Quote ="Ancient Provocateur"Interesting. Am I to assume that if/when the Mac is replaced you will be looking to prove that changing the coach would make no difference? If so would this not conflict with your positive at all costs mantra
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I don't think that's a fair representation of my posts. You call it a mantra, I call it a view informed by the wider picture, which does not change week by week, result by result.
If the club changes the coach, then there's not much I can do about it, obvo. And being a supporter of the club, I would hope for the best and certainly wouldn't be seeking to do down whoever the new coach was. I would not expect miracles and I would not be surprised if the disruption caused outweighed the benefits of this hypothetical superior coach we would have brought in. But unless there was a clear course of action I thought the club should take, I wouldn't be lobbying for change for its own sake. Coach X must stay, whoever he (or she) is...