getdressedmctavish wrote:Blimey, there'll be people saying dracula's not the first bloke you'd like to meet in a forest next. Course a good number of the players are disaffected. Its been blindingly obvious for yonks. Course the team spirit is poor compared to a lot of lesser teams but also the rags. Thats because that is how Bert operates, distant dictatorship. The only worthwhile question is, does it work. Now we know the answer if we didn't already.When you add in a bloke who cant cope with Wigan's tactics it don't leave a lot. Good players have been getting us out of the shit in most games. Its when you come up against good players who are a team and who are well organised you are likely to suffer. See champions league. And domestically, ordinary players who are well organised and well motivated have been beating us for a long time. It wont change by buying better players, will it. So you have to remove the problem which is what we are belatedly doing.
I like that. I'd morph it a bit to something like the players have probably not been allowed to have
any input into the team shape and tactics. In other words the ideas have all come down from Bob ( see Dougs reports ).
While the manager has to decide, he can still include the players thinking along the way. Strikes me that doesn't happen at all with Bob and at some point there will be a consequence of that, especially with a team that he hasn't built up player by player himself.
This season the gap between Bob's ideas and the 'what am i doing' belief of the players widened considerably.
on another tack related to this anyone read Sid Lowe's analysis in the Grundian? Basically says that Tricky Burger liked Rijkaard's style of inclusion and won't like Mancini's opposite style..
Tricky comes in Mancini goes out - the club struggle to put any kind of spin on it to assuage the fans and the media.
Mancini is right about one thing at least - someone at the club responsible for communications is not up to the job.
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