Football Department Review

[LP]

I don't mind attracting top-end talent, but I do like to see them come with some credentials or history in terms of supporting the club.
We don't want fly-by-nighters who flit in and flit out once their interest wanes.

The problem here may be this is the new way, if we want to be professional hired guns are part of the process, the business and professional sporting world are now far too complex for all the very best solutions to be internally generated.

Nobody is claiming the board will be over-run with external forces, under these rules they would still be very much a minority.

I think fans are easily persuaded by the who of it, for example if our board come out tomorrow and announced they wanted Leigh Matthews to join most fans would be over the moon in support, but if it was Neil Balme the same fans would tear down the pavilion, despite both candidates having similar qualifications and achievements in football administration. The board needs to be colder in it's judgements than the fans.