STURTZ
Very well known Exeweb poster
Always said I would make my assessment of his abilities after 10 games of his first full season with us. We're nearly there (including Cup matches) and I think it's fair to say he's a very good manager indeed, (must say I've suspected as much from the moment we got him, well gone to the board for a apointing him).
First season all we wanted was mid table safety which was assured fairly early, even the much vaunted 6 defeats in a row didn't phase us. Caldwell didn't put a foot wrong and, working with Matt Taylors team, achieved the sort of L1 respectability that I have always wanted from our club.
Caldwell strikes me as an ambitious manager and, with success will move on at some point, probably when he can take us no further such as when it becomes apparent that we cannot compete with other clubs due to our financial limitations. This was alluded to by Taylor before he left us for Rotherham.
This season we have had early success relying on an unusual investment in loanees. Great in the short term great football and results have put us top, unbelievable! Sell out matches every other week, money coming in only limited by our ground capacity.
In the long term not so good and when those loanees go back to their parent clubs it will only be their clubs chairmen rubbing their hands together, we will not have the usual financial bonus of cashing in on those players and doubt we will be able to afford to buy them (which is what Argyle have done).
But this is about Caldwell who has merely done all that could be asked of him in finding good available players on the cheap. He has stated that we are at a point between youth development and the first team where we have very few players ready to break into the team. but with so many promising youth leaving before they have even got to the first team it's hard to see us ever being able to field teams of multiple academy boys at this level. No players to sell, no money in the kitty.
Confident we'll do well under GC this season, commitment and top marks for his efforts, think he'll go far, got to say I'm enjoying it as much as anyone, but as a club shouldn't we be worried by short termism?
First season all we wanted was mid table safety which was assured fairly early, even the much vaunted 6 defeats in a row didn't phase us. Caldwell didn't put a foot wrong and, working with Matt Taylors team, achieved the sort of L1 respectability that I have always wanted from our club.
Caldwell strikes me as an ambitious manager and, with success will move on at some point, probably when he can take us no further such as when it becomes apparent that we cannot compete with other clubs due to our financial limitations. This was alluded to by Taylor before he left us for Rotherham.
This season we have had early success relying on an unusual investment in loanees. Great in the short term great football and results have put us top, unbelievable! Sell out matches every other week, money coming in only limited by our ground capacity.
In the long term not so good and when those loanees go back to their parent clubs it will only be their clubs chairmen rubbing their hands together, we will not have the usual financial bonus of cashing in on those players and doubt we will be able to afford to buy them (which is what Argyle have done).
But this is about Caldwell who has merely done all that could be asked of him in finding good available players on the cheap. He has stated that we are at a point between youth development and the first team where we have very few players ready to break into the team. but with so many promising youth leaving before they have even got to the first team it's hard to see us ever being able to field teams of multiple academy boys at this level. No players to sell, no money in the kitty.
Confident we'll do well under GC this season, commitment and top marks for his efforts, think he'll go far, got to say I'm enjoying it as much as anyone, but as a club shouldn't we be worried by short termism?
