Good post mate.
I think what's needed and what might change are two very different things. There absolutely has to be a change in culture in the organisation and that needs to start at the top and permeate down. Its going to be interesting, a lot of the staff at the club are used to operating in a certain environment and in certain limits with a certain skill set, whether some can adapt or not is interesting. If we take an example of say when Bill was chairman we were run so strigently and had built a club on value - to some reasonable success - that when resource came to the club the skills just weren't there to operate with different resources in different markets and build at a different level and we made an utter mess of it. I think we need to learn those lessons.
Personally i think we will see change at the top to begin with, they will want to do things incrementally i would think over a two year period, too much change can be damaging.
On Dyche i think the opportunity cant be past up to look at it, you need the best candidate always and with the changing land scape, contract situation and opportunity to put a plan in place - you have to look at it. Be a bad organsation that doesn't. I still think he has qualities that will be valued by an owner - namely their bottom line. We as fans just look at one game to the next - the owner looks at it as - hes here 18 months, hes kept us up twice in two very adverse manure shows thats worth 240 mill to me. Or hes brought a kid into the team played him consistently, hes now worth £100 mill to me. He brought that Ndaiye lad in for 14 mill, hes now worth 30 mill to me. I appreciate the job Dyche has done here and will always be grateful to him, im open minded though given whats happening at the club. I dont think change is the slam dunk most people do though.
FFP will be a fine balancing act, the sheer volume of players out of contract creates both opportunity and risk, if Keane, Dom and the Duke leave thats almost 300k a week in wagers freed up. Yet changing 13 players in one window is always a bad idea. While we likely still be operating in margins and cutting cloth. Some balance and compromise is going to have to be found on change and continuity.
One of the things on my mind at the moment is culture on the first team squad - i remember working very hard somewhere bashing my head of a wall trying to change a culture in an orgainsation in short space of time - a bad culture is endemic it gets everywhere management, teams, individuals. A colleague sat me down one day and told me it takes 10 years to really change a culture in an organsiation - they were right. It will take time here, to much change to quickly doesn't help. Most people dont know or dont want to accept they are part of a bad culture.
Its why im in two minds on next steps, particularly on the issue of a coach or a football manager. I think this group of players have always needed a football manager, i don't think you can give them inch and until that collapse culture is kicked out, im not sure we have that flexibility to go without a manager type.
