Cards on the table (ii)

Hmm, so Carden won't be going anywhere for a while after signing a new three-year contract.

Certainly it's happy days on the playing front because Carden is great. And you would assume an announcement about the new manager isn't far off, because it would be crazy to give a long-term contract to an assistant manager without the new man agreeing it.

Has it been done for the right reasons though? It's been said several times that Carden was the mediator between Brabin and Chairman George/The Board, which suggests that either Cards likes the directors, or that he is at least more diplomatic than your average footballer. I just hope we've been so desparate to keep him involved because he really is a "true professional" who will "go on to become a great manager one day", and not just because he gets on alright with the chairman.

Cards has been superb for us over the last season and a half, so I have no reason to doubt him really, but as I said in my previous post, I can't help but think it might have been better to have a clean break from the previous regime rather than this half-and-half solution. Hopefully he and the new manager will prove me wrong in the coming months.