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John McDermott - new Technical Director

This is not new news....this happened before xmas.

Effectively the 18-21 year old players are now under his management; previously the hierachy was a bit fractured with the growing prominence of the U21 set up which effectively saw Ramsay and Sherwood (and Ferdinand) higher up the decision making chain than McDermott and the Academy (which oversaw age groups U7 - U18). Since Ramsay and co left for QPR there was a bit of a void because Ugo Ehoigu (the U21 coach) was just a coach and not a director or really a decision maker.

What this now does is formally recognises JMc as the overseer of all player development from U7 up to the first team. In my opinion this is great news; too many clubs (and people in football) fail to recognise the importance of development in 18-21 YO players; many decision makers in football have dismissed a player at 18 for not being technically or physically good enough.

Whilst some players are ready to establish themselves as teenagers and sustain that for a career, the 'class of 92; for example weren't put into the 1st team until their early 20's - even Harry Kane was completelu unrecognisable as an 18 yo compared to the player he is now.

This all means that there is a clear allignment between the academy and the first team.
 
GPRD81 said:
This is not new news....this happened before xmas.

Effectively the 18-21 year old players are now under his management; previously the hierachy was a bit fractured with the growing prominence of the U21 set up which effectively saw Ramsay and Sherwood (and Ferdinand) higher up the decision making chain than McDermott and the Academy (which oversaw age groups U7 - U18). Since Ramsay and co left for QPR there was a bit of a void because Ugo Ehoigu (the U21 coach) was just a coach and not a director or really a decision maker.

What this now does is formally recognises JMc as the overseer of all player development from U7 up to the first team. In my opinion this is great news; too many clubs (and people in football) fail to recognise the importance of development in 18-21 YO players; many decision makers in football have dismissed a player at 18 for not being technically or physically good enough.

Whilst some players are ready to establish themselves as teenagers and sustain that for a career, the 'class of 92; for example weren't put into the 1st team until their early 20's - even Harry Kane was completelu unrecognisable as an 18 yo compared to the player he is now.

This all means that there is a clear allignment between the academy and the first team.
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Isn't that Dean Rastrick's new role though?

With McDermott's getting full oversight of all footballing matters (academy, scouting, medical, coaching and secretariat)?
 
I think formally 'the academy' is U7 to U18 so Dean Rastick's role is to manage these age groups whereas John McDermott has responsibility for that plus the 18 - 21 development phase.

I believe he also has some input to transfer discussions too e.g. he will be asked to discuss possible options from within the academy instead of buying a player. If you take the Dembele stories as a given we would only have pressed ahead with the deal once McDermott has stated that we don't have a like for like player about to come through.
 
it makes sense having one person overseee the internal and external supply lines to the first team. other than poch the other key players would be Paul Mitchell - who I believe will provide the hard evidence - and Levy controlling the purse strings.
 
metalgear said:
it makes sense having one person overseee the internal and external supply lines to the first team. other than poch the other key players would be Paul Mitchell - who I believe will provide the hard evidence - and Levy controlling the purse strings.
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Rebecca Caplehorn is the other person in the mix. She leads on the financial and contractual side of things now.
 
milo said:
Rebecca Caplehorn is the other person in the mix. She leads on the financial and contractual side of things now.
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Rob Mackenzie (Head of Player Identification) and Stuart Metcalf (Head of Performance Analysis) are supposedly peers of Paul Mitchell's (Head of Recruitment) too, just lower profile because they didn't come from Southampton
 
Gutter Boy said:
McDermott is succeeding Baldini

Rastrick taking over from McDermott

Freund is doing Timmeh's old job
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It looks like it is Sherwood's and not Baldini's old job

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http://www.thstofficial.com/thst-news/thstthfc-board-to-board-meeting-10-february-2016
 
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