Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach
My main gripe is too many people don't seem to be prepared to give him this month let alone this season as manager.
Let him be judged on his results not on his lack of experience.
But that inherently is the challenge with appointing someone with no experience.
In a very simplified view, you appoint a manager based on whatever criteria (pick your flavor of the month), then a few results go south (as will always happen).
- With the amount of money at stake, the board Levy have to look at bad runs and say "can this guy turn it around"?
- With an experienced manager, they/he have a record that you can look at and say, done it before, we can feel justified by giving him some space/time to make it happen
- With absolutely no experience (and no, youth/academy does not count), how are you managing risk? do you get involved (interfere)? how many games is enough, etc.
- As well (especially in England), with no "brand" how much is the media going to ride those bad results, leading to fan discontent, bad game atmosphere, list goes on ..
That as I have mentioned before is my concern re the TS appointment, it's not is he good enough (which is a significant unanswered question), it is the fact that he is highly unlikely ever to be given a fair run, so why do it in the first place?