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My gut feeling is that, realistically, this is the recruitment area we are going to have to aim for, at least as far as the next appointment is concerned.
The talk of Briers/M. McGuire/Holbrook is fanciful wishing on our part I think. I feel that, right now in 2024, we are too great a risk for candidates of that nature to put their reputations on the line. The only way any one of those three will pitch in with us is if Myler can persuade them that we are a club on the move upwards once more and sell the club as an exciting prospect to be developed thereby enticing someone of that calibre to join us, or Pearson/Myler put a colossal salary on the table!
I hate to say it, but I think either Danny Ward or Danny McGuire (or Martin Gleeson?) would be our most realistic target. Whether any of them would take up the 'chalice' is another matter.
It's not as if we've temporarily lost our way any are simply in need of someone to steer the ship into calmer waters. We have fallen so far backwards that the job of resurrecting the club looks massive, it will be a brave (or desperate) soul that feels confident enough to want to take it on.
I wouldn't be too despondent if it was either Ward or McGuire taking over (that's just a realistic view from me on where we are right now). Maybe one of those can at least steer us upwards a touch, making us seem to be a more attractive choice in 2/3 years time for someone else to take over the reins.
I'm afraid we may have to walk (slowly) at first before we can contemplate running at full pelt once more. We are where we are for a reason and the road back is a long way ahead of us. I hope I'm wrong on this, but I honestly don't see any white knight in shining armour steaming in to rescue us and lead us to the summit. This is going to take an extraordinarily amount of hard work just to put us back on an even keel, before we can even think about challenging at the top again.