Why would an experienced manager like Harvey need support and guidance from a director on footballing matters? Harvey will have his own assistant, coaches etc. to deal with that.
The operations director, director of football or whatever you call him would still have other directors and a chairman to report to and liaise with anyway.
More trouble than its worth in my view.
Agree, but what we do need is someone with a lot of footballing pedigree on the board who is not taking an interest in day to day matters but does take an interest in the bigger decisions, like if the manager needs to go, who to appoint, how many coaches we need etc, the footballing structure of the club, the budgets we set for first team, reserves, coaching staff, youth etc.
Today, from the outside looking in does anyone really look at the decisions we've made as a club in the last 12-18 months regarding footballing matters and think 'there's a club with a solid philosophy and a good idea of how to achieve success'? No way, we look like a clueless sugar daddy having a crack at running a football club except without the big bank account to mask all the amateurism.
Is it too much to ask to acknowledge weve made bad decisions and we want to find a way of avoiding repeats of it? You can't learn as you go along in football. It'll be too late before we've got a clue.