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Speakman gone


Lillywhites said:
The incoming new owners may have promised him things to tempt him.
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Hopefully mate given time he will sort the backend out and does seem to have good links for some bargains.
twiglet said:
I absolutely did not think this at the time, but a) the fact that we got rid of him in the first place and b) that he hasn't exactly been snapped up by another ambitious club makes me think I may have overplayed his role in my own head.

Sounds like the vision and strategy were more flowing down from KLD than flowering from KS. That doesn't change anything he did and said (restructuring, establishing a team identity, investing in data systems, revamping recruitment) but this was him implementing KLD's vision/following his direction (albeit doing it well!) rather than bringing his own blueprint to the club. He'd only really been the head of BCFC academy for 14 years, right?

Of course, that means he was most useful as we were looking to get promoted by buying young players and developing them - to improve the team and sell some on to allow reinvestment. But once we had got to the Premier League that can only be one part of the story (though still an important one), so time to upgrade.

Or a meringue.
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I guess time will tell, see how this summer works out. I do think even though I’ve been critical of him at times he played a huge role with very limited funds at times.
 
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Mackemansj1 said:
I guess time will tell, see how this summer works out. I do think even though I’ve been critical of him at times he played a huge role with very limited funds at times.
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Certainly don't disagree with that! Was more talking about the origins of the vision. And I'm not belittling the thought of 'only' implementing the approach. As RLB said when a journo asked him earlier this season if he was worried that others would follow our model : "Good luck!".
 
Whichever club he goes to, my naive expectation is that he'll do well.

His main trait with us was to buy cheap young players that had high prospects of playing Premier League football, so it doesn't really surprise me he'd be joining a Championship side with play-off ambitions.

Even in League One we were signing players that were good enough for top end Championship/Premier League sides, or had clear potential to be and have done since: Clarke, Stewart, Roberts, Hume, Huggins, Broadhead. I'd be optimistic if I was a PNE fan.
 
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