(08-15-2021, 02:34 AM)PaulP date Wrote:Yes, I tend to agree. Especially when covid hit, it became even more important (I understand clubs had to reduce spending). If he did approach the club for help, and they told him they have no money, then sacking him becomes even more problematic IMO.We are run by a board and executive that have a profit first emphasis, that means commercial decisions over football decisions, it explains so much.
When COVID hit, profits were down and costs were cut, the assistants got the kybosh, the exact wrong thing to do from a football perspective!
Nthmond have done one thing better than any other club, they left the football to the football staff, and the commercial to the commercial staff, and the two never overlap. Not even their Gale interferes in the football and he is far more qualified than most, I wonder if that compartmentalising ethos is why Liddle ended up with us, because he seems to micro-manage!
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