What is with FC Hout Bay and their affinity for hiring and firing coaches?
If there’s one thing that needs to be shown by now in this ruthless Hollywoodbets Third Division campaign, then it’s patience… but no, not at the coastal club where coaches just don’t last long – for whatever reason.
Reminds one of the trigger-happy owner of Chippa United, Chippa Mpengesi, who hired and fired coaches left, right and centre – much to the detriment of his team.
And what FC Hout Bay is inadvertently displaying – or not – is that they are following suit.
The club has appointed no less than five coaches in three seasons or so which indicates that perhaps there are challenges within the club itself and not necessarily on the field.
One would have expected that FC Hout Bay would have realised by now that they will never find their ‘perfect’ coach.
Needless to say, the coastal side indeed had the best of local coaches in the former Bafana Bafana player Bradley August, along with Goodwin Lewis, as well as the former Hellenic pro player Peter Kirstin. Not to mention recent successors such as Tom Tobi and Pierre Summers in recent years.
Summers surprisingly vacated his post after just four weeks in charge.
The Ashford Athletic man lifted the lid on why he parted ways with the club after a month following Tobi’s departure.
Summers highlighted ”personal” reasons rather than footballing differences as to why he decided to part ways and go back to his beloved Ashford Athletic, albeit at LFA level.
“It is all of a private nature and has nothing to do with the club. It had nothing to do with the task at hand. For now, yes, it is back to my (Ashford) club, in which capacity it has not been confirmed,” Summers stated to No Bones with Jones.
Meanwhile, the former Ubuntu Academy and Cape Town City player Duncan Adonis and one of the executive members, a person named Kim, will be overseeing the team.
Summers reiterated he is confident that the second-last-placed side has enough talent to avoid relegation this season.
“They don’t deserve to be where they are with the players that they have,” Summers added. “Look at their result over Matroosfontein over the weekend, they won 4-2 and it gives you a glimpse of their potential,” Summers added.
That said, recent history has shown that FC Hout Bay has always had the odds stacked against them battling to retain its status – wonder why?
