Lower West If we are relegated Clement would have been the ideal candidate to bring the U23's through given his coaching credentials.
Well, many Clement fans reckon he'd have kept us up, so we wouldn't be in League 1 anyway. Clement's 'coaching credentials' amounted to little here, and wasn't really known for bringing youth thru (Rino happened only when forced on him thru a lot injuries).
Also, in League 1 I think you'd find the onus of the manager - any manager - would be to get us back up asap, a la Blackburn, Wigan, Rovrum. As such, I wouldn't necessarily see a vast influx of U23's. In fact, pursuant to promotion, we may even sign some vets.
Lower West The question I would pose is if we are relegated was the switch in management worthwhile?
You can pose whatever question you want, even the same one every week.
And I could give you my answer, but it would make no difference because the decision was already made by the club
For sake of discussion, let's suppose we all thought it was the wrong move. Ok, so what? The club has made wrong decisions before, and they will again. We move on after all of them.
sandman Millwall game was lost within the first 20 minutes due to his tactics leaving us a man down.
His tactics got one of our players sent off after 8 minutes? (Thought in here a manager - any manager - wasn't accountable in his first 2 games anyway?)
Anyway, his 1st game aside, maybe he's learning because we haven't had a player sent off since.
(In Clement's first 6 games, we had 4 players sent off. Was that due to his tactics? I don't recall you criticizing him for same?)
Are you thrilled with the win yesterday btw?
Snowball When he can address the weaknesses (in particular central midfield) I could easily see him managing us to a top six place.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. We're not out of the woods yet and we're still in deep shite.
I'll have a better idea on next season in Aug once I've seen who we signed, etc.