seagulls99
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- Feb 10, 2012
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Have a read of how Dan Ashworth describes his role as Technical Director:
“It’s a model that is very common in Europe,” Ashworth says. “I don’t like hierarchical structures, so I always draw it that the TD [technical director] sits in the middle of the wheel and on the outside of the wheel is the head of each department.
“History will tell you the one you are most likely to lose is the head coach or manager. The average lifespan is something like 14 months.
”So if, every 14 months, you are fundamentally changing what the club believes in and how you are developing your young players, how you are working with the players that are out on loan, you’ve got no consistency and no chance of joining everything up from a long-term point of view.
“Historically, certainly in this country, it was more that the manager would choose the head coach, youth-team coach, reserves coach, head of recruitment, physio.
“Consequently, you’ve got wholesale changes when that doesn’t work — or does work, and they go on to bigger and better things — rather than just tweaking and changing one or two heads of department, which is what you would do in any other business.”
It's pretty evident to me that if Potter was to go, not much would change? The philosophy is driven by Ashworth so imo, if anyone is to be sacked by TB, he should be the one to go.
“It’s a model that is very common in Europe,” Ashworth says. “I don’t like hierarchical structures, so I always draw it that the TD [technical director] sits in the middle of the wheel and on the outside of the wheel is the head of each department.
“History will tell you the one you are most likely to lose is the head coach or manager. The average lifespan is something like 14 months.
”So if, every 14 months, you are fundamentally changing what the club believes in and how you are developing your young players, how you are working with the players that are out on loan, you’ve got no consistency and no chance of joining everything up from a long-term point of view.
“Historically, certainly in this country, it was more that the manager would choose the head coach, youth-team coach, reserves coach, head of recruitment, physio.
“Consequently, you’ve got wholesale changes when that doesn’t work — or does work, and they go on to bigger and better things — rather than just tweaking and changing one or two heads of department, which is what you would do in any other business.”
It's pretty evident to me that if Potter was to go, not much would change? The philosophy is driven by Ashworth so imo, if anyone is to be sacked by TB, he should be the one to go.
