jambo
Well-known Exeweb poster
A few years back, Tisdale used the prospect of going to elsewhere as a lever to ratchet up the fear amongst the risk-averse in the Club Board, & secured the "surreal" outcome of the rolling contract. Just like the repetition at Wembley on Monday of last year's debacle against Blackpool, it looks like we're seeing a similar repetition of the attempt to generate fear by his dalliance with MK Dons. The post-match interviews, the whole "careful what you wish for" schtick is all pretty calculated.
I genuinely think that it would be in the best interests of the Club to set a short time limit for Tisdale to make his decision, after which, the new contract offer should be rescinded. It's time Tisdale recognises that he is an employee of the Club. (I actually think, personally, that the recent public badmouthing of the Club & of the Trust model is provocation enough to rescind the contract offer immediately, but that's another matter.)
Of course, change might not be successful, or not immediately so. Similarly, it might well be successful. But the key issues are:
1. What do we want for our Club? - what is our vision of (sustainable) success? (To his credit, Tisdale has himself promoted the nerd for this discussion - the worry here is that the Club has gone into "ticking over" mode.)
2. Should we really believe that our single best hope of achieving this outcome is the current manager? Has he done the best that he could with the resources at his disposal? Does he have a convincing plan for building on what has been achieved in recent years?
3. Do we really believe that no other manager could have achieved the sorts of outcomes that Tisdale has achieved over, let's say, the last five years? - the reason for thinking in this way is in part to consider whether he has reached the limits of what he is capable of achieving with the Club (this is, to be clear, the exact corollary of Tisdale's question about whether the Club has reached the limits of what it can achieve under the Supporters Trust model of ownership - if one question should be posed, then so should the other).
4. Is now the right moment for the Club to be thinking about change? - is it better to seek change on the basis of stability or failure?
I genuinely think that it would be in the best interests of the Club to set a short time limit for Tisdale to make his decision, after which, the new contract offer should be rescinded. It's time Tisdale recognises that he is an employee of the Club. (I actually think, personally, that the recent public badmouthing of the Club & of the Trust model is provocation enough to rescind the contract offer immediately, but that's another matter.)
Of course, change might not be successful, or not immediately so. Similarly, it might well be successful. But the key issues are:
1. What do we want for our Club? - what is our vision of (sustainable) success? (To his credit, Tisdale has himself promoted the nerd for this discussion - the worry here is that the Club has gone into "ticking over" mode.)
2. Should we really believe that our single best hope of achieving this outcome is the current manager? Has he done the best that he could with the resources at his disposal? Does he have a convincing plan for building on what has been achieved in recent years?
3. Do we really believe that no other manager could have achieved the sorts of outcomes that Tisdale has achieved over, let's say, the last five years? - the reason for thinking in this way is in part to consider whether he has reached the limits of what he is capable of achieving with the Club (this is, to be clear, the exact corollary of Tisdale's question about whether the Club has reached the limits of what it can achieve under the Supporters Trust model of ownership - if one question should be posed, then so should the other).
4. Is now the right moment for the Club to be thinking about change? - is it better to seek change on the basis of stability or failure?
