Can we yet rule out a ‘Starsky and Hutch’ U Turn or a Bobby Ewing in the shower moment, which sees Adam back in the Woodside dugout before Christ is Risen on Easter Sunday?
NL insiders did tell me that the York City Chairman/Owner wasn’t necessarily playing with a full deck.
Overnight he’s now offering to pay back the York’s travelling supporters ticket money for last nights 6-1 defeat at Altrincham, apparently stating the performance was ‘unacceptable’, which in itself sows the seeds of discontent in the House of York.
Dave Bassett lasted 3 days at Palace in 1984, Millwall sacked Steve Claridge in pre season, marry in haste, repent at leisure.
Go on Barry, get on the blower pay the man his compensation back and get Adam home now! 🙏
Given careful consideration, I've been following their car crash closely, its a firm no from me.
Could his sudden availability happen? Absolutely. Their Chairman, a social media obsessed millionaire's son, has no patience and no footballing nous. If he had any he'd have seen this coming, he brought a builder to a house fire and expected instant home improvements. Having made that mistake he's perfectly capable of compounding it by sacking this very good builder before he's even had a chance to lay a single square metre of foundation.
Should he come straight back in as if nothing happened? No, and here's the fivefold reason why...
1)
Burnt (or at the very least heavily singed) bridges.
I know I'm not the only one who felt WFC were more than a little snubbed by his departure. The timing of the move was crazy, for the reasons above, but I do get why he wanted a challenge elsewhere. But that's just it, he didn't want to finish the great season we were having here... he wanted to go somewhere else. So that HAS to be a factor when considering a return.
Put it in relationship terms. It's like your wife having her head turned by a millionaire living just five doors up the road (
league placing). The facilities are excellent in his mansion, he can keep her in a manner she was never accustomed to with you. Objectively you can see what's in it for her... but it's still a betrayal. Why WOULD you want her back when he kicks her out a few weeks later?
Flip the genders round and this (
for now hypothetical) scenario calls to mind this situation...
Love Actually -
YouTube"
Knowing life would always be a little bit worse"...?
2)
His head isn't right.
The situation will inevitably have come at a cost to his wellbeing. Just look at his post match interview last night, its painful to watch...
Hinsh post Altrincham -
YouTubeNow he was never a charismatic interviewee at the best of times but that's the face of a haunted man, that's a defeated and lost individual. If/when it ends up there he will need time to heal and I really hope he gets it, I genuinely feel sorry for him.
This wouldn't be the same confident man who left us. Is the wounded individual scarred by traumatic events
really the right person to come in and re-energise our stuttering relegation form, or inspire a re-group for this season or next season? How do you inspire confidence in others when your confidence has taken such a battering as that?
It may only be a couple of weeks but right now he's now not right for us. And, far more importantly than that is his wellbeing, we wouldn't be right for him either. He'll have wounds to lick, confidence to rebuild. He wouldn't have money worries so could afford the luxury of time with his family to regroup, re-energise and look around for a new project,
the right project this time, that is more important. His standing in the game isn't wiped out by a few weeks of craziness up there... insiders will know exactly what a shambles York is in the boardroom and exactly how much of an impossible task he was given. He needs to choose somewhere that'll give him the time to build again, not throw him under the bus like Matt Uggla has.
3)
He's a builder, we're 'built'.Of course it could be argued that place is here, we'd give him infinite time. But he'd then get pigeonholed as 'that Worthing guy', forever questioned about his ability to perform anywhere but here. Project Hinsh has been going on/off for nearly ten years, we give him another three year contract that'll be on/off nearly thirteen years. What more is there he can bring to what is already here? Which leads onto...
4)
Motivation.
That'd have to be called into question too. He'd be set up financially for the foreseeable, our deal would be a huge drop in wages. The love and fawning adoration might be down but he'd certainly be respected and comfortable again but we have a very firm glass ceiling and we're pretty much at it. Where's the drive going to come from? You need to have a challenge, you need to have a reason to go to work, an ambition to achieve. We'd be a comfortable pair of slippers to slip back into, not work boots.
5)
The opportunitySome genuine good can come from this situation. No-one has cast a fresh pair of eyes over Worthing FC in a decade. We've done fantastically well in that time and because of that Worthing 2024 brings into play managers who would
never have considered even looking at Worthing 2013. In all other aspects of the club we are forward looking, matchday experience, ground development, a televised game, a documentary... why look backwards on the pitch when an opportunity has arisen to identify and find a skilled practitioner in taking the next step, into the National League.
I know I've gone on at great length here but I feel its important to carefully explain the counter argument to what some might say is a 'no brainer'. It's not a reactionary gut feeling, its a considered and evidenced response. Its only one opinion and all opinions are valid, but speaking to Worthing fans away from this board there are literally none I've found who weren't put out to some degree by his departure and who'd welcome him back 'no questions asked'. He isn't a god so it isn't heresy to ask those perfectly fair questions while there's a chance it could happen.
I'll have to go back and find who said it so it can be correctly attributed but that phrase is spot on 'Next Gen. Worthing'
*, never go back.
*Edit:... It was Bally.