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fan meta create account log in subscribe entries rss comments rss posts tagged human resource management unsung heroes posted by john beech on october 14 2011 the news that plymouth argyle s players and administrative staff are still failing to get their full pay 1 is not of course really news at all this situation has been going on for roughly a year it s a message of despair that has become as familiar as peter ridsdale cooing that he expects a deal to be finalised very shortly there are still those who do not break out in sympathy with the players at least you know the sort of stuff overpaid prima donnas serves then right no sympathy whatsoever this is of course nonsense plymouth argyle is not a premier league club and the majority of players are on salaries that do not even begin to approach the telephone numbers that premier league players command they do have the professional footballers association supporting them though still it s hardly easy to adjust to dramatic changes in family income whatever your salary is i should know i once had no choice but to make the first mrs beech redundant from our shared workplace the administrative staff will undoubtedly be on generally lower salaries and i have even more sympathy for them apart from being worse off financially they didn t sign up to a profession where a transfer to somewhere else in the country was going to be an industry norm i m sure most of them are local folk who have more than demonstrated their loyalty to a club which is not just their employer but a club that they care about they are the real unsung heroes in a different news story today another super loyal administrator in the non insolvency sense of the word has left his club employer after an amazing 38 years now there s loyalty this is the case of portsmouth s club secretary paul weld 2 as the club website points out paul has worked through nine changes of ownership 19 different managers 22 if you include frank burrows alan ball and harry redknapp all of whom managed pompey twice encompassing two periods of administration four relegations four promotions one fa cup final triumph one fa cup final defeat and a season in europe no doubt it was the two periods of administration that must have caused the greatest stress in the weld household why did he remain so loyal when there must have been more secure job opportunities open to him over the years well a pompey fan paul was an active member of the london supporters club before arriving at fratton park from the football association as assistant to the then secretary jimmy dickinson before taking over as club secretary so someone to whom it was clearly more than just a job and here s a hint paul yours is an autobiography that i can t wait to read i m sure there are similar stories to be told at a myriad of clubs let s not forget these unsung heroes especially in the troubling circumstances of the current plymouth argyle administrative staff a club is much more than just the team who turn on saturdays let s hope that those directly involved in the takeover negotiations can bring a rapid close to the brinkmanship and haggling and show a little humanity to their loyal staff and their families share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in community human resource management identity insolvency investors tagged community human resource management identity insolvency investors leave a comment substitutes and cheating posted by john beech on july 21 2011 the football league has announced that its member clubs have voted voted to reduce the number of substitutes that can be named on the teamsheet for matches in the npower football league from 7 to 5 1 as a rationale for this change it was stated that this was felt to be a sensible and prudent step given the financial challenges facing many football clubs and the commitment made earlier this summer to adopt uefa s financial fair play framework or to put it another way it s ultimately a good way of cutting costs by employing a marginally smaller squad i for one would like to see a change in the rules regarding the actual substitutions allowed nothing imposes such a feeling of anti climax at the end of a tense game is the tactical and essentially unnecessary substitution of players as the final whistle approaches it has far more to do with the gamesmanship of stephen potter than the gamesmanship of what used to be the beautiful game musing on this i turned out an early report by the football league but actually published in the fa yearbook 1966 67 and hence not available online i m afraid called substitutes an experiment justified it begins when the football league introduced its substitute rule at the beginning of the 1965 66 season it was received with misgivings from many people inside and outside the game many of those who were against it chose to ignore the fact that substitution of players for injury has been permitted by the laws of the game for a good number of years the second sentence came as a surprise to me did substitution actually take place before 1965 surely in that era the culture was for a player to battle on hiding injury in spite of the danger of exacerbating it causing permanent injury think bert trautman the report continues there were many forecasts of the amount of cheating sic and misuse which would follow in point of fact there has been no instance of the substitute by a manager in order to gain a tactical advantage over his team s opponents would that the same could be said today data in the report broadly backs up the claim it records that 772 substitutions had been made in 2 028 league games these occurred during games thus period of game substitutions up to 10 minutes 26 11 to 19 minutes 31 20 to 29 minutes 55 30 to 45 minutes 141 total first half 253 46 to 59 minutes 182 60 to 69 minutes 100 70 to 79 minutes 110 80 to 85 minutes 106 86 to 90 minutes 21 total second half 519 the number of substitutions in those days was limited to one and as the report says if substitution is raised to two this would increase the danger of substitutes being used tactically which is really what everyone wants to avoid substitution was in any case only permitted then for injury subsequently everyone apparently stopped wanting to avoid the use of tactical substitution and we have seen the number permitted on the bench grow to 5 in 1996 and then the about to be abandoned level of 7 in 2008 memory fails me on when tactical i e for reasons other than injury substitution was first allowed any offers do i detect in all of this the idea that the football league cares less about the game and its enjoyment by fans today than it did in 1965 and cares more about the costs of its member clubs perhaps i m being a little harsh substitution for injury is a principle i would strongly defend on the grounds of players well being and i wouldn t want a return to pre 1965 practices it s just that it seems to me we have gone too far with tactical substitution something which i still want to avoid to use the league s phrase share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in costs ethics football league health safety human resource management organisational culture players careers tagged costs ethics football league health safety human resource management organisational culture players careers 2 comments the fickle fate of football managers posted by john beech on march 14 2011 this morning s announcement that aidy boothroyd has been sacked as manager of coventry city 1 brings a local dimension for me on that increasingly common fate for a manager who does not bring success to their club there is a second very recent local case that of ian sampson at northampton town 2 which i will turn to below in boothroyd s case his team had produced only one win in the last sixteen games so it is pretty clear that some action by the board was justified in a general sense though and i emphasise that i not focusing on recent form and events at coventry there are the unaddressed and i suspect internally unasked by a board of directors questions a have we given this manager a chance to show his mettle beyond the short term situation he inherited b have we given him the support he might reasonably expect and c are there any issues to do with his recruitment and appointment that we the board have been in any way at fault with i doubt that in general the answers to these three questions are an unequivocal yes yes and no at coventry there have been recent board changes 3 so there may be at least an element of new brushes and sweeping clean nevertheless as recently as five weeks ago chairman ray ranson 4 someone not exactly unversed in the vaguaries of the football sector who has been chairman of coventry city for just over three years and who must accept the responsibility for boothroyd s appointment in may last year said there are no issues whatsoever with aidy we re still very supportive of the manager 5 not of course that such statements of confidence in a manager are infrequently an omen of a sacking at northampton town at the beginning of this month ian sampson was sacked as manager 6 having failed to produce a win in the previous seven games in this case the three questions i have posed certainly need to be asked sampson had been an employee of the club since 1994 he had played 449 games for the club then been promoted from youth team coach to first team coach then caretaker manager and finally manager in october 2009 he was given a fresh three year contract in march 2010 seven failures to produce a win sets sampson s recent form in an unfairly poor light six of the results had been draws chairman david cardoza defended the sacking of an employee with seventeen years service thus the club must always come first but that doesn t make this decision any easier i my fellow directors the staff and supporters all wanted ian to succeed i really hoped ian would prove a successful manager here but i did not see enough signs that we were improving as a side ian had put together a decent squad and in a way that made our league position all the more unacceptable and we are at a crucial time of year i wanted to make this change now to give us time to go through a detailed recruitment process and to give the new man time to assess the squad before the end of the season to look at the budget for next season and have a full summer to recruit and make the changes they see fit no one is ruled in and no one is ruled out as we begin our search for our next manager i think this will be an attractive job ironic that you should think that david ian sampson himself had said just before christmas i m a fairly loyal person i was happy with my work and the environment created by northampton when you re happy you don t look to go anywhere else not of course unless you re sacked that is if sampson were guilty of incompetence á la peter principle would the decent thing not have been to have moved him sideways rather than that ultimate and brutal decision to sack him wouldn t it be rather fine if just once a director put his hand up and said i accept full responsibility for the appointment of this manager did the decent thing and resigned himself update 28 march 2011 a rather more reasonable approach is shown at scarborough athletic a share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in human resource management organisational culture players careers tagged human resource management organisational culture players careers 4 comments open season on interns posted by john beech on march 10 2011 yes it s the gunfight at the cobham coral saga for those of you not up to date with the jargon of 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