So its bye bye Hock. Inevitable I'm afraid, the only mystery being the sudden change of mind over the Bank Holiday.
As to why anyone would want to take over, plenty of reasons. Whatever the naysayers might think, we have a completely different squad profile to last year's ageing collective. Cellino has gone pretty methodically through the process of building a squad that should be competitive. It includes the bright lights from last year, Dawson, Cook and Mowatt, he's bought in a striker most people are happy with in Sharpe and another that had a decent scoring record in Italy, he's tried to address the creativity problem by bringing in Sloth and hopefully Adryan. I don't see much there to complain about. Hockaday was a different problem. Obsessed with the diamond, he had no plan B and once the pressure was on, did what most people would have done, turned "Can Win" into "Must not Lose" in his mad mind and reverted to the old guard to shore up the defence, leaving most of the newcomers on the bench. Quite rightly sacked. To the future, I hope Cellino invests in a decent coach, because that is what is needed. In every respect except for the choice of manager. Cellino has been correct in his thinking so far. Turned the ship around financially, invested in a decent, young squad, initiated the buyback of the ground. Trimmed the fat from the admin staff. We don't need some old school manager to come in and run the club. We need, as we have done for years now, a coach with progressive ideas who will come in and stamp his authority on the squad and the game plan. Whether that coach is Italian or not I don't care, but the only one of the ten or so that people keep going on about I'd give a second thought to is Simon Grayson and he hasn't exactly set the world on fire since leaving Leeds. And lastly, a new set of fans might not go amiss. Positivity, realism and pragmatism are in short supply right now. People are hollering for O'Leary to return. Or the racist homophobe Mackay. My worst fear is we'll get the manager we deserve. _______________________________________________ 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
