Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset
Director⭐⭐
Monday 17th April 2017
I were over the training ground the other morning, when Ron rings me and asks me to attend some seminar thing. I asks him what it's aboot and he says it's aboot CORR. I says I cannae speak for 20 minutes about Barry Corr. He disnae even play for the club and anyway, he's a tattooed loon with the heart of a pea. Ron then tells me they're paying for me time, so I says where is it and when? I'll be straight there! .. I'll even wear me tracksuit, to get in the mood.
Anyway, I asks Coghs to come along, as I still dannae have me car and he agrees. We turns up and the room's all full of sharp suited Apprentice wannabes with evil stares. I says, these people don't seem the sort to wanna know aboot some injury prone old has-been. Coghs goes off and asks someone who lets us know it's CORE, not CORR. I says I dannae know what yer talking aboot, but Coghs says he'll sit at the back with some prompt boards.
I gets called up on stage and this fella is banging on aboot entrepreneurial this and focus that, so I thought I'll just have to blag it.
So, apparently, C stands for Commitment. I says it's all aboot being committed to what you believe in. Some wag asks a question aboot the Bolton job last season, but I brush him off by pretending I dannae know what he's talking aboot and anyway, they said they'll edit that bit oot.
Then it's O for Organization. I tells the room that I have a great team of dedicated and skilled backroom staff and Brian Horton, so we have that covered. I also mention aboot the old Boots & Laces training ground and our new stadium. I tells them that were the only reason I came to the club. That and I needed a job, but mainly the stadium thing. I tells them Ron has already started work on the new ground and has built a fence. I thought it was to stop Noodle's shots going into Sutton Road, but apparently I were wrong.
R is for Respect, but I didnae have much to go on with that, so I talked aboot attitude and how we changed our mentality into thinking 2 points a game was better than 1 point and how I needed to let Adam Bassett down gently as, quite frankly, he was past his sell-by date and was talking aboot relegation and fear of losing all the time. I cannae have that in me dressing room. We needed a change of culture. I also mentioned I had to let one of the Under 21's go. The lad had all the attributes of CORE, but quite frankly he were s**te, so I had nae choice! .. Luckily there were no-one in the room from Employment Rights, so I got away with that one!
Final bit was E for Enjoyment. I says it's all aboot getting what you can oot of yer career and never doing anything for the money. It's all aboot self-esteem and doing what's right.
I leaves the stage to collect me money, when they tells me that it was for free. I says I'm not standing for that and told them me lawyers would be in touch. What is it with these people. Do they think I'm up there for the love of it?!
Well, today is another big day. I'm hoping for a bumper crowd, though I were disappointed to hear that the whole of the North Bank is going to be empty, apart from 57 MK Dons fans.
Organization, eh. Yer can't beat it!
Top stuff. I am now inspired for the afternoon that awaits us