16-03-2018, 19:21
I don't believe the players want to lose. I don't believe you have to shout to gain respect. And in my experience the quieter man is generally harder than the guy shouting his mouth off.
Fluent as Jack is, I'm guessing our players haven't got to grips with what is expected of them ......... much as they didn't get to grips with what GC expected from them. In GC's case I suspect he was the only one clear on how his plans were supposed to work. Maybe Jack has too many ideas and theories for them.
They perform as if they go out with a vision of what is supposed to happen. On the rare occasions that it DOES happen they look like they did against Luton. When reality doesn't match what is in their heads they quickly get disappointed, stop believing in the plan and aren't inventive enough to come up with anything better to get back in the game themselves. I'm thinking Jack needs to train them in a couple of alternative ways to play when things are going wrong. So he can say switch and everyone knows it is three at the back, a central midfielder becomes just a holding player, the full backs push on etc ......... and everyone still knows their job. Currently we sit at 0-0, the opposition score either in the 44th or 47th minute and the game is over. 0-0 was the best and most original we could be ........
Jack isn't a physically intimidating man. I remember years ago Jock Wallace managing Leicester to win every week at the old div 2, Championship level. He had a team full of young players. They ran and ran. A young Gary Lineker was up front. One day he was asked why the team worked so hard and never gave up. He nodded over to Wallace and said, "Would you come back in this dressing room to face him if you hadn't given everything?" But everything humans will do out of fear, they'll do for love too.
Very few people want to fail. No one wants to be bottom. When we beat Cheltenham tomorrow watch the players celebrate.
Fluent as Jack is, I'm guessing our players haven't got to grips with what is expected of them ......... much as they didn't get to grips with what GC expected from them. In GC's case I suspect he was the only one clear on how his plans were supposed to work. Maybe Jack has too many ideas and theories for them.
They perform as if they go out with a vision of what is supposed to happen. On the rare occasions that it DOES happen they look like they did against Luton. When reality doesn't match what is in their heads they quickly get disappointed, stop believing in the plan and aren't inventive enough to come up with anything better to get back in the game themselves. I'm thinking Jack needs to train them in a couple of alternative ways to play when things are going wrong. So he can say switch and everyone knows it is three at the back, a central midfielder becomes just a holding player, the full backs push on etc ......... and everyone still knows their job. Currently we sit at 0-0, the opposition score either in the 44th or 47th minute and the game is over. 0-0 was the best and most original we could be ........
Jack isn't a physically intimidating man. I remember years ago Jock Wallace managing Leicester to win every week at the old div 2, Championship level. He had a team full of young players. They ran and ran. A young Gary Lineker was up front. One day he was asked why the team worked so hard and never gave up. He nodded over to Wallace and said, "Would you come back in this dressing room to face him if you hadn't given everything?" But everything humans will do out of fear, they'll do for love too.
Very few people want to fail. No one wants to be bottom. When we beat Cheltenham tomorrow watch the players celebrate.