claretonthecoast1882 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 7:57 am
Poor lurker really isn't going to get over Rigg getting his job is he.
Nope, not until he puts in a performance worthy of his job title and salary.
After his departure from Fulham, and prior to joining us, he spent two years loitering on the periphery of football at the SRi. We plucked him from impending football obscurity. In a sense he is the Danny Drinkwater of football recruitment. To be fair to Drinkwater though, at least he has a good season or two on his record. Given his career performance to date, I genuinely can't understand why we hired Rigg to fill such an important and influential position.
First Window - do nothing / react to an unexpected offer to buy Vokes / sign Crouch
Second Window - Sell Heaton / buy Jay ( previous target ) / buy Pieters / buy BPF / loan Drinkwater
Third Window - do nothing / react to expected offers to buy Wells
Has he impressed you so far ?
Please forgive me for wanting what is best for our club and being wary of a bloke who has wasted mega millions on poor transfers over the course of his career. If it wasn't for their rich owners QPR and Fulham would have gone to the wall in response to his transfer strategies, even Man City couldn't countenance his poor results to expenditure ratio.
The supporters of QPR and Fulham didn't put his contribution under the microscope and expose it to a critical evaluation until it was far to late. We don't have the luxury of a rich owner ( not that having one seems to make much difference to Rigg other than the level of spending he advocates ) so getting a positive productive performance from our recruitment team is hugely important. Irrespective of their individual qualities, they can't hope to do that with poor leadership and calamitous strategic decision making to the fore.
Looking at the last three windows ( although this one isn't over yet ) we were doing better before Rigg arrived. Which is a poor state of affairs, because we were simply doing okay at that point in time.
When Rigg steps up to the plate and starts performing I will happily step off my soap box and stop questioning why we are trusting him with our scouting / recruitment and paying him what is undoubtedly a big wage.
Personally, I think after a full year of working beside him ( and learning what he does and how he goes about things ) the people around him could probably get along perfectly well without him. At least until we can hire a proven performer to head up our recruitment.