- May 8, 2005
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I'm sure the crit aimed back at me is fair, and I'm willing to take that on the chin.Everyone could do with dialling things down occasionally (including me) but since we are here you could also take your own advice. As someone you have been interacting with I wouldn’t say I am ‘tightly wound’ or even anti-Levy - I’m old enough to remember a bad levy season was a good season in the 90s so know it can be a lot worse. But that didn’t stop you from telling me I shouldn’t believe Ange’s own statements about wanting a CB plus the ITK about him being unhappy as that’s feeding my own bias.
Personally, I just call things as I see them on individual issues, and I think Levy has always been bad at managing outs and has always tended to do the minimum required to be top 4 competitive on the ins. To give credit where it’s due our recruitment in terms of player quality over the last couple of years has been excellent. Let’s hope the kids aren’t needed and/or are great if required as there is nothing more fun in football than seeing a youngster come through and perform
I'm not telling you to not believe Ange saying he wants or wanted another cb, I believe him, we clearly want and need one! I'm just not one to take the ITK at face value. I appreciate what they say, I'm just conscious that we (I have no greater insight into their sources as an Admin here), don't know where exactly the comments come from. They are passing through at least one person before we read them, and a person's own biases or whatever are going to find their way in to what's being passed on as well. I just will always encourage taking a huge pinch of salt with anything that comes from ITKs, in the same way I would with what we read in the media too.
I'm on the same page as everyone else in regard to us being left a bit short, can't argue that isn't true, and cannot argue that it would have been better to have an extra centre back. But I personally, won't be drawing hard and fast conclusions on the behaviour of Levy, his relationships with staff, and Ange's personal opinion about things from ITK posts.