The managerial performance curve (a message to the NCFC board)

It seems to me to be an inescapable fact of football that all managers at all clubs go through a performance curve.

Some start poorly (Fergie at Manyoo for example) then build up the their peak, others hit the ground running (Wenger at the Arse) before reaching their peak.

But no matter where they start or how high the peak, EVERY manager (unless he is poached ahead of his time by another club) will ride that peak before things start to go a bit crap on him, and he is eventually sacked (or retires if he's lucky). It's the football law of diminishing returns; it's human nature; it's whatever it is, but it always happens.

Now I've racked my brains, and I can't think of a single manager who has ever turned around a proper decline once he's on that downwards slope. And I'm not talking about a couple of losses on the bounce, I'm talking about a real decline in a team's performance over a season or more. It always takes a change of manager to do that. Always.

So my message to the board is thus - unless you can name a single manager who has achieved such a turnaround, even among the greats of the game, why the f**k do you think Nigel "hoofball" Worthington will be the first to defy gravity???

Infinite patience? Infinite stupidity more like....

Posted By: Greeny, Feb 6, 13:16:30