If Not BB, Who?

[kruddler]

Who does the review?
Who decides whether to follow through with the recommendations of the review?
Who decides what action to take against those who initiated the plan in contrast to the reviews recommendations?

1: Independent review panel headed by a Brian Cook or similar.
2: The club/board are paying for a review, I expect the board and president to follow through and I would
have a member of the review panel attached to the board to monitor progression and the club to have regular follow ups.
3: Those who initiated the plan who were still in office after the review along with any new staff employed would initiate
the new recommendations. This isnt the Waffen SS we are conducting a review not a purge.

Thats a very PG rated disney movie wrapped up with a nice little bow.

Reality is much different.

A review will find that someone, somewhere made the wrong call on something. Be that anyone from the president, to the ceo, to the board as a whole, to the coach or coaching assistants, recruiters and list managers, fitness staff etc.
Someone somewhere was responsible for giving the above person that role/responsibility that ultimately f***ed up. Are they now held accountable too? What about the person that hired that person?

eg. Lets say review shows our football department is not functioning correctly. Perhaps its suggested that we have too many people controlling the midfield area which is leading to confusion. What do we do?
1. Do we sack/fire the weakest link in that midfield coaching group?
2. Do we move that person into a different role at the club?
3. Do we blame Bolton for structuring the staff in that manner and realise he is in above his head?
4. Do we blame the bloke who OK'd the structure of the football department and ultimately allowed this problem to occur?
5. Do we blame the guy who hired the guy to oversee the football department as he hired someone who was unfit to do that role?
etc

In the process of doing this, someones nose will get out of joint (if not multiple peoples). Perhaps a player might lose his favourite coach. Perhaps that coach jumps ship next year. Perhaps that player follows suit. Perhaps the overall gains expected from this reshuffling does not yield any improvement in results/functioning. Perhaps it ultimately has a negative effect.

You can play the 'what if' game and go through millions of permutations of what could and could not happen one way or another....and all of that is based on someones opinion, that may not be any more correct than you, I, or the people in charge currently.