January Farewells

[Hadrian]

Is devitt not out of contract soon?

Correct, he's not.

Quick summary as far as I could tell at the time. (Please PM me if you can evidence any errors.)

[blue nige]

No offence but Mark Hetherington isn’t really a director of football is he? We need someone experienced in that role to sort this shower out if that’s the route we are going down

So he was OK when Evatt was here but not now ?

Why we've a budget you see what players we need then you fit them in in to suit can't believe it's as complicated as people make out !

[russell_anderson]

To be honest, zanzala has been the ultimate flop for whatever reason. As far as the rest are concerned iMO they are as good as I expected them to be…. which is not very.

As a group they’d be a reasonable bunch were it not some key weaknesses. That’s why Zanzala is such a huge mistake. He’s clearly not a MC type of player. He belongs somewhere else……anywhere else.

Agreed, which is why I was surprised that you thought my forecast many moons ago of us being in the bottom 6 was completely unrealistic. I'd be overjoyed now with a position 6th from bottom!

[russell_anderson]

No offence but Mark Hetherington isn’t really a director of football is he? We need someone experienced in that role to sort this shower out if that’s the route we are going down

So he was OK when Evatt was here but not now ?

Why we've a budget you see what players we need then you fit them in in to suit can't believe it's as complicated as people make out !

I very much suspect that Evatt recuited most of the players he brought in. Certainly when he first moved to Bolton, he recruited players which he must have seen when managing Barrow i.e. Tom White, Santos from Barnet, Gordon from Dagenham and subsequently Joel Dixon. I expect most of the managers who followed also had a large say in who was recruited although as we changed managers so often most would be stuck with players they didn't sign.

[Jonty]

Maybe a Director of Football is needed- sort out training locations, work with scouts and manager to identify targets, link between board and manager. You know - all that stuff

Is that not what Mark Hetherington does?

I don’t know. I know he is helping out but not sure if the role is official / on the payroll or temporary, or if he reports into the CEO. I don't know the structure of the club.

[Louis29]

Is that not what Mark Hetherington does?

I don’t know. I know he is helping out but not sure if the role is official / on the payroll or temporary, or if he reports into the CEO. I don't know the structure of the club.

He deffo will not be reporting to the CEO……trust me

[McMark]

Mark Hethrington was brought back at the beginning of August by Paul Hornby Ad Director of Football ; programme notes.

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[Main Stand SeasonTct]

I don’t know. I know he is helping out but not sure if the role is official / on the payroll or temporary, or if he reports into the CEO. I don't know the structure of the club.

He deffo will not be reporting to the CEO……trust me

Like I posted earlier According to an interview with Paul Hornby around mid September Mark Hetherington agreed to come back and head up a project to look at improving the clubs training infrastructure for the medium and long term future.
As for reporting to the CEO not a chance.

[Suffolk Blue]

You have a memory like an elephant Russ! And your prediction is looking pretty accurate so far.

My mistake was to ignore my own scepticism and forget that with BAFC the difference between what turns out to be acceptable and what ends up looking very poor is wafer thin.

I still think the basic elements are better than this time last year both on and off the field but our status as an EFL club still looks uncomfortably fragile.

[Jonty]

Well that’s good. As Mark H says in those programme notes- not one for titles and the role is broad and varies club to club. However feels like a position that we needed to have to allow MC to focus fully on managing the side

[ruins]

No offence but Mark Hetherington isn’t really a director of football is he? We need someone experienced in that role to sort this shower out if that’s the route we are going down

So he was OK when Evatt was here but not now ?

Why we've a budget you see what players we need then you fit them in in to suit can't believe it's as complicated as people make out !

Wtf. This is a man who knows the club and town, local community and coached all his life. Nige I'm in agreement. Tictactoe I really don't see sense in your post. Just my opinion. Mark did and continues to work hard for the club.

[HenneysKnee]

Chuck Josh Kay on the list that can go as well

[blue nige]

So he was OK when Evatt was here but not now ?

Why we've a budget you see what players we need then you fit them in in to suit can't believe it's as complicated as people make out !

Wtf. This is a man who knows the club and town, local community and coached all his life. Nige I'm in agreement. Tictactoe I really don't see sense in your post. Just my opinion. Mark did and continues to work hard for the club.

I just think at league 2 national league, unless you have Wrexham/Stockport budgets you're limited financially so Mark would only need to liaise with Manager to discuss budgets and the positions/ players that are needed ,then work from there, I don't believe that he wouldn't have knowledge of how it all works !
I don't think as a club we need to spend money on someone when we could use that on a player.
My decision is based on finances that club's at our level have to be careful with and I'm sure our board will surely recruit better having their fingers burnt on numerous occasions!

[ruins]

Can't disagree mate.
Turning this into a positive, have a great new year Nige, catch up soon.

[blue nige]

same to you we'll all disagree sometimes but we all have one thing in common we all want the club to do well and be a success! which under the owners I'm sure we will !