Re: Welcome Jordan Berry - New Manager
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A slightly eyebrow-raising appointment.
Nothing wrong with it from Borough's viewpoint, but a vaguely strange choice of career path from Mr. Berry himself.
He joins a relatively stable club, but undeniably one in slow decline and which has little chance of making significant progress in the foreseeable future.
Almost all of London's traditionally big (ish) non-league clubs are in slow decline, as are many former giants in other large metropolitan areas.
Egham have just narrowly failed to win promotion: finishing as runners-up in their Combined Counties division but losing out on points-per-game to a club in the other section, then losing to plummeting Merstham in an inter-division play-off.
It must be very frustrating for a manager to build a squad of promotion calibre, on a reasonable budget, in a "one up" league, then find another club in the division has turned into Moneybags FC and is highly likely to romp the league - as Ascot seem to have done in Egham's division this season.
However, I would have thought Egham would be more of a shop window for a young manager like Mr. Berry to advertise himself - perhaps to the sugar daddy at the next commuter belt Moneybags FC - than Harrow. Perhaps there were unsettling budget rumours at Egham. Perhaps someone else in their division has already come into money and is set to cruise to the title in 23/24.
He's joining a club that doesn't yet know which division it will be playing in.
It always concerns me when an incoming manager does that.
I doubt Southend United will be the only club with nasty rumblings coming from the foundations in the next month, so a Step 3 reprieve for Borough remains possible.
Anyway, good luck to Mr. Berry.
Edited by Not A Mong at 12:19:56 on 6th May 2023
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