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Unknown Manager Takes Highland Helm
Football fans around Scotland woke up to a surprise on the 3rd July 2012. It had been announced that Sean Page was to become Manager at Inverness Caledonian Thistle with immediate effect. Waves of criticism have already been hurled at the Inverness Board, claiming that appointing such an inexperienced Manager would end up detrimental to the club. Indeed, Page had little more than youth coaching experience and was working towards his UEFA B licence and had never worked at a senior level. Chairman Alan Savage issued the following statement:
"We are pleased to announce Sean as our new manager. We understand that people will be concerned with appointing someone without a proven track record. However, after speaking at length with Sean we were impressed with his playing philosophy and his vision for the club and believe it to be the best way forward for the club. We can see a bright and prosperous future here with Sean at the helm and seek that the fans will stand behind him."
When Page arrived at the Tulloch Caledonian Stadium after his long journey from the South Coast of England, he was fully prepared for the media onslaught ahead. Namely, how he as an inexperienced player and coach could seriously manage at this level and what this playing philosophy and vision was that had taken in the board so well.
"A great manager once said that you do not have to have been a horse, to be a jockey. I am not worried about my lack of playing experience. I have studied the game rigorously and I know how I want my teams to play. We will press the opposition and force them to play well to get it round us. Everyone will know their role and perform it within a cohesive team. Most importantly we will attack and impose our play on the opposition, we will force them to play at our tempo and push them to their limits. I am a big believer in individual creativity providing that team defensive duties are performed and I encourage all players to be as imaginative as they can be. I believe there is a good set up here for developing players and there are several future SPL stars here, but I believe I can take this further. In the future, we will have one of the strongest academies in the world and have a proven record for producing world class players. I will not need to sign anyone except players that can enter the academy at U18 level. In a few years time I expect football fans across the globe to turn on the television, only to struggle to work out whether it is the blue and red strips of Inverness playing, or Barcelona."
Unknown Manager Takes Highland Helm
Football fans around Scotland woke up to a surprise on the 3rd July 2012. It had been announced that Sean Page was to become Manager at Inverness Caledonian Thistle with immediate effect. Waves of criticism have already been hurled at the Inverness Board, claiming that appointing such an inexperienced Manager would end up detrimental to the club. Indeed, Page had little more than youth coaching experience and was working towards his UEFA B licence and had never worked at a senior level. Chairman Alan Savage issued the following statement:
"We are pleased to announce Sean as our new manager. We understand that people will be concerned with appointing someone without a proven track record. However, after speaking at length with Sean we were impressed with his playing philosophy and his vision for the club and believe it to be the best way forward for the club. We can see a bright and prosperous future here with Sean at the helm and seek that the fans will stand behind him."
When Page arrived at the Tulloch Caledonian Stadium after his long journey from the South Coast of England, he was fully prepared for the media onslaught ahead. Namely, how he as an inexperienced player and coach could seriously manage at this level and what this playing philosophy and vision was that had taken in the board so well.
"A great manager once said that you do not have to have been a horse, to be a jockey. I am not worried about my lack of playing experience. I have studied the game rigorously and I know how I want my teams to play. We will press the opposition and force them to play well to get it round us. Everyone will know their role and perform it within a cohesive team. Most importantly we will attack and impose our play on the opposition, we will force them to play at our tempo and push them to their limits. I am a big believer in individual creativity providing that team defensive duties are performed and I encourage all players to be as imaginative as they can be. I believe there is a good set up here for developing players and there are several future SPL stars here, but I believe I can take this further. In the future, we will have one of the strongest academies in the world and have a proven record for producing world class players. I will not need to sign anyone except players that can enter the academy at U18 level. In a few years time I expect football fans across the globe to turn on the television, only to struggle to work out whether it is the blue and red strips of Inverness playing, or Barcelona."