Why the board is culpalble

[Crafty Canary 495]

Every manager has been a rookie at some time. It used to be that they gained their experience at non-league then lower league level. Martin O''Neil and Alex Ferguson are examples. We could not afford the risk of a rookie gaining experience this season and indeed in any season at this level. Southampton ripped their squad apart this close season and many expected them to struggle. However, importantly they appointed an experienced manager in Koeman and are achieving even more so far this season.

Is our squad the best in the Championship? If not, it is certainly amongst the best so the fact they appear so dis functional at the moment is down to tactics and that is down to Neil Adams.

Both Bowkett and McNally have described Lambert as a very difficult man to work with. Presumably he was too demanding for our board who seem to be happier with those who won''t rock the Lil'' old Naarwich boat. We desperately need a man who will give the players a clear game plan in which each understands his role and one who won''t stand for any nonsense from the staff or the board. Step forward Tony Pulis?

[barclay_boy111 0]

Here here!

[Cantiaci Canary 556]

Would ANY other club in the top four divisions have hired Neil Adams as first team manager last summer? No.

The board''s claims that there was NO ONE better than Hughton available in January and NO ONE better than Adams in May casts SERIOUS doubt over how well they search the market and / or their honesty.

[Highland Canary 76]

The trouble is many were saying exactly this in the Summer Crafty. Can''t disagree with anything you suggest except to add that the board singularly failed to act over Hughton last season, it appointed both Gunn and then Adams, what evidence is there that the board will learn from its errors? Precious little.

[Katie Borkins 1]

Important to remember this is on McNally and Bowkett''s heads.The whole "we searched Europe and Neil (Adams) was the outstanding candidate" phrase should come back to haunt them, really.Bowkett press conference here, lest we forget:http://www.frequency.com/video/watch-chairman-alan-bowkett-reveals-pan/170533830/-/5-17798850

Especially when it''s quite obvious something was lined up (possibly Mackay) and fell through - causing the prolonged delay and *that awkward Radio Norfolk interview*.Bowkett''s press conference quotes above - and let''s also remember  Chief executive David McNally said: "We looked at the market

extensively but in the end we realised that Neil was the outstanding

candidate.

"He was the first one to be offered the job and no-one else turned the job down.

"Our ambition is to get back to the Premier League and we have appointed Neil with that very much in mind."

[daly 500]

The BOD went for the cheap option, 

Pulis was available and managers like Howe could have been persuaded if the money was right.

[nutty nigel 7,509]

Well there we have it. Thank you for finding that Bor.

[Katie Borkins 1]

Bowkett: "The way I look at it is we had a very strong internal candidate... you have to benchmark against what''s available in the marketplace - we reviewed the German market, Italian market, Spanish market, and the whole of the British Isles to look for the candidate who stood the best chance of getting us promotion as soon as possible."Hmm.

[Highland Canary 76]

I suspect that the essential criteria in the job application form were somewhat lacking. EG you must have successfully managed a first-team before.

[ZLF 271]

Any managerial appointment is a gamble, even more so when its their first role as a manager; that does not mean such appointments should not be made and so I struggle to criticise the board for making Adams appointment too much, even though my doubts against it were loudly voiced in the summer.

For me the board become culpable if they fail to act quickly when it becomes clear that adams is not going to meet their seasons aims; a growing number of people think that point has arrived; many do not.

Where the board sit is not clear, but the tipping point must be getting close.

[ZLF 271]

For me most people under estimate what a good manager brings.

There are too many examples of good squads not winning things because of poor management

there are some examples of good squads winning things with decent managers

but rarest of all are average squads succeeding due to exceptional managers. Dyche last season an example, rodgers and lambert before, perhaps mccarthy this.

We have a good squad under-performing due to bad management - we can change this.

[wooster 134]

I imagine there may have been other aspects of the job offer (low salary, small transfer kitty, an unwillingness to pay large compensation to a club for its manager,etc) that would severely reduce the potential candidates.

At that stage NA may well have been the the best option.

[ZLF 271]

but the managers salary isnt low and the transfer money spent was in excess of most clubs in the champs?