I was at the Coley press conference this morning (and responsible for some of the crapper questions
) and this is going to sound really daft, but I thought that he was really upbeat and optimistic.
I don't know where you heard the audio (presumably that station that covers Stanley from time to time and isn't 2 boroughs
) or how much of it you heard (from memory there was nearly 20 minutes) but having been there and seen Coley's body language as well as heard all of his comments, I came away feeling a little more optimistic.
He did talk about the absence of luck and falling victim to poor decisions, but he also said that he was probably "the biggest moaner in the world" at this moment, and that whatever team he picked couldn't keep hiding behind bad luck, poor decisions etc etc. The general message was that the luck WOULD change, and if necessary loads of hard work would be done to MAKE it change.
The youth team issue was brought up in a discussion about the transfer window. He simply made the point that because the "emergency" window is closed, another batch of injuries would mean that they would have to look for players from within, Andy Smith being on the bench on Tuesday being the perfect example of that. As far as I remember (I listened to it about a dozen times at work!!!!) he didn't say that he planned on using youth team players, just that he would if that was the only option.
Everybody knows that this is a really, really bad time for the club, including me, you and the management team. But Coley said he still thinks he has the best job in the world and as relishing the challenge of getting back to form.
Once the mics had stopped recording, he was jovial and cheerful. Didn't strike me as a man who planned on throwing in the towel just yet
Anyway, obviously I CAN'T speak for John Coleman, but I can give my observations of how he SEEMED this morning. And sorry I've bored you to tears with all this, but I SHOULD be writing a very dull politics essay and instead strayed here... Here's to displacement activity!!