Football Department Review

[northernblue]

I just hope we stick with Teague and find some gun assistant coaches to support him and, in particular, run the midfield.

We saw what it did for Kennedy and Dow when Barker walked out. We need fresh ideas across all lines but in particular our midfield is our biggest issue.

You don’t have a clue of Barkers strengths, weaknesses or what he did or didn’t do.
Purely by the length of his tenure it shows beyond doubt that he was universally liked and respected by management and players. In the end that length of tenure was likely what finished him off given that it wasn’t unreasonable that “something” needed to change.
Maybe the playing improvement you saw was simply the result of players seeing someone who they liked being booted and the players responded to that rocket.