They said.....

Caller: "I wonder if there needed to be a difference in the club with the actual infrastructure and that the club, perhaps wasn't able to meet that need."
McNally: "I think that's an interesting observation. You may have seen the recent announcement that the chairman made at the end of season dinner that we are reviewing the management structure. The football manager, of course, remains the most important person connected with football. We're setting up a football management board , chaired by the Chief Exec. On that board would be the chief exec, the football manager, the director of recruitment and a technical director. Now for us a technical director means somebody to support the manager so that the manager can concentrate on the first team and the management of the first team. Sports science, sports analysis, medicine, nutrition, hydration, rest and relaxation, conditioning, the management of injuries, the training ground, operations, infrastructure, everything else that will now be the domain of the technical director so the football manager won't have to call me at 11 on a Thursday evening to talk about a youth loan move from our club to some Conference side which is worth about ?500 a week to us. That will be the domain of the technical director."
Conrad: "And is that different from a Director of Football?"
McNally: "For us, yes. Ultimately, we want our first team manager, who is in a key position, to be involved in the ins and outs with players and he has to be responsible but there will be a sense check on that board so all the key decisions will be debated such as choosing two captains for a season may be debated by a technical board and an experienced technical board may then persuade a manager that may not be in the best interests of the football club."

Or in other words, you have to get any football decision agreed by this board, if it runs as presented.

That then gets contradicted by Wynn-Jones later on where he says the manager will be allowed to manage.

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Posted By: Johnny Comecardiff, Jan 8, 10:06:24