I had seen the news early yesterday and like many of you was intrigued.
Bradburn was in a very senior role, Head of Performance, the capo dei capi in the coaching field in that country. Undoubtedly a senior, very highly paid position.
Could he, or would he resign that post to come to Derbyshire? Or is the timing coincidental and he has been offered a position elsewhere?
As I wrote several weeks ago, and have done since, he would be my choice of Head of Cricket. Yet we don't know he has applied, nor that he is in line to be interviewed.
One would assume that the latter would be a formality, if he did the former and also that he would by far be the best qualified candidate.
Yet we must not get ahead of ourselves. I understand that we have still to interview some candidates anyway, so even if he was interviewed, an announcement may not be imminent.
I have been part of a number of interview processes where the successful or preferred candidate was known in advance, but the process had to be followed and those interviews completed.
IF (note the capital letters) Bradburn applied for the job and IF ( note them again..) he was interviewed, then the likelihood is he will be new Head of Cricket. He is intelligent, articulate, supremely qualified and perfect for the job.
But we don't know if he has.
While his potential appointment would be as exciting for me as anyone, I will keep my powder dry until there is an announcement.
But what an announcement it would be..
Whoever gets the job it would nice if the club was to provide more content on both its own cricket site and YouTube ie both pre and post match interviews with both players and the DOC
ReplyDeleteif Grant Bradburn was to get the job and you were to be interviewed for the same DOC role after he tended his notice , you might conclude that you had been wasting your time at the interview.
ReplyDeleteGood Luck with the Operation.
Martin H
Thanks Martin.
DeletePoint of clarification.. I understand that some candidates from stage 1 of the process have now progressed to a second stage. If we assume there may have been a short list of six, then two, perhaps three will likely progress to that second stage.