Can someone tell me which is the craziest idea?
a) Appoint a man who has little more than a years managerial experience and who last managed a club side 10 years ago (and has had NO experience or interest at this level), let him bring in his assistant who retired from playing years ago and has shown no interest in coaching before (and who never even bothered to coach kids or reserves for free) and then let him blow your whole transfer budget on a whole load of ageing midfielders on long term contracts and past-it and overweight or not up to it strikers when its blatently obvious we only have a handful of defenders, and then sit back and watch as his side cant win a game, slide to rock bottom in the league and have the worst goal difference in the country. Or
b) Appoint a man who has been involved in the dressing room at the club for 20 years, who knows the workings of the place inside out, let him appoint 2 assistants - one who has experience of coaching our reserves and kids, the other who although having only recently having stopped playing his whole career in the lower leagues, has already shown an interest in coaching and gaining his badges and offering his services to coach kids, let the new manager try and get rid of some of the deadwood left by the previous man, use a FRACTION of the money saved to bring in players in THE POSITIONS WE NEED THEM, stabilise the club, and give us a HOPE of staying up.
OK so from what I have heard we were very poor against Oldham. But unless Johnson wins the lottery 20 weeks in a row and can then afford to bring Alex Ferguson in with Wenger as his number 2 what do people want? We knew from the moment Barnes was appointed that the season would be a write-off. But if Les can salvage ANYTHING from the season - if we scrape safety by one goal on the last day of the season - then we should all be eternally grateful for him.
Look at Stockport. Without Les that is where we would be right now. Adrift and without hope.
Parry out? Dont be so stupid.