Gashead Jamie Hedges

Interesting.

People can debate whether Widdrington was the right man and/or young Mr Hedges, but when the new owners talk about club staff this what they mean isn't it. Having these positions within the infrastucture of the club that aren't dictated by the manager

It’s an interesting question with no distinct answer.

So many of the worlds most successful enterprises are a one-man show. Tesla. Ryanair. The person in the top role has a huge impact on everything, why? Companies are a pyramid of decision making so the quality from the top is enormously important. It’s why they earn stupid money. We might like to think we could do it but few of us can.

There’s a Chinese saying I think which goes “A camel is a horse designed by a committee” I.e the camel has the distance, the ability to survive, some speed…it’s like the designers tried to please everyone. A horse is more like a single Vision - get me something which goes well, that’s it.

Any dealings you’ve ever had with large, old school industries: Banks, unionised manufacturing, anything in the public sector, will know they move at the speed of a lumbering pregnant cow and the myriad committees and bureaucrats paralyse everything in an orgy of ass-covering and politics. Light, nimble companies with one, or a few influences eat them alive.

I’m not convinced on a committee based football club. The wriddlington, Starnes and Garner combo seemed to be the result of that. I know there is much, much ire with Joey and I get that, and there’s incentive there to pretend all was well until he got here but man, come on. It was a complete shambles from top to bottom. That squad was the most insipid, weak and purposeless shower of sh I’ve ever seen.

Why? Someone had a job to look at stats and buy players off that. Without having anyone decent to do the qualitative work of understanding the player, their attitude, who’s carrying the dressing room. That’s the peril of moving from a dictatorship to a series of committees. Someone with a spreadsheet and “data” with the inability to look at the wider picture getting involved.

I’ve seen these data people ruin several companies and turn a very good operation into a chatbot and outsourced admin conglomerate of sh** because no matter how well you understand data, you need a long career in whichever business you’re in to actually interpret it.
Joey at least had that.

If you plot wasp stings against ice cream sales you’ll see a correlation. Data analysts running ice cream companies would be aiming to buy and release wasps given a chance. That’s where it can lead!

Yes he is

No we didn't once we lost Nicholson, we were relegated. The fact he's struggled to turn things around this season perhaps suggests he wasn't that good a L1 manager, who knows 🤷

I thought TW was brought in by DC after they worked together at Salisbury? Wriddington then brought in his son as a player, which always seemed an odd move.

Not sure as a club that we've ever had a DoF/HoR and coaching staff independent from the manager.

TW seems a good example of how the DoF and manager have to work together as a team, under DC & GC it seemed to work but under PT & JB it was a total flop.

It's not like you can forget PT chasing Stockdale for an entire window!

TW & MS were the main culprits for us going from top 6 prospects to relegation contenders. If Maher had replaced GC we might have never suffered relegation.

In the three months with us he had the Jan ‘21 window. We needed a CF, he spent the window chasing Jayden Stockley, failed to get him or any striker and signed George Williams, a full back he’d worked with at MKD. Our fate looked desperate. JB came in and accused everyone of negligence and we were completely bu******.

UTG!

TW & MS were in control of recruitment and failed hopelessly over the two windows. The fact that they both departed shortly after our relegation suggests I'm not the only one who felt they were reasonable.