One Wayne at a Time: Managers Special
May 26th
Well so much for MY quiet close season break. With the euphoria of final day survival less than three weeks ago, yesterday saw the hugely unexpected puff of green smoke go up at the largely unanticipated venue of an FA Cup final anticipating audience packed into Wembley Stadium.
The announcement, accompanied by whatever is the opposite of a pin drop in social media terms, of the arrival of the new Argyle head coach, Wayne Rooney, was made, not by the traditional triumvirate of Parkinson, Hallett and Dewsnip, but by the altogether more media familiar trio of Lineker, Richards and Shearer.
Lineker himself started the show by announcing he did not expect his first question regarding this seasonâs second consecutive Mancunian derby Cup Final to be about Plymouth Argyle. Wayne hit his marks immediately, appearing both grateful and humble to be joining Argyle, immediately ticking the âdonât call us Plymouthâ box so essential in carrying the Green Army with him.
He then made another strong statement by declining Micah Richards offer of availability for a role, any role, should he have one. Pilgrim Peteâs job is safe in Wayneâs hands it seems. Such was the positive impact of the press coverage on the club since Rooneyâs emergence as a shock candidate for the role, I am half expecting Rishi to attend the Championship play-off final in a green and white scarf to try and leech some of the positive vibes for his stumbling campaign.
Rewind a few weeks, and the post Foster replacement search that only started in earnest after that final day determination of our next seasons starting level, had already been thrown into turmoil by the emergence of a candidate only made possible by the very defeat that his Hull side suffered that day. Liam Rosenior was, having taken his side from 21st to 7th in a season, unceremoniously turfed from his role by Turkish Simon Cowell wanabee Acun Ilicani.
Indeed, as well as Argyle and Sunderland in the new manager stakes, Hull were joined in their quest by, in fairly short order, Norwich after David Wagner was summarily removed following play-off semi-final collapse against Leeds, and Birmingham after caretaker Rowett was joined at the exit door by a recovering Tony Mowbray, who we wish a complete recovery too. Burnley boss Kompany, part of the returning Championship promotion triumvirate of last season, looks set for a remarkable transformation by joining Bayern Munich leaving a seat at the Turf Moor table. Rob Edwards, despite being safe as houses despite a relegation at Luton, could be part of the moving furniture based on the final destination of Ipswich boss McKenna. Sadly, for Ipswich we all know the outcome of Final Destination movies, and they tend not to be good for the innocent bystanders.
They vacancy list could well be swelled by the outcome of todayâs play-off game and of course whatever musical chairs result from the resolution of United, Chelsea and Brightonâs search for a boss.
Rosenior went from not in the running to firm favourite in the Argyle stakes, both for his personality and demeanour, as well as his coaching reputation. Originally forged as number two to, wait for it, Wayne Rooney, at a Derby County hamstrung by the financial shenanigans that meant they suffered 21 points of deductions and an inability to sign players beyond free agents and free loans, he had taken the head coach role from Rooney on his departure. After being sacked by an impatient Derby board following their relegation to League One, when his promotion challenge was derailed by a two nil up to three two defeat at Pride Park to no less than Argyle, his availability after being unemployed after his next defeat at our hands seemed a logical self-preservation decision as much as anything else.
With other past candidates such as Duff, quickly installed at Huddersfield and Bonnar, likewise at Gillingham becoming unavailable, the betting odds were somewhat meagre. The perennial ânameâ of Neil Warnock, the mainstay of lazy odds lists and even lazier thinking was ruled out when he took the pension boosting role of football mentor to newly installed Torquay boss Paul Wotton. Even Parkway found a boss in short order, and potentially forged a link with them up the road.
Names like Will Still, the young Belgian Brit who was leaving Rheims and Anthony Barry, number two at Bayern and Portugal, both of whom had ambitions for a first coaching role in the Championship were rumoured to be in the interview shortlist.
Also, there was Paul Heckinbottom, as along with Rosenior, Argyle scoured the length and breadth of Yorkshire and Humberside for their new leader. Available after his inevitable defenestration at Sheffield United, and their record breaking goal tally in the EPL, but which unfortunately was only the record in the goals against column, at one stage the ever unreliable Alan Nixon declared the job was âhis if he wanted itâ.
Rosenior left the betting, apparently unwilling to relocate, but also perhaps in the ambition to join a more highly regarded club, with Brighton briefly rumoured. Perhaps we will meet him next season. Third times the charm Liam.
Whilst Still, still, had his supporters and the main concern on Barry was that he might not be around for preseason if los Lusos performed at the Euros, various foreign managers known only to the dedicated internet trawlers and Football Manager fraternity came and went.
And then, the bolt from the blues. Wayne was in the frame. If there was a conspiracy theory around his inclusion the reaction was bucolic. Another Dewsnip protégé. Ex Everton. Suspect character. Poor record. They were all there.
Time for this correspondent to address the elephant in the room. OGAAT thrives on personalities like Wazza. In the spirit of pro-green entertainment, the opposition having a manager who arrives and turns a promotion chasing club into a relegation rival despite his heroic status as the second highest international scorer his country has ever produced, is comedy gold. Wagatha Christie. Auld Slapper. You couldnât make it up. Milk itâŠ.damn right I milked it.
Agent Rooney. Did he already know his future laid to the West? Was he secretly ensuring his future employers would start at the level they were desperate to cling onto?
The main concern of the twitterati seemed to be to avoid Argyle becoming a laughingstock. Surely Argyles data driven search was going to throw up a wider candidate profile than a fourth scouser in a row and a third with a deep existential connection to our Director of Football. What about the no KH rule? Do multiple marital transgressions, a drink driving conviction and a past admitted affinity to sex workers not qualify? Does the thrice failed management career qualify him for the role of ensuring a club with the lowest, or at best second lowest, budget in the division can survive, perchance to thrive?
Argyle donât have a long tradition of superstar managers. Shilton was the last, and he was regarded as the figurehead whilst McGovern did the hard yards in training and tactics. Not famed for his oratory, he apparently tried to inspire his side when losing with the story of the Pheasant from the flames. When a player had the temerity to suggest that rather than a pheasant, Shilton might have meant a phoenix, Shilton shrugged him off with a simple, âwell I knew it began with an F.â
They also donât have a tradition of Waynes. There was Wayne Burnett, a silky midfielder, who had a chequered past having been a party to Arsenals David Hilliers theft of a Danish businessmanâs briefcase at an airport, which led to Hillier being convicted and fined. Burnett is now the Spurs U23 manager so someone we have regular contact with after Phillips and Devine came on loan and who may return
Wayne OâSullivan was the only other. Here briefly and in the darker lower league days before heading down under.
Today we only have Ben Waine, and thatâs not even the right spelling. Although if you are a young striker I would imagine Wayne Rooney might be someone you would like to spend a bit of training ground time with.
So how did we alight on Wayne. Did our three wise men dust off their list of criteria and go down the pile of applicants like a Panini sticker wants list, got, got, need?
Young? Well yes, younger than Foster. In fact, younger than Schumacher.
Experienced at this level? As a player not really. Wayne started at the top and stayed there until arriving at Derby as player/coach. As a manager his first gig was Derby County where he operated under the madcap reign of owner Mel Morris, who managed to blow two hundred million pounds as he took Derby to the third tier of English football, from which they have just returned. In his time there Rooney managed his side to mid table and then almost overcame a twenty-one point EFL points deduction handicap to escape relegation in his second season, and that with only a handful of contracted players, operated with both hands tied behind his back to build a side that only just slipped under. He was replaced by his assistant Liam Rosenior, who as we have seen lasted until an October home defeat to the eventual League Champions that season saw him depart as well.
Anecdotal evidence says Rooney was a good man manager and motivator. And he took a cash strapped side to an effective solid mid table position before the points penalties bit. Another plus? One side that suffered relegation as a result were our old friends Why-come.
Also, it was he who stepped away as the club sought to change ownership. With administration in effect, Rooney resigned, and despite the efforts of the administrators to keep him, said the club needed fresh energy.
Overseas Coaching? Well, given the success of relegation rivals last season QPR and Wednesday with taking on board coaches from other leagues (and overlooking, because it doesnât suit the argument, the failure of overseas coaches at Huddersfield and Wednesday before Rohls arrival), Rooney gets a tick there also.
OK, it was the MLS in America, and at his former club DC United, but whilst his results were not great, Rooney did improve their points tally, taking them, as one write up described it, up from dreadful to mediocre. Let us not sugar coat it. Had the number of clubs included in the end of season play-offs not been increased to a hugely generous nine out of fifteen clubs, United would have been doomed to accept failure long before they finally did. There was also a feeling that Rooney was taking the job until something better came along, given his family remained in the UK. But it was not a great time for Rooney, dealing as he did with allegations of racism against a star striker, and the instability of the organisational structure above him.
DC had structural issues before Rooney arrived as a player previously, and those same issues remained in his time at coach, with the Sporting Director being changed before he arrived and then whilst he was in post. His departure, by mutual consent, was timed at exactly the same time as new US owners bought Birmingham City. It surprised no-one that Rooney joined the Brady bunch shortly after wheels down at Heathrow.
His time at St Andrews was inauspicious. He arrived to take over the John Eustace built side with an instruction to turn them into a free flowing attacking football team. His failure to do so meant that one day into the transfer window, having provided his owners with a list of the players he needed to complete the assignment, they ended the contract, and finally in his third managerial role Rooney was, for the first time, dismissed.
The timing means that he has also, at the time of writing, never actually bought a player for any of the clubs he has managed.
Finally, there is character. The buying into the One Argyle way. As outlined above, Rooneyâs record is far from unblemished. On the field a fierce competitor, with flashes of red mist which have cost him and his teammates on occasion. Off field, the charitable view is that he has made mistakes.
His interview panel would have known this and no doubt have explored his remorse and likelihood of repeating the errors. Critics of his time at Birmingham have pointed out he threw his players under the bus, although other evidence has shown that at Derby and Birmingham the players enjoyed his training and man management, and according to one former signing at Derby âwould run through a wall for himâ.
Dig a little deeper and the man has depth. It was a young Rooney who, finding that Manchester United determined that additional Premier League medals for the deeper coaching staff were too expensive, personally funded solid silver replicas for them at a cost of ÂŁ5,000 per medal.
He is, despite all his travails and excesses , a family man, and dutifully supported his wife through the Wagatha Christie trial. Collen acknowledges that he is a good father and that if there was not love the relationship would not survive. It has, and he is far from the only footballer or manager to have strayed.
One story that speaks to his affinity with fans should also be music to the Foster out brigade, who railed against the ending of pre match autographs with players at Argyle. Rooney once approached a very shy fan and asked if it would be OK if he could sign his at that point empty autograph book, before also asking if it would be all right if he could have his photo taken with the young fan.
If the reign of Wayne appears against the grain, the judgement of the hiring team is that his advantages outweigh his historic baggage. There are rumours of significant investment that may follow his appointment, something that has long been apparent will be required to move Argyle to the next level they aspire to.
Rooney will also have an opportunity to finally acquire a player of two rather than simply rely on other peopleâs squads or cast offs.
As to the existing squad, whether the arrival of a coach of his stature impacts the decision making of potential leavers remains to be seen. Much has already been made of the early decision he made to sub a young Morgan Whittaker, himself a sub in a Derby match against Stoke after only thirty minutes on the field. Rooney was also in charge when Derby, in dire need of cash, took the Swansea shilling for the young protegee. Only they know if their relationship is broken beyond repair, but how likely do we think our prize assetâs opinion was not sought by the people making this vital choice?
Argyle may not have much recent Wayne experience, but the Duke, as John Wayne was known, started his career in films with appearances in âWest of the Divide â in 1934 and âWestward Hoâ the following year.
âThe Searchersâ (1956) who hired him, doubtless wearing their Argyle âGreen Beretsâ (1968), will be hoping a new success story will be âBorn in the Westâ (1937). If we can go âUndefeatedâ (1969) then perhaps we can all be part of âthe Greatest Story ever Told. â (1965)
There is no doubt that we will get a greater degree of media scrutiny than âlittle old Argyleâ are used to. That many will want us to fail simply because of Rooney being our coach is undoubted, and those who soundbite their analysis, as many have already done on hearing his candidature, will no doubt be vocal if we start with a loss when the season kicks off.
Another famous Rooney, Mickey, who really did make a film called âOut West with the Hardyâsâ once said âYou always pass failure on the way to success.â
Rightly or wrongly, we have our man. Like most Wayne westerns it is going to be a wild ride. Wayneâs most famous line is âcourage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.â He never did say â Get off your horse and drink your milkâ but for all those who might be wondering if they can get behind our new head coach, Iâll leave you with my new favourite Wayne (John) quote.
âJust one more question, Pilgrim. How far up your ass do you want my boot?"
Welcome Wayne.
Your starring role in âHow the West was Funâ awaits
May 26th
Well so much for MY quiet close season break. With the euphoria of final day survival less than three weeks ago, yesterday saw the hugely unexpected puff of green smoke go up at the largely unanticipated venue of an FA Cup final anticipating audience packed into Wembley Stadium.
The announcement, accompanied by whatever is the opposite of a pin drop in social media terms, of the arrival of the new Argyle head coach, Wayne Rooney, was made, not by the traditional triumvirate of Parkinson, Hallett and Dewsnip, but by the altogether more media familiar trio of Lineker, Richards and Shearer.
Lineker himself started the show by announcing he did not expect his first question regarding this seasonâs second consecutive Mancunian derby Cup Final to be about Plymouth Argyle. Wayne hit his marks immediately, appearing both grateful and humble to be joining Argyle, immediately ticking the âdonât call us Plymouthâ box so essential in carrying the Green Army with him.
He then made another strong statement by declining Micah Richards offer of availability for a role, any role, should he have one. Pilgrim Peteâs job is safe in Wayneâs hands it seems. Such was the positive impact of the press coverage on the club since Rooneyâs emergence as a shock candidate for the role, I am half expecting Rishi to attend the Championship play-off final in a green and white scarf to try and leech some of the positive vibes for his stumbling campaign.
Rewind a few weeks, and the post Foster replacement search that only started in earnest after that final day determination of our next seasons starting level, had already been thrown into turmoil by the emergence of a candidate only made possible by the very defeat that his Hull side suffered that day. Liam Rosenior was, having taken his side from 21st to 7th in a season, unceremoniously turfed from his role by Turkish Simon Cowell wanabee Acun Ilicani.
Indeed, as well as Argyle and Sunderland in the new manager stakes, Hull were joined in their quest by, in fairly short order, Norwich after David Wagner was summarily removed following play-off semi-final collapse against Leeds, and Birmingham after caretaker Rowett was joined at the exit door by a recovering Tony Mowbray, who we wish a complete recovery too. Burnley boss Kompany, part of the returning Championship promotion triumvirate of last season, looks set for a remarkable transformation by joining Bayern Munich leaving a seat at the Turf Moor table. Rob Edwards, despite being safe as houses despite a relegation at Luton, could be part of the moving furniture based on the final destination of Ipswich boss McKenna. Sadly, for Ipswich we all know the outcome of Final Destination movies, and they tend not to be good for the innocent bystanders.
They vacancy list could well be swelled by the outcome of todayâs play-off game and of course whatever musical chairs result from the resolution of United, Chelsea and Brightonâs search for a boss.
Rosenior went from not in the running to firm favourite in the Argyle stakes, both for his personality and demeanour, as well as his coaching reputation. Originally forged as number two to, wait for it, Wayne Rooney, at a Derby County hamstrung by the financial shenanigans that meant they suffered 21 points of deductions and an inability to sign players beyond free agents and free loans, he had taken the head coach role from Rooney on his departure. After being sacked by an impatient Derby board following their relegation to League One, when his promotion challenge was derailed by a two nil up to three two defeat at Pride Park to no less than Argyle, his availability after being unemployed after his next defeat at our hands seemed a logical self-preservation decision as much as anything else.
With other past candidates such as Duff, quickly installed at Huddersfield and Bonnar, likewise at Gillingham becoming unavailable, the betting odds were somewhat meagre. The perennial ânameâ of Neil Warnock, the mainstay of lazy odds lists and even lazier thinking was ruled out when he took the pension boosting role of football mentor to newly installed Torquay boss Paul Wotton. Even Parkway found a boss in short order, and potentially forged a link with them up the road.
Names like Will Still, the young Belgian Brit who was leaving Rheims and Anthony Barry, number two at Bayern and Portugal, both of whom had ambitions for a first coaching role in the Championship were rumoured to be in the interview shortlist.
Also, there was Paul Heckinbottom, as along with Rosenior, Argyle scoured the length and breadth of Yorkshire and Humberside for their new leader. Available after his inevitable defenestration at Sheffield United, and their record breaking goal tally in the EPL, but which unfortunately was only the record in the goals against column, at one stage the ever unreliable Alan Nixon declared the job was âhis if he wanted itâ.
Rosenior left the betting, apparently unwilling to relocate, but also perhaps in the ambition to join a more highly regarded club, with Brighton briefly rumoured. Perhaps we will meet him next season. Third times the charm Liam.
Whilst Still, still, had his supporters and the main concern on Barry was that he might not be around for preseason if los Lusos performed at the Euros, various foreign managers known only to the dedicated internet trawlers and Football Manager fraternity came and went.
And then, the bolt from the blues. Wayne was in the frame. If there was a conspiracy theory around his inclusion the reaction was bucolic. Another Dewsnip protégé. Ex Everton. Suspect character. Poor record. They were all there.
Time for this correspondent to address the elephant in the room. OGAAT thrives on personalities like Wazza. In the spirit of pro-green entertainment, the opposition having a manager who arrives and turns a promotion chasing club into a relegation rival despite his heroic status as the second highest international scorer his country has ever produced, is comedy gold. Wagatha Christie. Auld Slapper. You couldnât make it up. Milk itâŠ.damn right I milked it.
Agent Rooney. Did he already know his future laid to the West? Was he secretly ensuring his future employers would start at the level they were desperate to cling onto?
The main concern of the twitterati seemed to be to avoid Argyle becoming a laughingstock. Surely Argyles data driven search was going to throw up a wider candidate profile than a fourth scouser in a row and a third with a deep existential connection to our Director of Football. What about the no KH rule? Do multiple marital transgressions, a drink driving conviction and a past admitted affinity to sex workers not qualify? Does the thrice failed management career qualify him for the role of ensuring a club with the lowest, or at best second lowest, budget in the division can survive, perchance to thrive?
Argyle donât have a long tradition of superstar managers. Shilton was the last, and he was regarded as the figurehead whilst McGovern did the hard yards in training and tactics. Not famed for his oratory, he apparently tried to inspire his side when losing with the story of the Pheasant from the flames. When a player had the temerity to suggest that rather than a pheasant, Shilton might have meant a phoenix, Shilton shrugged him off with a simple, âwell I knew it began with an F.â
They also donât have a tradition of Waynes. There was Wayne Burnett, a silky midfielder, who had a chequered past having been a party to Arsenals David Hilliers theft of a Danish businessmanâs briefcase at an airport, which led to Hillier being convicted and fined. Burnett is now the Spurs U23 manager so someone we have regular contact with after Phillips and Devine came on loan and who may return
Wayne OâSullivan was the only other. Here briefly and in the darker lower league days before heading down under.
Today we only have Ben Waine, and thatâs not even the right spelling. Although if you are a young striker I would imagine Wayne Rooney might be someone you would like to spend a bit of training ground time with.
So how did we alight on Wayne. Did our three wise men dust off their list of criteria and go down the pile of applicants like a Panini sticker wants list, got, got, need?
Young? Well yes, younger than Foster. In fact, younger than Schumacher.
Experienced at this level? As a player not really. Wayne started at the top and stayed there until arriving at Derby as player/coach. As a manager his first gig was Derby County where he operated under the madcap reign of owner Mel Morris, who managed to blow two hundred million pounds as he took Derby to the third tier of English football, from which they have just returned. In his time there Rooney managed his side to mid table and then almost overcame a twenty-one point EFL points deduction handicap to escape relegation in his second season, and that with only a handful of contracted players, operated with both hands tied behind his back to build a side that only just slipped under. He was replaced by his assistant Liam Rosenior, who as we have seen lasted until an October home defeat to the eventual League Champions that season saw him depart as well.
Anecdotal evidence says Rooney was a good man manager and motivator. And he took a cash strapped side to an effective solid mid table position before the points penalties bit. Another plus? One side that suffered relegation as a result were our old friends Why-come.
Also, it was he who stepped away as the club sought to change ownership. With administration in effect, Rooney resigned, and despite the efforts of the administrators to keep him, said the club needed fresh energy.
Overseas Coaching? Well, given the success of relegation rivals last season QPR and Wednesday with taking on board coaches from other leagues (and overlooking, because it doesnât suit the argument, the failure of overseas coaches at Huddersfield and Wednesday before Rohls arrival), Rooney gets a tick there also.
OK, it was the MLS in America, and at his former club DC United, but whilst his results were not great, Rooney did improve their points tally, taking them, as one write up described it, up from dreadful to mediocre. Let us not sugar coat it. Had the number of clubs included in the end of season play-offs not been increased to a hugely generous nine out of fifteen clubs, United would have been doomed to accept failure long before they finally did. There was also a feeling that Rooney was taking the job until something better came along, given his family remained in the UK. But it was not a great time for Rooney, dealing as he did with allegations of racism against a star striker, and the instability of the organisational structure above him.
DC had structural issues before Rooney arrived as a player previously, and those same issues remained in his time at coach, with the Sporting Director being changed before he arrived and then whilst he was in post. His departure, by mutual consent, was timed at exactly the same time as new US owners bought Birmingham City. It surprised no-one that Rooney joined the Brady bunch shortly after wheels down at Heathrow.
His time at St Andrews was inauspicious. He arrived to take over the John Eustace built side with an instruction to turn them into a free flowing attacking football team. His failure to do so meant that one day into the transfer window, having provided his owners with a list of the players he needed to complete the assignment, they ended the contract, and finally in his third managerial role Rooney was, for the first time, dismissed.
The timing means that he has also, at the time of writing, never actually bought a player for any of the clubs he has managed.
Finally, there is character. The buying into the One Argyle way. As outlined above, Rooneyâs record is far from unblemished. On the field a fierce competitor, with flashes of red mist which have cost him and his teammates on occasion. Off field, the charitable view is that he has made mistakes.
His interview panel would have known this and no doubt have explored his remorse and likelihood of repeating the errors. Critics of his time at Birmingham have pointed out he threw his players under the bus, although other evidence has shown that at Derby and Birmingham the players enjoyed his training and man management, and according to one former signing at Derby âwould run through a wall for himâ.
Dig a little deeper and the man has depth. It was a young Rooney who, finding that Manchester United determined that additional Premier League medals for the deeper coaching staff were too expensive, personally funded solid silver replicas for them at a cost of ÂŁ5,000 per medal.
He is, despite all his travails and excesses , a family man, and dutifully supported his wife through the Wagatha Christie trial. Collen acknowledges that he is a good father and that if there was not love the relationship would not survive. It has, and he is far from the only footballer or manager to have strayed.
One story that speaks to his affinity with fans should also be music to the Foster out brigade, who railed against the ending of pre match autographs with players at Argyle. Rooney once approached a very shy fan and asked if it would be OK if he could sign his at that point empty autograph book, before also asking if it would be all right if he could have his photo taken with the young fan.
If the reign of Wayne appears against the grain, the judgement of the hiring team is that his advantages outweigh his historic baggage. There are rumours of significant investment that may follow his appointment, something that has long been apparent will be required to move Argyle to the next level they aspire to.
Rooney will also have an opportunity to finally acquire a player of two rather than simply rely on other peopleâs squads or cast offs.
As to the existing squad, whether the arrival of a coach of his stature impacts the decision making of potential leavers remains to be seen. Much has already been made of the early decision he made to sub a young Morgan Whittaker, himself a sub in a Derby match against Stoke after only thirty minutes on the field. Rooney was also in charge when Derby, in dire need of cash, took the Swansea shilling for the young protegee. Only they know if their relationship is broken beyond repair, but how likely do we think our prize assetâs opinion was not sought by the people making this vital choice?
Argyle may not have much recent Wayne experience, but the Duke, as John Wayne was known, started his career in films with appearances in âWest of the Divide â in 1934 and âWestward Hoâ the following year.
âThe Searchersâ (1956) who hired him, doubtless wearing their Argyle âGreen Beretsâ (1968), will be hoping a new success story will be âBorn in the Westâ (1937). If we can go âUndefeatedâ (1969) then perhaps we can all be part of âthe Greatest Story ever Told. â (1965)
There is no doubt that we will get a greater degree of media scrutiny than âlittle old Argyleâ are used to. That many will want us to fail simply because of Rooney being our coach is undoubted, and those who soundbite their analysis, as many have already done on hearing his candidature, will no doubt be vocal if we start with a loss when the season kicks off.
Another famous Rooney, Mickey, who really did make a film called âOut West with the Hardyâsâ once said âYou always pass failure on the way to success.â
Rightly or wrongly, we have our man. Like most Wayne westerns it is going to be a wild ride. Wayneâs most famous line is âcourage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.â He never did say â Get off your horse and drink your milkâ but for all those who might be wondering if they can get behind our new head coach, Iâll leave you with my new favourite Wayne (John) quote.
âJust one more question, Pilgrim. How far up your ass do you want my boot?"
Welcome Wayne.
Your starring role in âHow the West was Funâ awaits
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