I apologize for misunderstanding your original post about Beardsley + Newcastle fans = greater than the sum of their parts. I realize now reading following posts what you meant by that - although I still believe you're overrating the value of manager-fan chemistry on medium- and long-term performance.NickKIELCEPOland wrote:You have misunderstood due to not reading carefully enough. I haven't said that any fans are better than others. I've said that there is a chemistry between certain clubs' fans and certain potential managers, and that that chemistry improves managerial performance in my opinion.I'm over Colo wrote: And Keegan had proven himself as a manager, which would have played no small part in people being delighted about him returning. Beardsley has had 20 years to impress as a coach and demonstrate he's got the qualities to manage at a higher level, and yet hasn't. You overstated the impact of the crowd on Beardsley's career (plenty of clubs have amazing crowds, and I don't like any club, including ours trying to play it off like we have some divine fanbase), and you're overstating the benefit of making a managerial hiring pandering to the fans' nostalgia for past players - and frankly insulting the intelligence of our fans that they would magically welcome Beardsley as manager because of his on-field accomplishments so long ago.
Nonetheless, sorry I went on a rant about people bigging up their fanbase and the impact on players, because you weren't meaning that, I just get annoyed by that, no matter whose fans say it.