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Apologies to anyone who is offended by 'reopening' discussion on the Cowleys and Huddersfield Town, but as they're live on TV later, I thought it inevitable that some discussion would follow before, during and after the game.
A few days ago, I may well have taken the 5-year old child with their hands over their eyes approach, but as I think others on here will feel, I'm genuinely interested to see how the Cowleys fare on their continuing 'journey' up English football.
Before the original Huddersfield thread got closed, I was planning to add a comment about the challenge that lies ahead for the brothers. One thing that was massively in their favour at Lincoln was the fact they came in with a completely blank sheet. They were able to straightaway put together the backroom staff they wanted, bring in their own players, and of course play a central role in how the club was restructured and developed off the pitch as well. At Huddersfield that is very much not the case, and they will need all the skills they developed as teachers (a job they also did incredibly well) to build relationships quickly (often with people they may not like), and in terms of their players and support staff, people they have had no influence whatsoever in bringing to the club. I guess this is what I find most interesting - can they transfer their skills to a 'bigger' club where they have to work in existing structures and build something that takes them to the next level (which I guess for them would be the West Ham job when Pelligrini leaves in a season or two)?
What cannot be argued is that the Championship is an extremely unforgiving league - it is not unusual for clubs relegated from the Premiership to struggle - Sunderland being the most obvious recent example. Therefore, parachute money may become largely irrelevant if they find themselves marooned in the relegation zone when the transfer window opens again. And whilst I know they largely put out a reserve team in the League Cup fixture, I didn't see anything from their squad which suggests they'd cope with the rough and tumble of the Championship - they certainly didn't cope with our much-changed team - we were very worthy winners on the night. The Cowleys need results quickly - 1 point from 6 games makes that obvious - and with no opportunity to bring in players for 3.5 months, they're going to need to hit the ground running.
For the record, I still can't decide if I want them to fail miserably and get relegated, or start pounding up the league table and prove to everyone just how lucky we were to have England's best young managers 'make their name' at our club. Think for today though I'll be supporting SWFC!
Up the Imps and apologies again to anyone who didn't want to see Huddersfield mentioned again (I feel the same way about new manager betting odds, so I do know where you're coming from!).
A few days ago, I may well have taken the 5-year old child with their hands over their eyes approach, but as I think others on here will feel, I'm genuinely interested to see how the Cowleys fare on their continuing 'journey' up English football.
Before the original Huddersfield thread got closed, I was planning to add a comment about the challenge that lies ahead for the brothers. One thing that was massively in their favour at Lincoln was the fact they came in with a completely blank sheet. They were able to straightaway put together the backroom staff they wanted, bring in their own players, and of course play a central role in how the club was restructured and developed off the pitch as well. At Huddersfield that is very much not the case, and they will need all the skills they developed as teachers (a job they also did incredibly well) to build relationships quickly (often with people they may not like), and in terms of their players and support staff, people they have had no influence whatsoever in bringing to the club. I guess this is what I find most interesting - can they transfer their skills to a 'bigger' club where they have to work in existing structures and build something that takes them to the next level (which I guess for them would be the West Ham job when Pelligrini leaves in a season or two)?
What cannot be argued is that the Championship is an extremely unforgiving league - it is not unusual for clubs relegated from the Premiership to struggle - Sunderland being the most obvious recent example. Therefore, parachute money may become largely irrelevant if they find themselves marooned in the relegation zone when the transfer window opens again. And whilst I know they largely put out a reserve team in the League Cup fixture, I didn't see anything from their squad which suggests they'd cope with the rough and tumble of the Championship - they certainly didn't cope with our much-changed team - we were very worthy winners on the night. The Cowleys need results quickly - 1 point from 6 games makes that obvious - and with no opportunity to bring in players for 3.5 months, they're going to need to hit the ground running.
For the record, I still can't decide if I want them to fail miserably and get relegated, or start pounding up the league table and prove to everyone just how lucky we were to have England's best young managers 'make their name' at our club. Think for today though I'll be supporting SWFC!
Up the Imps and apologies again to anyone who didn't want to see Huddersfield mentioned again (I feel the same way about new manager betting odds, so I do know where you're coming from!).
