Personally, I think silverwood is a good shout. He got the lads motivated properly for the 4 games he was in charge, which if I recall we won 3 and drew 1 against the promoted side. He's presided over the development of some decent young seamers( 2 of whom have unfortunately left us) and the players seem to understand him.
The down side is that because he's already here, he won't have much negotiating power with the current set up to get it kicked around and re-organised properly.
mills never developed above his raw talent, under a decent coach would have been so much more.
topley was coached by don.
porter is the only seamer, who has developed at essex and thats it in however many years silverwood has been coaching.
compared with other counties that's pretty poor considering there is literally no other young seamers coming through. in fact its quite shocking. things are so bad a player deemed no where near good enough one season was re-engaged (moore) based on nothing more than lack of alternatives.
player understand him? on what basis have you made that judgement?
the team won games after the season was effectively over. graysons team did that and drawing with a promoted team once they already had promotion is certainly no indicator.
silverwood would be a shocking choice given his influence over the underachievement grayson presided over. he was graysons man and should have gone too. however he is cheap and part of the structure so no chanfe essex will just as likely go with grayson mark 2.
