I hope the lessons learnt include the fact that the manager/coach tends to be one of the if not the most important criteria when joining a club. Morgs, Mumba, Azaz loved the football Schuey played as it brought out the best in them and they wanted to play his style of football. I imagine it’s the same for managers like McKenna, Robins etc. Football is still a small industry and the players will all talk to each other and know which managers are the ones they want to play for and those to avoid (imagine how hard recruitment would be if we still had Foster as many players would share their bad experiences I’m sure)
Secondly the big learning has to be that the manager/coach needs to create a brilliant team spirit and culture. A lot of that is in place throughout the club but still our location means this is incredibly important. The Hull game showed how far that can take you. Also a sign of that is ex players (Butch, Macca, Mayor) coming to watch yesterday.
The role of Dewsnip is an interesting one. Clearly he cares about the team and has helped us move forward as a club. However a good coach/ manager may not gel with him as I can imagine he divides opinion.
I hope we actually use some external head hunter/ outside contacts to draw up a shortlist than rely on in house resource. Ipswich seemed like they targeted McKenna, Pompey Mousinho etc. That feels like the profile we can still target if done correctly.
