They could have appointed someone with more of a reputation to try and get a bit of a buzz and get fans back, and I suspected for a while that was exactly what they were gonna do. If you're gonna run a football club you sometimes have to make unpopular decisions though; I know Notts County fans had the opposite criticism of their former owner, that he always wanted to make crowdpleasing appointments such as Harry Kewell that backfired badly.
Hopefully they've done the right thing and chosen the manager on merit. Even though they've made very poor decisions for some years now, would be wrong to immediately assume Beech is another of those. If we put in some improved performances and start picking up points then most fans will quickly change their tune about this being a poor appointment; just in the same way that, had we appointed someone like Bridges that got people excited that buzz would quickly fade if results didn't improve.
Beech will probably get less leeway than a more well-known manager might have gotten, I just hope that if things do start to improve that the fans start to get behind him as I know there are always some United fans who, once they decide they don't like a manager then that's that. Some people couldn't stand Keith Curle and said they wouldn't return until he left, even when we were qualifying for the playoffs.
If we had strong leadership and a clear vision of how the club was going to achieve it's goals I could agree with your trail of thought here. Making a decision because it is the right move and he's the right man for the job, despite the usual clamour for a name we've heard of.
That is not what has happened here.
