[madsteve]

I've (not) played under a coach who I didn't see eye to eye with and it's not nice. I'm not arguing with the committee theory but the bloke who picks the team must want to have the player or he won't get played or he will be played out of position so the coach can say "I told you so" to the committee.

The way it works at Barcelona & Ajax is that if the HC doesn't use correctly the players selected by the Committee then the HC is sacked.

The primary job of the HC is to get the best from the players selected & if he cannot do that then he is disposable.

Which is all good and well as long as the committee is sufficiently skilled and knowledgeable itself to make these sort of decisions.  I think in our current situation the HC needs to be a loud and important voice within the committee itself, but I would be all for them including other football experienced members on the committee as time goes by either in a full time or advisory capacity.

I would add Howard Wilkinson to chair this group plus a former player steeped in SWFC who is good on player identification. Peter Shirtliff would be my choice but Chris Waddle, Trevor Francis, Lawrie Madden or Nigel Worthington could also do the job.

My view is the HC offers a 20% voice out of five. his primary job is coaching & he accepts the overall view of the Board.

When Barcelona introduced this system they were an average team in Spain with no European pedigree. The second element that helped make them great was the introduction of the 433 playing system across all their teams from juniors upwards. This meant that the HC didn't have to think about tactics other than just adapting to suit the opposition. Also it was much easier for juniors stepping up to the first team because they knew the playing system.

One of the main advantages of this system is that when the HC is changed, you don't get a mass exodus of his players & the new HC wanting to bring his players in at great cost.

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pity its not though   geln **** roeder   adam wtf   we arnt barca yet   load off wank if you ask me   new manager that can bring in the passion at home games like megson did last   ex wednesday he has to be like pearson so he understands it   win promotion then play the chess game in the premier   this league only dictates you win all your home games and pick up points of confidence on the road   it has not changed from wilkinson or bigron who blasted the **** out of it !!!! if we play silly bastards then we might be here for some time yet   its simple scre the **** out off the other get a hirst or a varadi and score **** goals at home for fun 

It took Barcelona quite a few years for the full advantages of this system to kick in. Fortunately, they had faith in the system & the team introducing it.

This division has changed a lot over the last ten years but your point still holds true that to get promotion, you need to get at least 16 home wins and average two goals per game. The big difference is that you don't need a 20 goal per season goalscorer (Hull & Cardiff got promoted recently without any player scoring ten goals) because more goals are being scored now by midfielders & defenders.

We need more goals from all areas and certainly a striker that gets 20 goals makes life a lot easier.

I hate managers that see a draw as a good result. Sorry, a draw is two points lost. If you want to win the league, you have to try to win every match. Usually the team that wins the most matches goes up. Watford have won 26 matches, Bournemouth have won 25 matches while we have won only 14 matches.

This season, the automatic promotion figure is just 88 points but in other seasons 93 points are required so we have to aim high next season.