StanleyVictorCollymore
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Hey Guys
Think it's important to set out briefly what we are trying to achieve in the football department as it would be easy to solely focus on a Manager/Head Coach and be dragged into "Messiah" syndrome.
The club favours the Head Coach model. Works with the players, motivates, leads and organises them. Their primary role.
There were several excellent candidates in this regard but the panel, 4 very different men as discussed, were unanimous on one candidates quite stunning in depth analysis of the club, playing staff and what he'd do to change outcomes from day one.
We haven't solely been interviewing Head Coaches however.
Assistant Head Coach
Head of Recruitment
Head of Football Operations
First Team Coach
Scouting
Are also positions that would create a football department which addresses quickly the lack of recruitment success in recent years, a non existent scouting network, giving the Head Coach the required quality team at Boots and Laces on the grass ( we are no longer automatically taking a Head Coaches 35 staff as a gimme. They must fit what Southend United need), a pathway for talented coaches at the club to succeed with us and a Head of Football Operations who knits everything together alongside and into other areas of the club that need support.
It is a complete restructuring of a football club. And as such comes with risk, turbulence and great challenges.
But having spoken to several Chief Executives, Owners, Directors of Football at progressive clubs across the pyramid, every single one has pointed to a significant change of fortunes which is attributed to a change of mentality and structure.
The messiah employed as the benign dictator to oversee every part of the club is dead. To create a sustainable future for Southend United is going to take an incredible amount of hard work but also patience and a change of mindset from you guys, particularly those who are used to the "he goes, he comes in and changes our fortunes". This way of doing things is playing Russian roulette and we simply can't afford to anymore. We need clarity. We need structure. We need to maximise every single part of the club in order to compete, consolidate and then succeed.
So a Head Coach is incredibly important, but his importance will be measured on improving players, improving the working mood at Roots Hall and Boots and Laces, identifying areas of improvement and then receiving a basket laden with first pick players from around the nation from the Head of Recruitment to do that.
I spoke to the players before, at half time and after the game. I told them that I felt the way some of them had been treated was appalling. I told them of my own experiences in wonderful dressing rooms that were vibrant and supportive and of dressing rooms that were broken and left every man for himself. I promised them this would change and that their working environment would improve immediately, they would be listened to, helped and improved as footballers and human beings. A promise.
I believe through a thorough and diligent process that we have found not one, but several parts of a jigsaw that will serve your club incredibly well.
But you have to fulfill your part of the deal. Support the changes we are making. Trust the hard work that's been done in good faith, in your name. Do your own due diligence on the names that come into the club and ask them questions, you'll have the opportunity to very quickly, I promise.
Every single person that is the front runner for the roles above I have looked into their eyes and said "Will you give Southend United 24/7 to turn this around "
All not only said yes but said yes with a pride and enthusiasm that will serve us well if supported from top to bottom.
You guys, I'll be meeting you, talking to you, explaining to you in person until you see every why, wherefore and how as clear as day. That's my promise to all of you. You'll get it, you'll see it, you'll know it.
But please, please throw the last Southend United messiah in the bin and close it. We are now a modern, progressive, adult football club that will work transparently in a system to make sure we take steps forward together, not 2 forward and 5 back.
Be patient, ask questions, support every single Southend United employee. And we have a real chance.
Stan
Think it's important to set out briefly what we are trying to achieve in the football department as it would be easy to solely focus on a Manager/Head Coach and be dragged into "Messiah" syndrome.
The club favours the Head Coach model. Works with the players, motivates, leads and organises them. Their primary role.
There were several excellent candidates in this regard but the panel, 4 very different men as discussed, were unanimous on one candidates quite stunning in depth analysis of the club, playing staff and what he'd do to change outcomes from day one.
We haven't solely been interviewing Head Coaches however.
Assistant Head Coach
Head of Recruitment
Head of Football Operations
First Team Coach
Scouting
Are also positions that would create a football department which addresses quickly the lack of recruitment success in recent years, a non existent scouting network, giving the Head Coach the required quality team at Boots and Laces on the grass ( we are no longer automatically taking a Head Coaches 35 staff as a gimme. They must fit what Southend United need), a pathway for talented coaches at the club to succeed with us and a Head of Football Operations who knits everything together alongside and into other areas of the club that need support.
It is a complete restructuring of a football club. And as such comes with risk, turbulence and great challenges.
But having spoken to several Chief Executives, Owners, Directors of Football at progressive clubs across the pyramid, every single one has pointed to a significant change of fortunes which is attributed to a change of mentality and structure.
The messiah employed as the benign dictator to oversee every part of the club is dead. To create a sustainable future for Southend United is going to take an incredible amount of hard work but also patience and a change of mindset from you guys, particularly those who are used to the "he goes, he comes in and changes our fortunes". This way of doing things is playing Russian roulette and we simply can't afford to anymore. We need clarity. We need structure. We need to maximise every single part of the club in order to compete, consolidate and then succeed.
So a Head Coach is incredibly important, but his importance will be measured on improving players, improving the working mood at Roots Hall and Boots and Laces, identifying areas of improvement and then receiving a basket laden with first pick players from around the nation from the Head of Recruitment to do that.
I spoke to the players before, at half time and after the game. I told them that I felt the way some of them had been treated was appalling. I told them of my own experiences in wonderful dressing rooms that were vibrant and supportive and of dressing rooms that were broken and left every man for himself. I promised them this would change and that their working environment would improve immediately, they would be listened to, helped and improved as footballers and human beings. A promise.
I believe through a thorough and diligent process that we have found not one, but several parts of a jigsaw that will serve your club incredibly well.
But you have to fulfill your part of the deal. Support the changes we are making. Trust the hard work that's been done in good faith, in your name. Do your own due diligence on the names that come into the club and ask them questions, you'll have the opportunity to very quickly, I promise.
Every single person that is the front runner for the roles above I have looked into their eyes and said "Will you give Southend United 24/7 to turn this around "
All not only said yes but said yes with a pride and enthusiasm that will serve us well if supported from top to bottom.
You guys, I'll be meeting you, talking to you, explaining to you in person until you see every why, wherefore and how as clear as day. That's my promise to all of you. You'll get it, you'll see it, you'll know it.
But please, please throw the last Southend United messiah in the bin and close it. We are now a modern, progressive, adult football club that will work transparently in a system to make sure we take steps forward together, not 2 forward and 5 back.
Be patient, ask questions, support every single Southend United employee. And we have a real chance.
Stan
