From listening to and reading the various interviews done yesterday, you can tell Kolo's been around a winning environment his entire playing and coaching career. Very matter-of-fact and knows what he wants to, and feels he is going to achieve with this group of players.
Certainly no umming and ahing or making excuses about how difficult a task staying up with the squad he's inheriting is going to be. Whether that remains the case after the upcoming Christmas slog remains to be seen.
Interesting to hear this from Mike Minay on Radio Manchester last night: "The long-ball, 'hoof-it-up-to-Magennis' didn't gain Leam Richardson many fans at board level."
Confirming what a lot of us suspected, that the way in which we played contributed to Leam's demise as much as the results themselves. Maybe the mysterious Bahrain trip was to try and convince Leam to try a different approach but the Watford, Stoke and Coventry defeats were evidence enough to the board that it clearly wasn't going to happen.
I wouldn't normally want the board to overrule coaching professionals on style of play, or any aspect of the playing team beyond recruitment but it had become so desperate that I couldn't blame them for having words and, if those words weren't heeded, going in a different direction with the business they're paying a lot of money into.
