watched the game for the front row of the Director's box next to the Chairman. You might normally expect that the other Directors to be there ? SJW certainly seems to be at the centre of everything at the moment.
As fans, of course we will get behind the team and the new Head Coach and hope that things will improve on the pitch, and that there is a period of stability off it.
. I'm thinking of names like Chester & Gayle for example.
