There are many facets to a football manager's job and, at our level, we are always likely to have bosses who aren't great at some of them - if we ever had one who was good at the lot of them, he would soon be on his way to a higher profile club.

To me, Russell Slade is like most City managers, he has his good points and he has his bad ones - his attitude towards youth development being one of them.

It's all very well talking about recruiting procedures being improved, but if they come in at a club that has gained a reputation for not producing first team footballers from their Academy, their chances of convincing a better quality of player to sign for them have to be effected. i accept it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation, but things like the picking of Danny Gabbidon (who'd already had a trial with another club because he wasn't going to be given another contract here) as a substitute for the first team in front of someone like Tom James or Curtis Watkins at the back end of last season sent out totally the wrong type of signal.