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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Manx" data-source="post: 641706" data-attributes="member: 50236">I take the main points being growing management within the club and there is no one to replace him and can see why you say that and that it also works or has worked to a point. I would quote Liverpool as a prime example where the &quot;boot room&quot; ethos brought manager after manager and continued success but then................it has been years since they won anything of significance! Biarritz is another that believes that anyone who has played for the club has a right to a job at the club and that an ex player is preferential to anyone else and look what happened to us!Great players such as Servat or Bru do not necessarily make good trainer/managers and I do not think that players should become first team coaches/trainers without a period away from the club to learn their trade where they do not have to deal with men they have been playing with only a few months previously. You can be too close to players and perhaps this is what is wrong with them at the moment?I do take you point that there should be a suitable capable alternative but if he dropped dead he would have to be replaced and there is no point just keeping him on that basis whilst the club disappears down the tube (which could happen)!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Manx, post: 641706, member: 50236"] I take the main points being growing management within the club and there is no one to replace him and can see why you say that and that it also works or has worked to a point. I would quote Liverpool as a prime example where the "boot room" ethos brought manager after manager and continued success but then................it has been years since they won anything of significance! Biarritz is another that believes that anyone who has played for the club has a right to a job at the club and that an ex player is preferential to anyone else and look what happened to us! Great players such as Servat or Bru do not necessarily make good trainer/managers and I do not think that players should become first team coaches/trainers without a period away from the club to learn their trade where they do not have to deal with men they have been playing with only a few months previously. You can be too close to players and perhaps this is what is wrong with them at the moment? I do take you point that there should be a suitable capable alternative but if he dropped dead he would have to be replaced and there is no point just keeping him on that basis whilst the club disappears down the tube (which could happen)! [/QUOTE]

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