I agree, seeing it with your own eyes is most important, but then we could all see it in a different perspective anyway! Seen over 500 games, now I live to far away but my son goes to most games home and away and I see the full game online.
Compared to the brains here, Jimmy is an artist, he'll see football in another perspective. The people who have taught him his profession, his mentors and the contacts he will have are simply too important to ignore and on a different level. He will see the game faster than any of our team and he's probably pushing too much into their smaller football brains.
The major question, as with all good tutors, is can he relay that information and inspire? The jury's obviously out, but he's smart enough and with experience he'll make it somewhere.
Time to be bloody patient for once you grumpy fuckers. Would you want Steve Evans?
I am actually not sure if you are on a wind up here with your JFH worshiping - yes you might just have a point re his football brain over posters on this board but the comment re our team is both disrespectful & ignorant - just because someone has been a top premiership player does not confer on them greatness in either footballing brains or indeed ability in coaching - in fact looking at the most successful coaches overall - a very significant majority were decidedly average players.