No, you never just appoint the internal candidate

You've got to run a farce of an external recruitment campaign to benchmark them against and to justify to the boss (or in this case, the fans) why the cheap internal option is better than the expensive externals.

They'll shortlist a number of credible but less than ideal candidates, and identify Phelan as the best in class again.

There's no way that he came here to work under Adams without having been given the nod about the managerial role.

Posted By: CWC, Jan 5, 18:31:29