by tmesis »
02 May 2016 21:33
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Exactly this. I fear that McDermott's only way of motivating is being nice! That works fine with some but others respond far better when the manager//coach tells them exactly how it is!
The last thing I wanted to hear from my coach when I had a bad race were platitudes. I knew I had let myself and others down and didn't want anyone making light of that - b*ll*cking and then a positive discussion as to how we were going to make sure it didn't happen again.
Nor do we want or need a team that is full of players who respond well to a nice manager, you need a mix of personalities for maximum strength, just the same as you have to add sand and aggregate to cement!
So you're slating him, and saying he needs to go, based on your assumption of what he says to players after the game?
Not just after the game but before and during. How else do you explain his obvious inability to get any fire into his teams? And if you claim it's solely down to the players (which is rubbish) then he should have played some others from the squad, including the 'great character' Ferndandez.
Firstly, why is it clearly "rubbish" that the players are much of the problem?
Secondly, we didn't seem to have any problem with effort during his first spell in charge.
Again, it seems like you've decided on the problem (Brian can't motivate the players) and are working everything backwards from that premise.
Maybe he should have played other players, although I've no idea why you seem to believe I think Fernandez was a great player.
I think he played the players he did because on pure ability, they were the best players we had, and for whatever reason, he didn't have confidence in the understudies.
I believe he also said that it would be better for some players currently on loan, doing well in winning teams, to stay there - presumably to avoid the negative atmosphere at the club.
He has a summer to bring his own players in, players who'll fit into a style of play he wants to play (which he couldn't do at all with the current lot), and we probably can't judge him too much until the end of the year at least.