Deano's debut
Inspired choice or a final throw of the dice from a chairman desperate to make it third time lucky?
It's too early yet to pass any sort of judgement on new Wrexham boss Dean Saunders, but my initial thoughts are that club owner Geoff Moss let his heart rule his head by bringing in the untried former Wales international without even considering any of the other applications he told us he had received.
Don't get me wrong, Saunders has plenty of coaching experience and is as highly qualified as they come. And he has said and done all the right things in the first few days to enthuse not only his players, but the fans as well.
There is absolutely no doubt that Saunders is desperately keen to do well in his first stab at management and no-one would be happier than me to see him take the Dragons by the scruff of the neck and transform them into a side capable of mounting a promotion challenge this season.
But Rome, as they say, was not built in a day and unless there is a significant turnover of players between now and the end of the January transfer window, even Sir Alex Ferguson would be hard-pressed to rebuild a team in the space of a few months.
For Saunders, whose background has been the Premier League and international football with Wales, frustration will never be far away as he bids to drum some sound habits into footballers who are currently playing at the level they deserve.
Frustration's ally is disillusionment and one wonders whether Saunders would be prepared for any length of time to put up with the sort of abuse heaped by angry supporters on his predecessors Brian Little and Brian Carey when things were not going to plan on the pitch.
On the other hand, the evidence thus far is that few if any of Wrexham's Blue Square Premier rivals are showing the consistency of performance necessary to establish themselves as genuine promotion contenders.
The Dragons defied the odds and the weather to give the new boss a winning start at Forest Green Rovers and, although talk of back to back wins is a touchy subject down at Colliers Park, tomorrow's visit to the Racecourse of York City, followed by another home match with Histon on Saturday, represent a superb opportunity for Saunders and his players to build up a little head of steam.
A previous Racecourse boss Brian Flynn used to say: "Confidence is gained by the inch, but it can be lost by the yard," so two decent performances in the coming week could be just the catalyst that Saunders needs to make his players believe in themselves, to say nothing of making his job just a little bit easier.
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