Quote ="crashmon"The point is Mustard is a league one coach, and is being found out at the higher level. I don't believe DH hired him on the assumption we would be in League one next year (in which case it would be a good signing). But the squad we have would struggle right now vs swinton, rochdale, doncaster, which is very worrying.
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Yes you’ll recall we pretty much unanimously on this forum raised the concern that a coach of a struggling L1 coach might find doing well in the Championship a problem. I assume Tsang was tainted by 2021 (whereas JC wasn’t- go figure 7th in Champ bad, 11th in L1 good). I assume he’s an impressive character and no one else suitable was availabie. It’s really the L1 squad that is the difficult one. It can only have come about because of bad decisions in the planning stage and false assumptions as to squad retention and the ability to recruit from the North. The logic on the latter point has some plausibility but, sadly, has proven to be wrong. As to the former I wonder about the timing of the PT announcement, whether there was fallout from the Ward exit, whether pay was an issue, whether players had become disillusioned - in fairness they were playing in front of 3 men and a dog so maybe they felt the club was on the down. I don’t know personal circumstances or what they are being paid but some of the players don’t look to have moved upwards. We have to hope a few decent loaners become available in May and aren’t all snatched up by rivals. I think that is a possibility then before next season LB management really need to plan properly and in a joined up manner.
