Quote sanjunien="sanjunien"GT will take the flack but the player recruitment comes from higher up so the buck has to stop with CH surely ? CH is well liked (and respected) but maybe he should hold his hands up and take his share of the blame ?
The basic policy needs a re think imo with the money wasted on old men better invested in the youth. Keeping the kids will always be a problem but made easier if the future for them looks brighter. It can't do much for the younger kid's egos to see old men playing at their expense.'"
Carl has always said that the coach has total control of player recruitment. If that's correct, then GT is the man who is responsible. What we don't know is whether he was given a fair budget or not. He may have done a good job with next to no money, or he could have done a bad job if he had as much cash as the Barrow boss.
These are issues we can only make guesses about.
What we do know is that collectively the club haven't got things right. Quite where the blame lies is more difficult to tell.
The consequence is that the longer the problem persists, the harder it becomes to dig yourself out of the hole. Fans will be less likely to buy season tickets next season, or attend matches this season, it'll become harder to sell the game to sponsors and corporate businesses, and the income streams will drop.
Whatever the playing budget is for this year, it's likely to be less for next year unless investment is found from elsewhere.
As a group, Dons fans are used to tough times but I think the one thing we want see above all else is that the club appears to be moving in the right direction. We're not... and we're all rightly concerned.