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Anyone noticed that there have been several outgoings on the quiet, but not a lot of incomings?

Something doesn’t seem right behind the scenes, I know for a fact some roles have been made redundant, and it’s not like we have a large staff in the first place.

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Perhaps it’s because the Front room staff are leaving?
:wink:

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Wow. What roles?

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Sausage roles. All burnt out, apparently.

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https://www.saddlers.co.uk/club/job-vacancies/

Maybe the really big teams like Barrow, Sutton & AFC Wimbledon offer better than scratchings

We have been advertising for a First Team Physio since 22.10.22, a Senior Groundsperson since 07.09.22 unless whoever looks after the Official Site cant be arsed to update it

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I think we are going to struggle to fill the Senior Grounds person roll
It states that you have to supply your own mower :face_with_hand_over_mouth: :wink:

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Some pound shop grass seed will sort it.

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I believe what was left of our scouting department has gone, and the role they have advertised for Head of Academy Education and Designated Safeguarding Officer is now a combined role, indicating that both Sue Lane and Nick Adshead have gone.

Also, we’ve churned through several Fitness Coaches lately, and Ben King left a while ago and has yet to be replaced.

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This is an important point though. What Smith did & all good leaders do well, is build great teams around them.

Smith had O‘Kelly, Cutler, Whitney, love any of those back at the club.

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Three things here for me.

  1. Cutting, combining, or not filling roles = penny pinching
  2. We can’t attract people to fill the roles, or staff leave to other clubs at a similar level = poor proposition to potential employees.
  3. We sacrifice important back room staff for the sake of signing a crap player = short-termism

A manager is only as good as his backroom team, look at Smith without O’Kelly and Cutler, employing an extra, quality, coach is sometimes worth more than 2 useless loanees.

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Sue Lane is retiring at the end of the season and Nick Adshead will be taking on new responsibilities such as the administration of the Women’s section (which is a shambles at present), among others.

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The salary for that role is pitiful, £24k is really low.

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Thought Mole was doing a good job at that? :thinking:

As for the salary of that role, yes £24k is low given the responsibilities.
We’ve got general admin staff at university getting over £30k with no major managerial responsibility.

Club trying to pay peanuts and wonder why staff are leaving.

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Dan Mole has not attended a single Women’s Section game, this season.

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Didn’t Dame Omelette Biggins say last week that DM was doing a fantastic job with the development of the Womens side of the Club? Strange.

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Because Mole told him he was :joy: :wink:

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Oh of course, that’s it. :laughing:

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