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McKenna: risk versus gamble 14:37 - May 27 with 830 views

If McKenna moves to Brighton- or any other club- he will need to prove himself all over again. Forget everything he has accomplished so far and risk it all on a throw of the dice, that his system will work equally well at another club at the highest level of football, because that will be the expectation. He will have abandoned an organisation and an entire town that has committed itself to providing everything he has needed to get to this point, with added commitments to long-term investments to keep it that way. And he will not have the twin pillars of back-to-back promotions to lean on if times get tough because those will instantly be part of his past and not a enduring part of his present should he remain at Town.
At ITFC, he has time and support to build a strong and enduring foundation with an organisation that shares his vision and provides the "oxygen" to continue to help him grow.
If he chucks all that away, he risks everything on quick success. And what would that success have to look like to charm the fanbase the way he has at Ipswich Town? Is there that much headroom at Brighton for him to make that sort of dramatic improvement? The headroom remains in our favour.
Kieran has shown a significant tolerance for risk, but there's a difference between a risk and a gamble.