Footballing Structure - Updates?

I think we have been extremely lucky/skillful in finding two genuinely top tier managers in Rodgers and Ange who have both been good enough and strong enough to grab the club and mould all aspects of it. Their ability and willingness to get involved in a broader remit than most coaches would do has really let us off the hook when it's come to structure. And their knowledge of available players that they could reach out to has papered over some awful signings led by our scouting department in between their reigns.

It's ultimately a blessing but it's also allowed key questions around roles and responsibilities to go unanswered. The board deserve credit for attracting both these guys in the first place, but the obvious risk is that once they leave, without a proper structure and governance in place, they will leave a crater for someone to try and fill. We won't keep getting away with it. I wish we would modernise but as long as we are dominant in Scotland the board have shown again and again that they aren't willing to do so.

 

I would understand us keeping an old-school approach to running the club if we also took an old-school view on the role of the manager. But by and large, we don't.

We don't let managers bring in their own teams, make significant changes to backstage roles, nor it seems play the dominant role in identifying and signing players. We tend to treat them more like a head coach, but you'd expect to see us have a clearer structure in place backstage that being the case.

I think the reality of it, as we've all in here discussed previously, is that in Desmond and friends we have a effectively a new version of the Kennedys. The backroom is Desmond's mates, their children, and old friends of the club. We laugh at the Huns for hiring Mount Staunchmore but we offer plenty jobs for the bhoys. And once they're in, they never seem to leave.

I personally don't think this will ever change while Desmond is in place. Any poor runs of form in whatever regard is responded to with a loosening of the purse strings rather than reforming how the club is run. I think Desmond likes having final say and prefers having people he knows and trust to run the club on his behalf. I don't foresee that changing outside of a similar set of circumstances to those that that forced the Kellys to move on.

 

I don't expect much transparency from the club over how we go about our transfer business but it seems obvious that we * about too much when trying to bring players in. That needs sorting.

 

It's a double-edged sword.

Real change needs a driver for change, usually a terrible season.

If it didn't stick after the Lennon debacle then it's hard to see now. We got lucky with the Ange appointment and his understanding of a cheap, relatively untapped market.

I really fear for us post-Rodgers.