- Sun Oct 10, 2021 10:41 am
#36674
I don’t like negativity; when one of the usual crew starts moaning on here or on Twitter I usually ignore it, only occasionally rising to the bait and condemning their attitude.
After yesterday’s dismal performance, however, something needs to be said, and it’s this: time for change is a meaningless expression, a weasel phrase that is full of sound and fury and signifies nothing. T K Maxx say “always up to 60% off”. Well, 0% is up to 60%, and anyway, 60% off what?
At the first Meet the Coaches event in the fan zone, JT said that, for example, everybody now knows everybody else’s name, now matter where they are in the hierarchy. An excellent and laudable notion, but how many points does it add to the board?
The next meeting with the coaches was a couple of weeks ago, where the message was repeated along with a chart clearly prepared by somebody with a marketing qualification from Wyre Piddle University. It purported to show the “dark” and “light” areas of something, but I don’t think even JT fully understood it.
Those who attended the two meetings were impressed by the attitude, and genuinely believed that things would start to turn around. I still don’t doubt JT’s intentions, but can’t help thinking of the Emperor’s new clothes. We seem to be back in the same old pattern – how long before the “perennial bottom feeders” phrase is repeated in the press?
I don’t know the answer, but then I’m not a coach. Something is continuing to go wrong; please identify it, sort it and lose the hackneyed slogans.
After yesterday’s dismal performance, however, something needs to be said, and it’s this: time for change is a meaningless expression, a weasel phrase that is full of sound and fury and signifies nothing. T K Maxx say “always up to 60% off”. Well, 0% is up to 60%, and anyway, 60% off what?
At the first Meet the Coaches event in the fan zone, JT said that, for example, everybody now knows everybody else’s name, now matter where they are in the hierarchy. An excellent and laudable notion, but how many points does it add to the board?
The next meeting with the coaches was a couple of weeks ago, where the message was repeated along with a chart clearly prepared by somebody with a marketing qualification from Wyre Piddle University. It purported to show the “dark” and “light” areas of something, but I don’t think even JT fully understood it.
Those who attended the two meetings were impressed by the attitude, and genuinely believed that things would start to turn around. I still don’t doubt JT’s intentions, but can’t help thinking of the Emperor’s new clothes. We seem to be back in the same old pattern – how long before the “perennial bottom feeders” phrase is repeated in the press?
I don’t know the answer, but then I’m not a coach. Something is continuing to go wrong; please identify it, sort it and lose the hackneyed slogans.