During the last week we had the official season launch, and announced a new captain.

The launch was really well organised and run, and was marred by one bizarre outburst against the media in a speech, which, despite claims to the contrary from the outburstee, has quite hurt us. The day before that, we got maneuvered (despite my best efforts) into giving an exclusive to the paper, thus very effectively putting the TVs offside.

I went VERY close to quitting, on the basis that I really didn’t want my name associated with this trainwreck.

I’m still here though, and have kicked up a fair old stink, and now have been given the task of putting together a media policy. the basics of it (as agreed at today’s media meeting) is that the only spokesmen are the MD and the coach, and they are to keep me closely informed as to who and what they’ve said to whom.

I can’t say I’m overly confident, but we’ll see. Last week was such a disaster that maybe it will work, if only for a while.