Statement on Everton managerial change
On Sunday 31st May at 9:55pm BST, Dom Gill (Frank Castle) added myself and The Stain to a private conversation informing us of his decision to leave Everton. In the message he also said he wasn't going to leave the league and as The Stain picked him in the first place, he wanted Stain's involvement in picking the successor.
Here is the announcement of The Stain leaving Everton last year, moving to Leyton Orient and picking Dom Gill as his successor without any furore. You can also see Dom picking his successor at Barnsley in the link. Both managers have been in the game world for five years now and were to stay in the league under new clubs. Likewise in 2016, when RedSky left Nottingham Forest,
he picked The Taurean to be his successor without any vote. The precedent had been set with no issues at all at that point. Together, Dom and The Stain agreed that Mciahel Goodman was the best choice for Everton and wanted him to be the new manager.
Mciahel Goodman has been in the league for a number of years, and under aforesaid precedent could also have picked his successor at Darlington if he wished, but having not mentioned anything of the sort seems to be fine with it going to the old fashioned private vote by managers within the league. Most of the time when managers leave, they leave for good due to activity or whatever so things go to a private vote for new managers if there is enough interest. When managers leave of their own accord being active at the time, no matter who they are we have allowed them to pick their successor if they wish so it was felt that this didn't need to be explained in advance again as most of the managers in the league now, were in the league when other managers had picked their successor.
The reaction is understandable but regrettable. In short, the process for selecting new managers for team vacancies has been:
- If manager is leaving league completely due to inactivity or whatever and doesn't pick a successor, the team goes to a semi-public vote among all other managers in the league (i.e. they can see who voted who, but the applicants involved can't see).
- If manager is leaving their own team for another team in the league or is leaving of their own accord, they can choose their own successor if they wish ("Fergie rule")
- If nobody is interested, team goes to a draft.
As most vacancies fall under point one, the second point hasn't been invoked that often, but when it had (going all the way back to 2016), there were no issues. If those within the league have changed their mind and want the "Fergie rule" to be revoked completely, we can do that. This is all I have to say on the matter.