I have a feeling that Neil Tolson was appointed because of his community hall links. It was a lazy and ultimately wrong decision and we have paid the price. I like Tolson, think he is a good guy, but looking at his record at Hyde United and his open admission that he is a coach not a manager means that I wouldn't have appointed him in a million years. The footballing decisions made by management and board this season have been ludicrous. From the summer signings of O'Keefe , Griffith etc to the ridiculous decision made by the board with ten games left. My concern now is that we'll start next year with Tolson in charge because we've dropped down to the North. The board at alty do plenty right but I feel the eye has been taken off the main focus, which at every football club should be the football team. This impending relegation was so avoidable.
A very fair and concise summing up. You have to ask if we'd advertised the position and a manager with Tolson's record has applied would he have been anywhere near being appointed?
You also touching on the summer signings. I lost confidence with the Griffith signing. Not because of what transpired but aside from the fact we were signing a player who'd only played twice in 2016 or whatever it was (and alarm bells really should have rung!) but we were signing a player who even his best references of his peak years said he could run but not pass to save his life. Now we signed him because he was available and he was our late signing but replacing Cavanagh we effectively changed our whole way of playing by removing our passing holding midfielder just because Griffith was available.
Was this planned? Was it always what we were looking for? It just struck me as odd and indicative that perhaps we weren't as clear headed as we needed to be at all.