It’s sad. I think he is a decent bloke and doesn’t get up in the morning intending to be rubbish but something is wrong there. His short passing is awful, doesn’t impress with crosses and positionally leaves a lot to be desired.
And if my Aunty had a cock she’d be my uncle
Not far off a year ago we were slaughtering them as well.
It’s all excuses. If we lose to Boro it will be, ‘the two week break forced us to become complacent.’ We have become a bit of a joke. In the best days under Eddie we just played with the hand we were dealt, there were never any excuses made. When we couldn’t fill the bench we didn’t even come out with the bs excuses that we do these days. It was a winners mentality. Winners don’t make excuses, they take accountability and play the hand they are dealt. It’s part of the mentality problem that we are experiencing. Tindal was the worst for this, we have hired the wrong type of character twice this season and it has cost us.Watched the post match interviews on COWS today and it was interesting to hear what Cookie and JW came up with.
JW said that the players were exhausted, the relentless schedule was taking its toll. Well all I can say to that is why aren't the Norwich and Watford players suffering to the same degree ? Sounds like a convenient excuse to me. Or perhaps those teams just play smarter and don't waste as much energy ? If that is the case, then that too is JW's responsibility and he needs to own it and do something about it. He is looking forward to being able to give the players a bit of a rest and to having at least five players back from injury after the break. OK.
Cookie said that the two week break would be the first opportunity to really spend time with the manager and get to grips with how he wants us to play. I accept that JW came in and has so far had very little time on the training pitch or between matches to put his ideas across. He pretty much had to hit the ground running and manage the situation as best he could.
If there is any truth in what the pair of them came up with, we now have a two week break for our "exhausted" players to recover, two weeks for the new manager to put his ideas across to them and pretty much a full squad of players rested and fit at his disposal when the league resumes.
There really can be no excuses if we fail to accrue the points needed to secure a playoff spot.
I'm just putting this out there now because I'm sure the excuses will come thick and fast when we narrowly miss out on the playoffs come seasons' end
It seems to me that JW and the players now have the perfect opportunity to put things right and save our season.
Absolutely ! It's rare for us to benefit in any way from a long break without any matches being played. Usually we manage to come back far worse than when we stopped so I am worried that we will lose the momentum of the Swans game.
I've marked in bold the part which I think will be most crucial in our attempts to reach the playoffs. If at all possible we really should use this time to bond this group of individuals into a team. I appreciate that with COVID our options may be limited but if there are any team building activities at all still available then we should make use of them. I honestly think that creating a good team spirit will help us way more than another twelve hours on the training ground. I would hope that somebody at the club is looking into options for team building/bonding activities.
It increasingly occurs to me that we have more than a few players who nobody here seems able to get through to and get buy-in to a team ethos. Not Howe, not Tindall, not Woodgate, nor senior pros like Cook. And we don't have many senior pros to back Cook up. These few just want to play on their own terms, when it suits them.
Yeah obviously when Woodgate came out with the 9 'cup finals' b0llox he wasn't to know that we were fed that guff last season......Steve Cook really should know better though.....How many of those 'cup finals' did the players turn up for Steve?
