07-12-2016, 13:31
Last night a re-jigged Chesterfield beat a re-jigged Rochdale. How much there is to learn I don't know.
BUT how Danny stands during a game IS of primary importance. By folding his arms he's telling players - nothing to do with me, nothing I can do, he's effectively disowning his team. Whether they know it or not people get the messages transmitted by body-language. If he keeps doing it we WILL lose and lose and lose. (He should be sharing the player's experience and opening up to them, but he's effectively shouting as loud as Sheridan that once you are on that pitch there's nothing I can do.) Unfortunately though we all read body language we find it very difficult to control our own. But Danny has to, because that team has to play FOR HIM and believe he can influence the game!
Though O'Shea is up for Player of the Month how much we benefit from his bursts of good performances followed by a series of invisible ones is hard to assess. If he wins it, might we actually be able to sell him in January and bring in a player capable of giving his best more than 25% of the time? Are we better or worse for Jay O'Shea?
Last night should be sufficient at least to worry a few established players. Allinson's clean sheet? Why not play him on Saturday, at worst he'd be our flop, rather than Liverpool's? Maguire must have made his case. Gardner? We know he's as reliable as O'Shea, but did he do enough? And there's Simons, if wants it and is trying, does that alone make him a better bet than some of our players who often aren't? Then we can, like Pooch, question those who were absent and wonder if we have players who actually improve our team by not being on the field!
Good management would be winning because you had a plan and it worked. Unfortunately random select will also sometimes arrive at the right answer. And occasionally the opposition will accidentally transform themselves into a team almost perfectly designed to lose. Much as some academics convince themselves management is a science, if it is, then it is based on Chaos Theory, with so many imponderables and immeasurables, that establishing causation between doing A and getting result B is nigh impossible.
BUT STOP FOLDING YOUR FCUIKNG ARMS DANNY!
BUT how Danny stands during a game IS of primary importance. By folding his arms he's telling players - nothing to do with me, nothing I can do, he's effectively disowning his team. Whether they know it or not people get the messages transmitted by body-language. If he keeps doing it we WILL lose and lose and lose. (He should be sharing the player's experience and opening up to them, but he's effectively shouting as loud as Sheridan that once you are on that pitch there's nothing I can do.) Unfortunately though we all read body language we find it very difficult to control our own. But Danny has to, because that team has to play FOR HIM and believe he can influence the game!
Though O'Shea is up for Player of the Month how much we benefit from his bursts of good performances followed by a series of invisible ones is hard to assess. If he wins it, might we actually be able to sell him in January and bring in a player capable of giving his best more than 25% of the time? Are we better or worse for Jay O'Shea?
Last night should be sufficient at least to worry a few established players. Allinson's clean sheet? Why not play him on Saturday, at worst he'd be our flop, rather than Liverpool's? Maguire must have made his case. Gardner? We know he's as reliable as O'Shea, but did he do enough? And there's Simons, if wants it and is trying, does that alone make him a better bet than some of our players who often aren't? Then we can, like Pooch, question those who were absent and wonder if we have players who actually improve our team by not being on the field!
Good management would be winning because you had a plan and it worked. Unfortunately random select will also sometimes arrive at the right answer. And occasionally the opposition will accidentally transform themselves into a team almost perfectly designed to lose. Much as some academics convince themselves management is a science, if it is, then it is based on Chaos Theory, with so many imponderables and immeasurables, that establishing causation between doing A and getting result B is nigh impossible.
BUT STOP FOLDING YOUR FCUIKNG ARMS DANNY!