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Someone with a deep, intimate knowledge and understanding of not only the club and its principles, but also how the game works from both a footballing and business perspective?
Clearly not going to be Evans' cup of tea. Too much of a risk he may actually be good at it.
Seriously though, if we did go down the Dyer/Butcher route then getting Milton in as some kind of DoF would seem a no-brainer wouldn't it?
Someone with a deep, intimate knowledge and understanding of not only the club and its principles, but also how the game works from both a footballing and business perspective?
Clearly not going to be Evans' cup of tea. Too much of a risk he may actually be good at it.
Seriously though, if we did go down the Dyer/Butcher route then getting Milton in as some kind of DoF would seem a no-brainer wouldn't it?
ive said that to him previously when having a beer.... he'd be perfect for the position, but I got the feeling he'd struggle to work under certain people
'Classy', something that is seriously lacking at our club currently.
Not very classy of the one-time paint sprayer to completely ignore the man who got him into professional football in the first place by signing him from Bury Town. As for Sheepshanks, don’t get me started.
Not very classy of the one-time paint sprayer to completely ignore the man who got him into professional football in the first place by signing him from Bury Town. As for Sheepshanks, don’t get me started.
Eh?
Football League First Division / Premier League
Champions (1): 1961—62 - Runners-up (2): 1980—81, 1981—82
Football League Second Division / EFL Championship
Champions (3): 1960—61, 1967—68, 1991—92 - Play-off winners (1): 1999—2000
Football League Third Division / EFL League One Champions (2): 1953—54, 1956—57 - Southern League Champions (1): 1936—37
FA Cup Winners (1): 1977—78 - Texaco Cup Winners (1): 1972—73
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League Winners (1): 1980—81
Adding this to the Milts thread as it feels very similar, gentle, polite but more importantly to the point. Our heroes are gathering.
Russell Osman makes a very good point.
I can easily name our first 11 from that time, their shirt numbers, style of play etc.
I certainly haven't been able to do that for a long while. As he says, the same players played week in, week out and were generally only changed through injury. They had an understanding of each other on the pitch and played as a settled team . Such a far cry from now.
Hmmm, Milton was quite happy to be complicit in Evans running down of the club, just because he's right about Lambert doesn't give him a clean slate for that.
Hmmm, Milton was quite happy to be complicit in Evans running down of the club, just because he's right about Lambert doesn't give him a clean slate for that.
Hmm...are all Town employees during the Evans reign equally complicit? My problem with Evans isn't his supposed under-funding of the club (how many £ms can we expect a businessman/investor to be willing to lose each year) but his complete lack of a football strategy.
Hmm...are all Town employees during the Evans reign equally complicit? My problem with Evans isn't his supposed under-funding of the club (how many £ms can we expect a businessman/investor to be willing to lose each year) but his complete lack of a football strategy.
To an extent, but - arguably - some are more so than others. That the largest Academy sponsor later withdrew all funding from the club is perhaps telling.
Yes, agreed on that point. It's staggering that after 13 years, repeated underperformance and a succession of managers, only one of whom has been any good, we're still broadly doing the same thing as in early-2008 only with lower expenditure.
To an extent, but - arguably - some are more so than others. That the largest Academy sponsor later withdrew all funding from the club is perhaps telling.
Yes, agreed on that point. It's staggering that after 13 years, repeated underperformance and a succession of managers, only one of whom has been any good, we're still broadly doing the same thing as in early-2008 only with lower expenditure.
Indeed, Evans has continued with pretty much the same strategy, with the one exception that after he discovered how much money Keane & Clegg were wasting, he took personal control of transfers. All I think this did was create a huge amount of dithering. I would scrap the academy & move to a similar model to Brentford, but apparently Evans likes the academy & making a change like this would involve hiring competent people to run the new strategy.
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