Really good post. I agree with every word.Thor wrote: ↑Sun Sep 22, 2019 8:30 am Do you know what Bergen, great stat by the way. The team is being fully supported by us fans as evidenced by your stat, unfortunately we are being let down, not necessarily by the players, but by the direction given to them, by the leadership provided to them.
If you look at the games and analyise them you can see that we are not as well drilled as we were last season, yet it’s the same people coaching them. People last year threw their bodies on the line game after game, this season I am not seeing that. The coaching it would appear is not as good as it was previously and it seems to me that we’ve slipped back to “Davis mode” that’s not to say the coaches are not good enough, we’ve seen that they are, but it’s the direction and details that they are given by the manager to implement his vision. That’s a massive loss on what we had last year.
Decisions over substitutions have cost us points in previous games imho, yet yesterday a strange thing happened. The ball was out of play, the ref asked coulson to leave the pitch, RE was then taking him off for Happe, Coulson is waving his hands about, the physio is on his phone thing, the assistant ref has the board to change, the announcer is starting to say the change, coulson is waving his hands about obviously saying I’m ok, the physio walks all the way back and happe is told to sit down. What the hell was that all about? Indecision, lack of direction, not listening maybe? Not sure, but what I do know it was embarrassing.
Ling Snr should have brought in a midfield enforcer, he failed us by not doing so. Some of the other contracts, I’m not going to have a pop at him about as they earned the right to play here and deserved them. His son though after struggling last season we should have waited, reviewed and then decided, again miss judgement on his decision making I’m afraid, at least that’s what I think rather than nepotism.
This team is good enough to compete in the upper tier of this league and dare I say it, the play offs. It’s clear to see from what we have faced so far, and under JE we would be top 3. What the club has done over Justin has been marvellous and special and they deserve credit for that. However, RE is not working, the team is not performing to its capability and the rot is starting to set in as is sure as day turns into night the players will lose confidence in him, and that would be a shame. I’m not blaming RE he’s doing a job under extremely terrible circumstances and I applaud him for standing up and taking it on however, he’s a coach a number 2 not a manager and this needs to change before the damage is done and the players won’t accept him as a coach.
We need bold leadership now from our owners, and I would not like to see anyone thrown under the bus, but a leader needs to be brought in ASAP and RE revert back to the coaching team before the damage done to him is too great.
That incident yesterday summed up exactly what’s wrong. There’s no leadership, no direction, nobody knows what everyone else is doing. It sticks out a mile.
Nigel and Kent know what good management is. They must also know what it isn’t. I just hope there around at the minute to see it for themselves, rather than listening to Lingy telling them it’ll all be ok with a bit more time and patience.
