Now that Hill has gone and attention turns to who his successor will be, the most patient fans in football are going to have to be more patient than ever.
No matter what you think of Hill and his departure — personally not surprised, nor in the way it happened. He’s always been about himself, his reign was littered with contradictions and hypocrisy, however his management style was fabulous, style of play a joy to watch and results and achievements second to none — huge shoes to fill.
With interviews this week, whoever Dunphy appoints may not have all or even any of Hill’s management qualities. Hill has been poached by a Championship club for good reason. Whoever we appoint hasn’t.
We may get lucky, like we did 4 and a half years ago, but it’s quite unlikely. Keeping us up this season would have still been a big ask for Hill, with all his qualities and continuity, and our best players (who, lets face it will be on Hill’s list if he decides to dry-bum us even more by unsettling the likes of COG) so for a new man, his staff and new players to come in and steady a rocky ship is going to be a mammoth task, just keeping us in league 1. Our playing budget will probably still put us in the bottom 4.
Many are talking as if a new guy’s going to come in and just carry on where Hill left off, but its unlikely to be as easy as that. If it happens and we stay up — great. If we do better than that, then fantastic. But if we go down we need to go down fighting — as TEAM ROCHDALE.
I can’t see Dunphy appointing someone like the (un-named) odious creeps we’ve had in the recent past, so we need to place our trust in our board, stick together and get behind the new regime. Our patience will be sorely tried, but we’re going to have to show plenty of it. Our new manager will not be Keith Hill — he’s somewhat unique, but keep the faith all the same!
Roll on the next 7-year plan.
Just hope we pass the arrogant get on our way up whilst the Yarksher turds continue to slide!
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