Patience is the name of the game for Jason Stockwood and his Grimsby Town recruitment committee as they deliberate over who should be the next manager of the club.
The rumour mill is in full swing, but the club are keeping things close to their chest in order not to jeopardise any potential appointment. And while fans will be keen to see a new appointment soon, the club are thinking long term.
“We just want to make sure that we’re taking our time on this,” Stockwood told BBC Radio Humberside. “As owners, we’re trying to think long term and what is right for the football club with the strategies that we are devising.
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“We want this to be a long-term decision ideally, but you never know until you make the appointment and then life takes over, but we want to take our time to make sure that we get this right. [The appointment] won’t be soon, it will be a few weeks at a minimum because we want to do this well rather than quickly.”
Stockwood outlined some of the qualities Grimsby Town would be looking for in the new manager and said the club’s data-led approach was a factor in the ”conversations” they were having with candidates. He added: “We want to be an attractive, high-press football team and we want to be evidence-based in terms of what we do, which is what we’ve tried to bring into our conversations.
“When we talk about data . . . we’re trying to bring evidence into our conversations, so the art of football can be made easier for the people who have the experience. We want to have someone that can develop young players and is connected with our academy model and someone that is thinking about the community element of the club – playing modern football.”
The Town chairman is confident that the club can attract their ideal choice, partly because of the reputation they have been building over the past few years, coupled with a proud history. Stockwood explained: “I think we have high regard as a football club from others and I think people are starting to see what we’re about, the club we have been historically and the club we’ve tried to be over the last couple of years.
“People can see our values and what is important to us and this process is a good test of that because it is more important that you show your character when things aren’t going well. We’ve represented ourselves well in recent years and I think that is shown by the quality of the applicants we’re getting.”
Original story at https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/
