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Now is the time. Your duty is called. Southend legend!
In my opinion it has to be Adam. This club needs an almighty lift. Not just a breathe of fresh air but bordering on tropical storm level. We desperately need infectious enthusiasm, belief, motivation, leadership, knowledge and organisation. I don't think we need massive changes in tactics as such. Just a way of playing that our defenders can understand and have confidence in so that they, also have confidence in their abilities as a unit to be tight and disciplined. This will, in turn, Provide a platform for those in front to believe in our ability to win games and will boost the confidence of the midfield and strike force. Let players express themselves but in an organised structure. I think Adam is very capable of achieving this and moreNow is the time. Your duty is called. Southend legend!
Adam, like all of us would run through brick walls for this club. Like us he is passionate about Southend United. He is a club legend, someone who as a blue you’ll always remember him fondly. Whilst I’d love to see him as manager here one day, that day is not yet. I totally get the argument that experience isn’t everything and that there are plenty of current managers in the game who have proved just that but for every one of them, there are two or three who have failed to make the jump to being the man in charge. Giving Adam the job right now with this squad of players, we’d only be setting him up to fail o fear and given how badly it ended with Chris Powell, another legend of the club I’d rather avoid that so shortly after Powell’s dismissal. I’d have no problem with Adam coming in to be involved with the next manager (if that’s something he’d want to do) but at the same time I’d still have had Kevin Maher at the club for similar reasons. For me right now, we need someone to come in and who isn’t necessary going to play pretty, possession football but someone who is going to work with what we have, get the basics right and make us hard to beat with a bit of fight about us (something we seem to lack, we are a very soft bunch) and for that I’d love to see Phil Parkinson.
Agree 99.9% just couldn't face Phil Parkinson being put in charge of my football club sorry.
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I get the arguments for and against Barrett and I get the theory behind bringing in a guy with experience and not taking risks. However .. Chris Powell was not a totally inexperienced, untried manager. He ultimately failed but he did pretty well at first. I thought at the time it was a shrewd appointment by RM and I’d personally have given him more time last season as he was cursed with awful luck with injuries/form. You can’t compare him and Barrett, other than the “club legend” angle and I think actually SCP was worth the punt. Also, Sol Campbell keeps being mentioned .. is one season at Macclesfield, a league below, really deemed “experienced” whereas some are totally writing Barrett off? To me, experienced equals out of a job and why? Because they’re not good enough to be employed elsewhere ..
Any particular reason mate?
But White, Wordsworth,Baldwin playing for us is ok?connection probably
But White
But White, Wordsworth,Baldwin playing for us is ok?