Some clubs just should not be in the professional ranks, let alone in existence. To term the way Chippa United is being run amateurish would be an insult to the clubs campaigning in the unpaid ranks.
The latest debacle at the Chilli Boys that has seen yet another change in the technical team with Mich D’Avray stripped of the caretaker coach role he was supposed to hold until the end of the season tells the story of a club that is nothing more than a rudderless ship.
I played amateur football in my younger days and my club was run way better than the Chilli Boys are, albeit it ours was administered from the boot of a taxi.
I remember how we used to be the township’s whipping boys during our formative stages. Defeats as humiliating as 5-0 were common as we looked to gel into a unit. But in all those losses, not once did the club owner look for a new coach, as he and a couple of other fathers preserved to lead the team.
In the end we grew into a very competitive team that contested the provincial finals on a number of occasions and some of our teammates even attracted the attention of professional sides such as Orlando Pirates.
Someone should tell Chippa Mpengesi that chopping and changing coaches at the rate he is, is not going to see the Chilli Boys become giants of the game.
Why Mpengesi decided that D’Avray was no longer good enough to lead his side despite his getting four points from a possible nine just goes to confirm the man is clueless as to what coaching is all about.
Yet, perhaps, the best thing would be for the club to get relegated once again so that he goes down to the tough National First Division (NFD) where he will perhaps be taught the folly of his trigger-happy ways.
Consistency in the technical team is the cornerstone of many a successful teams, with Kaizer Chiefs’ record-points victory in this season’s championship race set on the back of Stuart Baxter’s knowledge of a team he has been in charge of for three seasons.
Few coaches can ever make a success of a club in a few matches, let alone a single season.
Coaches need time to build something solid, time to understand the players as individuals before gelling them into a cohesive unit that will put their individual abilities and unique skills to the benefit of the team.
Time Mr Mpengesi, not three matches.
And surely you would know this from your other businesses. Unless all you are is the typical South African tenderpreneur! - The Star