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If you are basing your assessment on a manager's first 15 months in charge, then Dickov's done significantly better than O'Driscoll, all things considered.
Yep. O'Driscoll had a vision in those first 15 months. It involved his cast-iron certainty that Mark Wilson was better than Paul Green and that Lewis Guy was better than Paul Heffernan. He inherited a squad better than the current one, spent lavishly on it and for 15 months performed as badly, serving up some of the most turgid and sterile football I have ever seen along the way. Like I've said several times this week, I would have cracked one off at Clock Corner if he'd been sacked in Autumn 2007. Fat lot I knew. In fact I knew about as much as those passing judgement on Dickov now.
How can you slate joe Kinnear managerial ability BSTwhen he went on to manage successfully in the premier league with several clubs ?He has a managerial cv Dickov will never have.
pibThere's plenty of 20/20 vision and selective picking of circumstances going on there. O'Driscoll may have come in 6 weeks into a season, but he also came into a club that had steadily and sensibly grown for 5 years, with an excellent squad at his disposal, and he was immediately given funds to improve that squad significantly. Dickov came into a club that was in turmoil, with uncertain ownership and budget right up to the start if his first season. He had to cobble a squad together from nothing in a hurry. And then, damn me, he had to go through a slow-motion replay the following year. I have to say though, I'm impressed with the folk who saw AT THE TIME what O'Driscoll was trying to do when he took us on a run of 45 points from 38 matches at this level in 2007 with a squad that was better than this one in every position. Because I'm f***ed if I could see it. But as I say, I was categorically wrong. I wonder if those who hurl abuse at Dickov (not aiming this at you by the way) ever stop to think that they might be wrong this time?