Post by JamesB on Oct 29, 2012 22:04:37 GMT
Over the course of the day I've gradually written this reappraisal of Leroy's reign: welshgull.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/leroy-rosenior-the-manager/
The problem I feel is that while he is well-regarded, there are a couple of niggling criticisms of his management skills, which I think is unfair. Only now is the scale of the job he did actually become apparent - it was quite an incredible feat to first get us promoted and then secondly nearly keep us up, considering the budgetary restrictions he had in place
Yes, he made some bad signings, but given that he had so little to work with, and that it slowly became necessary to sign players via trial and error because of that, it's inevitable that that was going to happen. What should instead be said is that he unearthed a few gems - Kuffour, Akinfenwa and Connell have all gone on to become established lower league strikers, Sako went on to play for St Pauli and Arminia Bielefeld in Germany, and some of the loanees we had in have gone on to greater things or are at least still plying their trade in the FL, like Paul Robinson, Mike Williamson (well, we knew him anyway), Craig Woodman, Adam Lockwood and his son
Quite why he hasn't had more jobs in recent years I don't know - the punditry must be paying well, and if it keeps Claridge off the Football League Show I'm fully in support of this
The problem I feel is that while he is well-regarded, there are a couple of niggling criticisms of his management skills, which I think is unfair. Only now is the scale of the job he did actually become apparent - it was quite an incredible feat to first get us promoted and then secondly nearly keep us up, considering the budgetary restrictions he had in place
Yes, he made some bad signings, but given that he had so little to work with, and that it slowly became necessary to sign players via trial and error because of that, it's inevitable that that was going to happen. What should instead be said is that he unearthed a few gems - Kuffour, Akinfenwa and Connell have all gone on to become established lower league strikers, Sako went on to play for St Pauli and Arminia Bielefeld in Germany, and some of the loanees we had in have gone on to greater things or are at least still plying their trade in the FL, like Paul Robinson, Mike Williamson (well, we knew him anyway), Craig Woodman, Adam Lockwood and his son
Quite why he hasn't had more jobs in recent years I don't know - the punditry must be paying well, and if it keeps Claridge off the Football League Show I'm fully in support of this
