Quote: af ""Hood et al" doesn't add up to much ...
...For many of the young players he has brought through, the club's unique selling point - Steve McNamara - would have gone and so they would be open to offers from elsewhere. However, better to have one inpermanent USP than none at all.
If SM leaves or gets hit by a bus then the club will have to cope as best they can. But let's hope that he isn't, and let's not shove him off the pavement ourselves, metaphorically or physically.'"
So like I said, the club has bigger, more fundamental problems than Steve McNamara not consistantly delivering trophies.
And if its true that the club has started laying people off, why do people assume we can afford to pay up McNamaras contract (and some other coaching staff with him presumeably) [iand [/ipay a new team of coaches possibly at a higher rate, as well during the same period, up to the end of this season when McNamaras contract expires anyway. On that note I am assuming the coaching staff budget is not within the salary cap budget??
And before anyone says we have the money as we were going to buy Bird, yes, obviously we could find the money from the playing staff if we needed it, point is, signing Bird [iwould [/iimprove the playing squad and so is money well spent, paying for two coaches at once which only [imight [/ibring an improvement and might as easily cause more disruption and a worsening of the situation is not in my opionion money well spent at this time....but my view on that is open to change as the season progresses.
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