The retro feel to this season gathers momentum. First we assembled a squad uncannily similar to 2008, now we have the same manager as in 2006, and are well on the way to occupying the same league position as 2002, when we headed for a fixture at Forest Green at the end of September with just a single win in the bank...
All our yesterdays but not the ones we like to remember.
And now Imraan is dropping hints that the new boss will be a big name. Ye gods, are we going full cycle back to Gazza? After all, it has uncharacteristically long since our reclusive, camera shy chairman last courted publicity by pairing Morrell Maison (remember him?) with Big Ron.
You can count on the fingers of one hand (half a hand if from Rushden) the number of big names who have dropped into non-League and cut the mustard.
What we need is someone who knows football at this level and can hit the ground running, not risk us plunging further into trouble whilst he learns the ropes.
Oh, and with the contacts to bring in players on loan who can make a difference.
And cheap.
As we await Imraan's next dramatic move, it is small comfort to examine his record in this area to date. Not quite five years at the club, six managerial appointments resulting in four sackings, one ludicrous short term fix that failed, and one success. In other words, P6, W1, D0, L5.
I suspect that the fortunes of DRC Locums were built on rather better judgment than that, but then Imraan isn't the first chairman to discover that being good in one field doesn't automatically extend to others.
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