Now is the time to perform a miracle Jesus
Posted: 22 Feb 2014, 22:15
Very rare poster, but seasoned follower of this forum.
There seems little more that can be said about the current state of our football club that would provide any insight or solace in this very troubled time.
Much is and has been discussed about the quality, or lack of, evidenced by our previous two managers, but those periods are in the past, albeit there is a belief that we are carrying a legacy of their tenures.
We have to concentrate on the here and now because we cannot change the past. Our current manager is the populace choice Chris "Jesus" Hargreaves, lauded before and at the time of his appointment as an expected "saviour" of the club and our seemingly inexorable descent in to the eternal fires of non-league football.
I must confess to not becoming a disciple when his appointment was pressed for by, what appeared to be, the masses. My view at that time was he was a really nice bloke, good social skills, a face for camera but lacked EXPERIENCE.
My view of his abilities have not changed since his first game in charge. He speaks well in interview and his passion for the club is unquestionable. But does he have the ability to influence the future?.....I have seen no evidence to suggest that he has.
We benefited from the "dead cat bounce" and won a couple of games, but since that time, for me, he has not evidenced the tactical "nous" required, the charisma to energise and motivate a team of footballers to perform to the best of their abilities, or the ba**s to make tough decisions. I am aware that his raw material is a group of club "legends", journeymen and higher league youngsters with little/no experience of a relegation scrap. But I believe that someone with a natural managerial ability would be able to show some progress after 2 months in the job.
Notwithstanding the quality of the tools he has available he has yet to adequately demonstrate to me that he is a man who can manage in a crisis.
At the time I was, and remain, of the view that the board appointed at haste and we will all repent at leisure, their decision spurred on by public opinion, and if CH really is Jesus he needs to open his book of miracles and pluck one out. Given the poor quality of football (I struggle to describe what I have witnessed in the last few weeks as that) he has engineered since his appointment I am beginning to think that his "legend" status as Jesus is over stated and he is actually a simple man.
Before I bring down a hailstorm of fire and bile on myself, I do not have a definitive answer to the problem, but do feel that a short term appointment of a firefighter with CH as his assistant may have worked better for us, with Jesus rising to the exalted position of manager at a future date having learnt from someone with experience.
I apologise for the length of this epistle, and it has been written as a form of personal catharsis rather than a search for salvation and I do feel a little better now.
I sincerely hope that Jesus can find that miracle and find it NOW.
There seems little more that can be said about the current state of our football club that would provide any insight or solace in this very troubled time.
Much is and has been discussed about the quality, or lack of, evidenced by our previous two managers, but those periods are in the past, albeit there is a belief that we are carrying a legacy of their tenures.
We have to concentrate on the here and now because we cannot change the past. Our current manager is the populace choice Chris "Jesus" Hargreaves, lauded before and at the time of his appointment as an expected "saviour" of the club and our seemingly inexorable descent in to the eternal fires of non-league football.
I must confess to not becoming a disciple when his appointment was pressed for by, what appeared to be, the masses. My view at that time was he was a really nice bloke, good social skills, a face for camera but lacked EXPERIENCE.
My view of his abilities have not changed since his first game in charge. He speaks well in interview and his passion for the club is unquestionable. But does he have the ability to influence the future?.....I have seen no evidence to suggest that he has.
We benefited from the "dead cat bounce" and won a couple of games, but since that time, for me, he has not evidenced the tactical "nous" required, the charisma to energise and motivate a team of footballers to perform to the best of their abilities, or the ba**s to make tough decisions. I am aware that his raw material is a group of club "legends", journeymen and higher league youngsters with little/no experience of a relegation scrap. But I believe that someone with a natural managerial ability would be able to show some progress after 2 months in the job.
Notwithstanding the quality of the tools he has available he has yet to adequately demonstrate to me that he is a man who can manage in a crisis.
At the time I was, and remain, of the view that the board appointed at haste and we will all repent at leisure, their decision spurred on by public opinion, and if CH really is Jesus he needs to open his book of miracles and pluck one out. Given the poor quality of football (I struggle to describe what I have witnessed in the last few weeks as that) he has engineered since his appointment I am beginning to think that his "legend" status as Jesus is over stated and he is actually a simple man.
Before I bring down a hailstorm of fire and bile on myself, I do not have a definitive answer to the problem, but do feel that a short term appointment of a firefighter with CH as his assistant may have worked better for us, with Jesus rising to the exalted position of manager at a future date having learnt from someone with experience.
I apologise for the length of this epistle, and it has been written as a form of personal catharsis rather than a search for salvation and I do feel a little better now.
I sincerely hope that Jesus can find that miracle and find it NOW.