You get two camps in these types of scenarios - the ‘managers fault’ camp and the ‘players are crap and at fault’ camp. The truth is normally somewhere in between and a lot more nuanced than that. Both can be true yes the players are by and large the product of poor recruitment when we had money, but the manager is not coaching them well which is clearly evident through their performances. First word out of his mouth, was we kept a good shape, he is referring to defensive shape..nothing more. We keep hearing that players down tools (I mentioned yesterday) and then you hear back that they always do it….but this isn’t the same squad of players for the most part as six seven eight years ago. A big chunk of these players are different.
The concern I have is that he does not seem to learn and when he does it’s only through public pressure, he is forced into it. By the way, the hero, zero stuff and the European, Goodison’s last season stuff is all in his head. I never thought he or anyone in the squad was a hero because we had a half decent season and no one has mentioned anything about Goodison or Europe. If only he coached his team to attack in the way his media thinly veiled attacks have been. What has it been 2 games played, zero points, GD-7 and two shots on target?
