Amidst the joy and the rapture at the long-awaited departure of Liam "they know nothing about football" Murphy from his post as "manager" of City, I think there may be something more important happening. Murphy has stepped aside and taken up a role as "technical director" while the club has been advertising in the papers for a General Manager. Is this the stride towards professionalism and competing with the dub clubs that we have long called for and Lennox has been hinting at? How many other eL clubs have either technical directors or general managers, never mind both? Are we witnessing a a sea-change in cork football which will put to an end our unenviable record of always finishing second, third (or sometimes fourth-thanks gunther), that means we will really be able to compete. Does this mean that the largest county and second largest City in Ireland will at last have the team it deserves?
My natural cynicism makes me suspicious: we had a full-time manager in Mountfield, we had a commercial manager in Cantillon and it didn´t work. Is Brian Lennox the man who will make it work? Is he prepared to stick at it, and not just revert to the statues quo (give the job to a long serving player) the minute things get sticky? I think he is that man, I hope he is that man. He´s been in the job less than a year, he said it would take time to see results- I think he´s about to deliver and it can only be a good thing.
COME ON CITY :D
