29-09-2020, 12:08 PM
(28-09-2020, 09:42 PM)Sabricadabra Wrote:(28-09-2020, 01:16 PM)Jacksbadhobbits Wrote:(28-09-2020, 10:31 AM)stirred Wrote:(27-09-2020, 03:55 PM)Tricky Wrote: 4. He has lost a lot of the dressing room, not all of it, but quite a few players no longer want to know.
Losing the dressing room is a big problem that must be addressed one way or another
What does losing the dressing room mean.
It means the players, or the majority including the key characters and leaders in the dressing room, have lost belief and maybe respect in him and his methods. They might not be consciously defying him but they have mentally stopped giving 100% effort for him.
It’s what happened to MON at the end of his time here.
We could blame the players for their attitude, and we’d probably be right, but the fact is the coach is paid to get the best out of them and make the sum of the team greater than the sum of each individual. Once their faith in him has gone, he’s dead in the water. Once ‘the dressing room is lost’ it is game over. Bye bye coach.
You could argue that the best thing you could possibly do to change a clubs fortunes and get down to the bottom of it is to ruffle a few feathers and challenge the dressing room ethos, especially if it is underachieving or been generally failing for many months, years or even decades, even centuries
It was very very early pre season, a great time to get stuck in and get to the bottom of things
f*** the dressing room, if it's failing it has to be sorted out, so we sack managers for wanting to sort it out and stand up to ideals which are flawed, fair play to M o N, shame on the dressing room collective, it's probably still the same problems now 18 months or more later