Originally Posted by
Optimistic Nick
Couldn't agree more. Sometimes when managers are sacked and a replacement arrives the following day, people criticise the club for going behind the incumbent's back. I just don't understand that. Surely performance evaluation is ongoing. Where performance is going well, someone should have a shortlist of replacements in the event the current guy is poached. If it's going badly, you'd hope a club would, as a minimum, start talking to people on that list before getting rid of the incumbent.
Our club isn't very well run any more so this sort of basic contingency planning is a pipe dream. But surely other clubs must think this way.