Who’s the critical voice in the camp?

LeeMiller

LeeMiller

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It’s been frustrating watching us this season, but for me that tipped into disappointment yesterday with an insipid, uninspiring and ineffective second half performance.

I don’t see any leaders on the pitch. Of course we lost games with Barry Robson and Grant Leadbitter playing but it felt like there was a bit of passion.

Game ends in defeat and we hear we were the better team, we dominated the ball. Carrick can’t really think that we deserved something out of that. If that’s the message that’s going to the players, what’s going to change?

As someone mentioned last night, who is Carrick’s sounding board. His brother and statistically our worst manager in recent history. Alarm Bells.

Looks like our players are too comfortable putting in so so performances but it’s alright if we dominate possession, despite the fact the opposition are happy for us to have it. It’s his job and he’ll do it his way but he’ll also lose his job if this underachievement continues. I don’t want him to look back at this season as a missed opportunity and that some advice from a much more experienced coach / manger would have helped.
 
We are missing Smith and or Lenihan.

Someone who doesn’t mind taking one for team and doing what they did to LL in the first few minutes to slow a quick opponent down. We are far too nice. Ayling is probably the only one capable in the current line up but with his aging legs he needs to be careful not to get a yellow too early.
 
It looks like Aaron Danks is proving difficult to replace. Not convinced by JW as far as tactics is concerned. Don't know if Carrick's brother has a significant input. The lack of physicality up front and Carrick's preference for a single striker is the main problem in my opinion. I'd like to see Lath playing of Burgzorg or preferably Forss.
 
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timetoretire said:
It looks like Aaron Banks is proving difficult to replace. Not convinced by JW as far as tactics is concerned. Don't know if Carrick's brother has a significant input. The lack of physicality up front and Carrick's preference for a single striker is the main problem in my opinion. I'd like to see Lath playing of Burgzorg or preferably Forss.
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I think it’s the players more than the assistant coach. Regardless of tactics and shapes and multiple press triggers.. you need to score goals.. you need to put away chances.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
None of us are in the camp so nobody knows. It’s pure speculation and sort of pointless trying to suggest otherwise.
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You’re right we don’t know, but not pointless to raise it as a point. I think to most observers we seem to be struggling with the same few things, yet keep trying them.

Who says, wait it’s not working
 
We’ve missed leaders on the pitch for a long time.
Howson was in there as a senior player and, to me, it was largely ceremonial. He was never really a captain type, at least not the archetypal captain I prefer and see being effective.
 
Think shouting and diving into challenges is overrated by fans.

One thing I've learnt from footballers' biographies is that real leaders are the ones who are brave enough to always show for the ball, always try and do something with it and set the standards every day. The likes of Keane and Gerrard did that for their whole careers and had the fire as well; so do the likes of Harry Kane and Martin Odegaard, in different ways.

Players don't really respect someone who "shows a bit of passion" but fans love it. I get OP's point about who the critical voices are in the camp though.
 
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