00:00Now, you know, you can kind of maybe give them a bit of grace.
00:04They missed out on their first target.
00:05They went for Mowbray.
00:07You know, someone who everyone wanted to work, experienced the work at a level.
00:10It just hasn't worked for one way or another.
00:12You know, I'll keep putting in the players have got their responsibility for a lot of it as well.
00:17Now, though, for me, there is a lot of pressure on this appointment now.
00:24And we talked about this off podcast.
00:25They have to strike the right note with this appointment.
00:31It has to kind of work because if it doesn't, and, you know, October, November time,
00:37I'll be in a languishing, you know, after another good summer of recruitment.
00:41Yeah, where do you go?
00:43Where do you go from there, you know?
00:45And what do you do?
00:46Do you pull the plug straight away then?
00:48You know, do you risk then going down there?
00:50You know, it would take a long, long time and a lot of sackings to get to that point.
00:54But are you in the realms of a Watford there where you're changing the manager all the time?
00:58You know, I don't quite think that will happen.
01:00I'm pretty confident they will go and get this right.
01:04But there is a lot of pressure.
01:05Make no bones about it.
01:07They've made a big call here.
01:09And they've got to get this next one right.
01:12Yeah, Watford's an extreme example, isn't it?
01:14Because they're the craziest club around.
01:16And actually, I've had Cleverley in charge for a year now, which must feel absolutely alien to them.
01:21But, yeah, you're right.
01:23The point is, you know, a manager comes in the summer.
01:25And if it's not gone well by October and November and you're down in lower mid-table, bottom half,
01:32clubs tend to act, don't they, really?
01:35Look, unless they're going to make this a big project and say, you know,
01:38this is the man for three years, blah, blah, blah.
01:41But, obviously, you know, like with Mowbray, fans will have a voice and vote.
01:46And if they don't like what they're seeing, if results are dictating, then, yeah.
01:51Yeah, you're right.
01:52They're a huge call to make with Tony.
01:54And, look, some kudos for doing it with two games left.
01:59Initially, I think the both of us, but I think others were probably a bit stunned with the timing.
02:05Maybe just after the game, just after the presser.
02:07You don't really get that often, do you?
02:10But actually doing it with two games left, having that.
02:15This two weeks now needs to be used, really, to sift through most of it, really.
02:22You know, there's no, like, oh, we'll just sort of do the basics and then start after May the 3rd
02:31when it comes to, like, sifting through the ones we want.
02:34You know, they need to use this time.
02:35And when you're looking at the, certainly by the middle of May, you'd hope they need
02:41to be there, really, to give it as much time and as much opportunity to tell the new man
02:46X is being released, Y is being released, Z is being released.
02:50You know, A, B and C have got one year left on the deal.
02:52We want them out, you know, off the wage bill or whatever.
02:57Yeah, that's the time.
02:58And it's, you know, it's a big, we said it just there, didn't we, what Andrew Nesta said,
03:02the third window of the squad's rebuild.
03:06And I understand why he was, you know, why he's saying that.
03:08And there's a lot to do.
03:10Mowbray said, didn't he, yesterday in his final press conference before he left.
03:16And bear in mind, Mowbray doesn't do the recruitment.
03:18Bill could.
03:19He said, he sees five or six players needed.
03:22And that's probably not, that might not sound like a busy summer, but I think he means players
03:27that can play there, you know.
03:30Or starters, they need, yeah, starters, they need players, arguably more players, yeah.
03:33And that's not just, yeah, yeah.
03:36And that's not just on quality, Johnny, that's on all the things lacking in terms of minerals,
03:40really.
03:41But how much can you do in a window?
03:43Obviously, you're not going to get all of those five, six signings right.
03:46You know, you might get a Frobota.
03:49You know, or whatever.
03:52I realise each case is a different example, but hopefully they can find more of an Isaac
03:59Price or maybe more of a Stiles or, you know, Banny, who knows on that one.
04:05But there are...
04:06Like you say, they've got a big summer on all fronts because if they don't kind of get
04:09the recruitment right and they don't get this appointment right, then Bill could have
04:14got an awful lot of credibility in the bank because of what's happened, the way they've
04:18taken over the club, the way they've kind of saved the club from what's going on in the
04:22lie, you know, the money that they've put in, the debt that they've paid off in terms
04:26of the loans and stuff, etc.
04:28And the investment that's gone in, there's a lot of credibility there.
04:31But that, like I said, if this decision isn't right, that is slowly or slightly chipped away
04:38at.
04:39We don't want to be in that position then.
04:40Yeah, it's separate, isn't it?
04:42Obviously, you know, everybody appreciates that they, you know, they were the white knights,
04:46you know, they saved the club.
04:47Like, that's the bottom line and the most important thing.
04:51But then a separate section to that is the football decisions, isn't it?
04:55The football structure and the leadership of it.
04:57And obviously, they want to be making right decisions because if not, just won't be where
05:03they want to be in the table.
05:04They'll be paying off managers, you know, putting players on contract who are no good.
05:08So, yeah, a lot of rides on it.
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