This isn’t a Mickey Mouse blog.

Sure, that squeaky-voiced, cartoon rodent is mentioned repeatedly, but that doesn’t necessarily mean my argument is trivial or flippant. Nor, I hope, is it so saccharine that it rots the teeth right out your skull as much of the post-war Disney fare tends to do.

Now if you know anything about Mickey Mouse then you will hopefully be familiar with his appearance in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, a segment from old Walt’s masterwork, Fantasia.

If it’s been a while since you’ve seen it, allow me to briefly recap. Mickey, an apprentice to a powerful sorcerer, tires of lugging pails of water, so he utilises a little of his master’s magic to do the job for him. However, he soon finds himself in a flooded basement, both figuratively and literally out of his depth, having lost control of the spell.

It is in this capacity that this plucky little mouse will cast his famous shadow over this column. You see, Mickey’s error in judgement was not that he wasn’t capable of producing magic; it was that he used somebody else’s magic, a magic he could not control, instead of cultivating his own.

It’s a typical rookie mistake, as they say. But additionally, it is also a valuable lesson for new Brisbane Roar manager Rado Vidosic in his first professional managerial post. A lesson the club’s supporters would be wise to heed as well.

You see, following Vidosic’s appointment as Ange Postecoglou’s successor last week, much has been written in regard to his long tenure as an apprentice at the club – seven years under three different managers.

Many commentators have suggested this will provide much desired continuity for the two time A-League champions. In regard to man management, that is relating to and dealing with the idiosyncrasies of individuals within the playing squad, this is almost certainly true.

However, attempting to continue the previous manager’s methodology, no matter how successful it was, is a risky strategy since, much like sorcerers, no two football managers are ever alike.

By way of example, let’s consider the various spells of the three managers to hold the position prior to Vidosic.

Miron Bleiberg was enigmatic, spontaneous and borderline schizophrenic in his strategies and recruitments; Frank Farina’s style was more conservative, consistently erring on the side of caution, prizing experience over exuberance; while Postecoglou tended more towards the dictatorial with a rigid, albeit successful, system that stemmed from an unflappable and near megalomaniacal level of self-belief.

Now, irrespective of results, each of these methodologies has its inherit advantages and disadvantages. But the one thing they all have in common is that, despite being part of their implementation, none of them were actually devised by Rado Vidosic.

Much like our friend Mickey Mouse, Vidosic was entrusted to carry the pails of water rather than waving the wand. He may have had varying levels of input, and by all accounts he was instrumental in some of the more successful training initiatives at the club, but ultimately the big decisions weren’t his own.

As such, they should be considered in no way indicative of the manner in which Vidosic will manage the playing squad now he is the master and no longer the apprentice.

Having been appointed based on his experience and coaching credentials, Vidosic should now be afforded sufficient leeway to implement his own style and not be hamstrung by unrealistic expectations, be it from the Roar board, the local media or even know-it-all fans, that he operate in a certain manner simply because that’s how things were done before.

Thankfully, at least in my humble opinion, early reports suggest Vidosic has already begun implementing change, hinting at slight alterations to the Roar formation – utilising two holding midfielders instead of one – in an attempt to make the team more adaptive when circumstance demands, especially against increasingly astute Asian opposition.

While such a subtle adjustment could be considered closer to a cruise-ship magician’s sleight of hand than the incantations of an all-powerful sorcerer, it may ultimately prove to be the first step by Vidosic towards a magical managerial tenure at the club.

Of course, to achieve this lofty station Vidosic must be given a chance to do it on his own terms. And while such freedom might be considered foolhardy by some, it is no more allowance than was provided Postecoglou when he took over from Farina.

Vidosic's reputation might be small – as small as a mouse, in fact – but that in and of itself isn't sufficient reason to deny him the necessary freedom to do the job to the best of his ability.

As old Walt once put it: “I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing – it was all started by a mouse.”

And I can think of no mouse I would rather see get things restarted at Brisbane Roar in the post-Postecoglou era than Rado Vidosic – a three time sorcerer’s apprentice who will hopefully be given the opportunity to create a magic kingdom of his very own design.