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Post by WyomingWhite on May 22, 2006 13:49:16 GMT -1
Yes, you're right Jen the players SHOULD be able to motivate themselves. However, it never seems to work like that. Plus, who knows, if the players feel that the tactics are wrong they aren't going to be as up for it as if they are 100% in agreement with the manager All players can motivate themselves to a large extent, however it is the manager's job to get the extra important 1 or 2% extra that gives them the advantage over the opposition. The margin between success and failure when we are talking about professional footballers is minimal and any additional performance improvement however small can be the difference. That is the manager's job, and yesterday ours failed. Of course, I was it were that simple, but all factors contributed.
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Post by Joe on May 22, 2006 14:35:33 GMT -1
IMO. Blackwell should never have been offered that 3 year contract at the time he did. It was just totally the wrong time, fair enough we had just been on a good run, but Bates should have waited till the end of the season. Ive always said that KB is too much of a "coach" and not enough of a manager with the technical know-how. YES, he has done a very good job getting us to where we are, but im starting to want a "manager" rather than a coach . He hasnt learnt that the 4-5-1 / "4-3-3" doesnt work, we played so much better yesterday for the little amount of time we had healy hulse and blake on the field. There were striker partnerships, and that is what i think gets clubs to the premiership, look at Wigan (ellington and roberts last season) West Ham (zamora and harewood) Reading (Kitson, Lita and Doyle). However, the problem we have with that is that we do have 4 quality strikers in Blake, Healy, Cresswell and Hulse, and we cant play all of them, and Beckford looks a bright talent as well. So after that ittle rant, i hope we play 4-4-2 next season, possibly sell off one of our main strikers ( im thinking Healy) and stick with the same front two for a longer period, see what they do together. As for Midfiled and Defence, i think we need to bring in a new centre back, Butlers getting on a bit, and Derry should be made captain. Douglas will most likely to go bk to blackburn, and Miller to Manure, so we will deff need another young, good midfielder (maybe give Pugh more of a chance next season?) and give Walton a few games, see what hes like pre-season anyway. Well thats my personal opinion on what should(nt) happen next season, turned out to be more of an essay than id hoped but oh well.
Marching on to the Premiership in 2007!
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Post by WyomingWhite on May 22, 2006 14:38:45 GMT -1
IMO. Blackwell should never have been offered that 3 year contract at the time he did. It was just totally the wrong time, fair enough we had just been on a good run, but Bates should have waited till the end of the season. Ive always said that KB is too much of a "coach" and not enough of a manager with the technical know-how. YES, he has done a very good job getting us to where we are, but im starting to want a "manager" rather than a coach . He hasnt learnt that the 4-5-1 / "4-3-3" doesnt work, we played so much better yesterday for the little amount of time we had healy hulse and blake on the field. There were striker partnerships, and that is what i think gets clubs to the premiership, look at Wigan (ellington and roberts last season) West Ham (zamora and harewood) Reading (Kitson, Lita and Doyle). However, the problem we have with that is that we do have 4 quality strikers in Blake, Healy, Cresswell and Hulse, and we cant play all of them, and Beckford looks a bright talent as well. So after that ittle rant, i hope we play 4-4-2 next season, possibly sell off one of our main strikers ( im thinking Healy) and stick with the same front two for a longer period, see what they do together. As for Midfiled and Defence, i think we need to bring in a new centre back, Butlers getting on a bit, and Derry should be made captain. Douglas will most likely to go bk to blackburn, and Miller to Manure, so we will deff need another young, good midfielder (maybe give Pugh more of a chance next season?) and give Walton a few games, see what hes like pre-season anyway. Well thats my personal opinion on what should(nt) happen next season, turned out to be more of an essay than id hoped but oh well. Marching on to the Premiership in 2007! Can't disagree with any of that, nice one Joe. Team stability breeds consistency.
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Post by bananacrepe on May 22, 2006 17:37:08 GMT -1
IMO. Blackwell should never have been offered that 3 year contract at the time he did. It was just totally the wrong time, fair enough we had just been on a good run, but Bates should have waited till the end of the season. Ive always said that KB is too much of a "coach" and not enough of a manager with the technical know-how. YES, he has done a very good job getting us to where we are, but im starting to want a "manager" rather than a coach . He hasnt learnt that the 4-5-1 / "4-3-3" doesnt work, we played so much better yesterday for the little amount of time we had healy hulse and blake on the field. There were striker partnerships, and that is what i think gets clubs to the premiership, look at Wigan (ellington and roberts last season) West Ham (zamora and harewood) Reading (Kitson, Lita and Doyle). However, the problem we have with that is that we do have 4 quality strikers in Blake, Healy, Cresswell and Hulse, and we cant play all of them, and Beckford looks a bright talent as well. So after that ittle rant, i hope we play 4-4-2 next season, possibly sell off one of our main strikers ( im thinking Healy) and stick with the same front two for a longer period, see what they do together. As for Midfiled and Defence, i think we need to bring in a new centre back, Butlers getting on a bit, and Derry should be made captain. Douglas will most likely to go bk to blackburn, and Miller to Manure, so we will deff need another young, good midfielder (maybe give Pugh more of a chance next season?) and give Walton a few games, see what hes like pre-season anyway. Well thats my personal opinion on what should(nt) happen next season, turned out to be more of an essay than id hoped but oh well. Marching on to the Premiership in 2007! good sense, i'm thinking along the lines of moving kb upto director of football or whatever and bringing in a manager, whilst kb has undoubted coach skills his management and selection does seem a litttle one dimensional sometimes. i'm still a kb fan after all he has done for us mind, tough one. Banana
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Post by jimbo on May 22, 2006 19:29:18 GMT -1
Any one know what the plans are on the playing side of things? Are Douglas and Miller going back to Blackburn and Man U? Is Bakke on his way to Villa? Will Healy put in a transfer request? (fingers crossed) Will mid range Prem clubs come in for the likes of Killa? Will Blackwell be in charge for the first game of next season? (am beginning to think he doesn't have the motivational skills needed) Time will tell, I suppose.... I hope we sign Douglas, has really come along since he first played for us at the start of the season, Miller can be good but he can be bad as well so he can piss off.... Bakke will most probably go, hes not a Championship player.... Healy will probably go, fed up of playing out of position... it'll be a shame..... Killa will stay, Blackwell would never sell him would he? and no Blackwell doesn't have the motivational skills but he has put a GREAT team together and if he figures out a way to utilise them to the best of their ability we'll be back in the prem.....
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