Quote Originally Posted by surge View Post
We've turbo-charged our development as a club through the promotion and limited success in the premier league (too limited to stay up) but we're still a relatively young club in that we don't have a wide reaching scouting network, we don't have a pathway from youth football to senior football, we don't have a structure that is fully set-up if something happened and NW had to pack in football tomorrow, we don't have so much that a modern day club looks to have organised in order for long term success. This is our year to work on those points as much as it is to earn another promotion and if we develop off the field and finish mid-table then arguably has been a successful season.
That is not the stated aim.
Nor would you expect a Manager focussed on immediate promotion to be setting the strategy for the future of the club.
If we wanted to do that then we should have appointed a new Manager on a minimum three year contract.
The only way it would work would be to have a number 2 lined up who would continue down the same road.