Alan McCormack MH replacement.

Of course he spoke to Martin Ling first. The administration of Recruitment is Ling’s job. If Ritchie speaks to someone before Ling does, then Ritchie is doing Ling’s job for him. The article on the orient website also quotes Ritchie saying he spoke to him too. The guy played 10 games for us 20 years ago, hardly a ‘jobs for the boys’ situation.

His prior experience sounds fine, better than Matt Harrold had when he joined as coach. He’s going to be 3rd in charge at best, I doubt we’d be getting in anyone with a ‘wow’ CV for that position. Of course we don’t know how it’ll turn out, but let’s not look for problems where there are no indications there are any.