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I have done this sort of thing for a living. Change processes etc. Before you can change anything you need to understand why things were done the way they are currently, cause you could just be throwing the good out with the bad, who is able to assist in facilitating the changes in the organisation, be that players or other staff around the club. A good way to get everybody offside is just change things for change sake. The organisation needs a shake up, and now that CC has done his due diligence he is implementing the changes and that is always going to be upsetting to those who saw no problem with the way things worked before, but as they say if you do the same thing don't be surprised if you get the same result.
Exactly right mate …
When you take on the challenge of rebuilding a losing environment, especially a wooden spoon sports team with a long term losing culture …. as you mentioned …. you can’t just go in there demolish everything send it to the scrap heap and rebuild, in this instance there’s legal contracts involved, these are young mens careers we’re taking about and how they make a living, so you have to be sensitive to that, you need to be sure about the decisions your going to make, your dealing with multiple personalities, ego’s, plus as we’re seeing, your under the medias microscope, you have to be given time to professionally assess the full situation because there’s so many moving parts, Gould’s very aware of all of this, I feel that’s why he’s left Ciraldo alone, they’ve already formulated their plan.
Over time you start to see where the losing cultures leaking from, you formulate a plan and slowly implement changes, and you start to set standards to ensure those changes are met, some urgent problems you can’t remove as quickly as you’d like, but if push the right buttons those problems can generally take care of themselves.
No matter what new environment you go into, especially a losing one, when you start to make changes you get push back, and that’s not a bad thing because normally the push back highlights the root of the problems.
Maybe Gus & CC’s are smarter than we think they are, this year might have been an assess the situation, pull the plug and drain the losing culture, and implement winning changes type of year, remove the ones that are comfortable with the losing culture, that can’t or won’t change, and slowly start the long road upwards.
Next year should be interesting to watch and will probably show us that these blokes know what they’re doing …