To be honest, my asiprations for Leeds manager are still a bit higher than "surely he knows more than me about running a football club".
I've just hired a bloke to fix my roof at home. When I hired him my thoughts as I shelled out the cash weren't "well as long as he's better at repairing a roof than me that's fine". I want him to be bloody good at mending the roof and better than other people who are paid to do that job (ideally at a lower price than them, but ultimately better to pay more for quality of knowing you will have a job done well). Anyway, time will tell. Recruitment wise still feel our emphasis should be on 2 more strikers rather than one, and we are crippling lacking in pace and players who are comfortable in wide positions (as opposed to forwards or ncetral midfielders being shoe-horned into those roles). Rumours of sale of Lees and purchase of replacement sound encouraging - identifying weak links and addressing them. On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:31 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > To be fair about 90% of what players and managers say can be put into this > category > The anti Hock stuff made me smile yesterday when some idiot on waccoe > posted that Bryam had injured his hamstring and would be out for weeks - > the immediate response was to blame Hockaday and his training methods ! > > I don't really get the agenda against him - he will not be here long , we > have averaged a manager a year for the last few years, both the Prem and > Championship have seen managers getting sacked sooner and sooner (average > apart from Wenger is around 13months iirc) and Cellino used 31 coaches in > 22 years inc caretakers. > So unless he turns out to be very good indeed (unlikely) he is not going > to be here long. Unlike previous 'managers' he is not in charge of buying > players and so unlike Warnock especailly and Grayson, McDermott etc to a > lesser extent, when he goes we will not be left with his deadwood - we will > have players who the boss (Cellino) still likes. No player is signing for > Hockaday (again unlike eg Kenny for Warnock) so again his being sacked will > have no real aftermath > > For me Hockaday is an odd choice but whoever we got would have a limited > shelf life and who knows he may be decent. He has spent 40years in the game > as a player and assistant backroom boy so he MUST surely know more than us > about the running of a football club and how to deal with players > > Dave > > > ________________________________ > From: John Lee <[email protected]> > To: LEEDSLIST <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, 30 July 2014, 13:02 > Subject: [LU] Tactical Genius quote no 1 > > > I was really disappointed with the goal we conceded because we had a spare > man on the edge of the box. If you are a spare man that means that they > have got somebody spare and the ball went to him and he put it in" said > David Hockaday. > > Coming soon - why goals have nets! > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: > http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > John 'Grampa' Sykes > Rest In Peace old lad > 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 > MARCHING ON TOGETHER > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: > http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > John 'Grampa' Sykes > Rest In Peace old lad > 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 > MARCHING ON TOGETHER > _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] John 'Grampa' Sykes Rest In Peace old lad 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 MARCHING ON TOGETHER
