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Don’t boo em….might hurt their feelings.Crikey those Chelsea players look mighty disinterested in doing what they are paid for!!
Don’t boo em….might hurt their feelings.Crikey those Chelsea players look mighty disinterested in doing what they are paid for!!
Playing the Bournemouth wayCrikey those Chelsea players look mighty disinterested in doing what they are paid for!!
I've always said I think they are still looking in the background, or perhaps they have their man but he's not available yet. Perhaps even it's Bielsa and negotiations are ongoing.
How plausible is it that they genuinely think O'Neil is the right man for the club long-term? It isn't imo.
I've got a hunch that the Bielsa thing may still be rumbling along. He has stated before that he doesn't take teams on half way through a season and an 18 month contract smacks of temporary as far as management contracts in football go.
I wonder if we are seeing history repeat itself. Employ someone while waiting for the person you really want to take the club forward and build for it's future.
To say the players don’t care isn’t quite true . No one wants to get beaten.Has to go, hasn't got a clue. Stupid appointment by the Yanks which they will have to correct as a mistake that will likely lead to our relegation.
Alot of talk by them but no signings when we're desperate, all they've done is appoint someone with no experience and done nothing whilst we've suffered with 9 defeats in 10 on top awful performances, no goals, no shots, nothing. Just sick of it all. Players were embarrassing today should be ashamed but I don't think they care anyway.
It’s a tiny coaching team. Smaller than a league two club. Without sounding like a stuck record what sort of Director of Football lets that happen? One unqualified for the job.I still feel, either by fault or design that O’Neil just doesn’t have the support behind him to give him a chance of being successful.
Scott Parker had an army of back room staff. His assistant Wells and goalkeeper coach Burch were instrumental to how it all worked.
Burch in particular did the set pieces and he hasn’t been replaced.
Alastair Harris, head of performance, actually stayed following Parker’s sacking but Charlie Moore lead physical performance coach and Jonathan Hill first-team head analyst also left I believe?
What role do they play in monitoring players work loads? The type of thing that uses all the data to try and prevent injury and have players hitting their peak (theoretically at least) on a match day? Has this contributed to us looking like the walking wounded and thus obvious lack any explosive physical approach to a game? Even worse has it contributed even by the smallest percent towards any of the injuries we’ve suffered?
I simply don’t know, just floating the idea. Not having someone quite as visible or deals with set pieces and us being terrible at set pieces is an easy complaint. Are we lacking in other support areas too?
It’s a tiny coaching team. Smaller than a league two club. Without sounding like a stuck record what sort of Director of Football lets that happen? One unqualified for the job.
It’s also a reason why people calling for Elphick to take the job need to give their head a wobble, all that gives us is we move from three coaches to two.
How much smaller is our coaching team than when we had Eddie or Parker? Hasn’t everyone been replaced like for like
No. Eddie had himself, JT, Stephen Purches, Simon Wetherstone, Neil Moss, Gareth Stewart, and a Portuguese chap whose name escapes me (Faria?) all on first team duty. Also an army of analysts, dieticians’a sports psychologist etc, fitness team. Fletch in current role as well.How much smaller is our coaching team than when we had Eddie or Parker? Hasn’t everyone been replaced like for like
Blake and Hughes wanted a model where they had more control (and money) and the manager became a coach. There is merit to this, it works at a lot of clubs, but not with unqualified people running it. They made their bed and now are having to lie in it. Unfortunately for us fans we just have to suffer it.
but in football world the better the team do the better everyone looks, there is alot less questions asked when things go wellI wonder if this is one of those classic business situations where an insecure, ineffective boss will deliberately hire people who are clearly inferior in preference to better-qualified candidates ? I guess the thinking is that the low-calibre appointment will easily be dominated and will offer no long-term threat.
I've seen that a few times in my life. Always ends in disaster.
Exactly DJ. No point keep harking back to what Eddie did. He made everything tick and when he left, the structure was always going to be different. Thats when you need the right people in executive positions to make the big decisions, well. I don't believe we have that
Same in business but as David says it still happens.but in football world the better the team do the better everyone looks, there is alot less questions asked when things go well