by happytorq » 17 Jun 2015, 13:17
Dave_Pougher wrote:Updated Dave! Had a fair bit of stick for my opnion on Mr B.Phillips and not revealing what I knew/felt ( not form Dave I hasten to add) about him and his position at TUFC. Not that that bothers me then or now but in hind sight I hope that some, not all obviously, now realise my concerns were genuine.
Is "Phillips" supposed to have three Ls Dave, or is the L-L-L an allusion to our form?
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rickl wrote:CH should have been able to do better with the squad he had. I just can't buy his comments that he had so many players that was not his signings. That shouldn't stop him from motivating them to do a good job for the club.
I follow Rosenborg here in Norway. The last 2-3 seasons the club had a useless manager who was more focused on "getting back on the horse" each time the team lost a match or played bad. So at the end of last season he finally got sacked and a new manager came in. He had a completely different approach to the game, training and motivation. After a few start problems in the first few games they went on a 10 game winning streak to close the season. The start of this season has seen this form continue.
He has basically the same group of players as the old manager but it looks like a brand new team. Players that have been utterly awful for years are now setting "the league on fire". The mood in the squad are much better. If CH was a great manager he should have been able to do something like this as well.
But then again, maybe he just had crap players...
The old "This isn't my team" excuse only gets you so far. Most professional players are capable of being part of a winning team. We only have to look at some of the players in our successful teams to know that it's very much about the chemistry as much as it is talent. I mean - Matt Hockley was great for us but he was never going to snapped up by Arsenal. I'd be prepared to give a manager a pass only for so long using that excuse. It's the managers job to identify strengths as much as weaknesses, and it's also on him to drill the team on the training ground to reduce silly errors. That didn't seem to happen last year. We've seen plenty of times that a new manager can come in and suddenly get great results with the same team, so clearly there's more to the job than simply finding players you like.
[quote="Dave_Pougher"]Updated Dave! Had a fair bit of stick for my opnion on Mr B.Phillips and not revealing what I knew/felt ( not form Dave I hasten to add) about him and his position at TUFC. Not that that bothers me then or now but in hind sight I hope that some, not all obviously, now realise my concerns were genuine.[/quote]
Is "Phillips" supposed to have three Ls Dave, or is the L-L-L an allusion to our form? :)
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[quote="rickl"]CH should have been able to do better with the squad he had. I just can't buy his comments that he had so many players that was not his signings. That shouldn't stop him from motivating them to do a good job for the club.
I follow Rosenborg here in Norway. The last 2-3 seasons the club had a useless manager who was more focused on "getting back on the horse" each time the team lost a match or played bad. So at the end of last season he finally got sacked and a new manager came in. He had a completely different approach to the game, training and motivation. After a few start problems in the first few games they went on a 10 game winning streak to close the season. The start of this season has seen this form continue.
He has basically the same group of players as the old manager but it looks like a brand new team. Players that have been utterly awful for years are now setting "the league on fire". The mood in the squad are much better. If CH was a great manager he should have been able to do something like this as well.
But then again, maybe he just had crap players...[/quote]
The old "This isn't my team" excuse only gets you so far. Most professional players are capable of being part of a winning team. We only have to look at some of the players in our successful teams to know that it's very much about the chemistry as much as it is talent. I mean - Matt Hockley was great for us but he was never going to snapped up by Arsenal. I'd be prepared to give a manager a pass only for so long using that excuse. It's the managers job to identify strengths as much as weaknesses, and it's also on him to drill the team on the training ground to reduce silly errors. That didn't seem to happen last year. We've seen plenty of times that a new manager can come in and suddenly get great results with the same team, so clearly there's more to the job than simply finding players you like.
