But you see if Hogg is bigger than the manager in everyone's eyes, the manager is up shit creek before he's started. Obviously, the manager is clearly an idiot for allowing a fight of any kind to happen with an important squad member. Going in with the local hero is a no-win situation.
Fights do sometimes break out on the training ground, but you don't fight the boss, especially if you want to get in the team come Saturday. If a manager really disliked a player and thought he was one of the problems wouldn't allowing a fight to happen provide him with the perfect excuse to leave him on the bench, or worse, forever? He doesn't need to sack Hogg, because he's the one pinning up the team sheet.
I'm not against Hogg, but he is a defensive midfielder and his legs are going to confine him more and more to that role only. That really means that to go forward successfully you need two more attack minded midfielders alongside him, so playing him almost dictates the way you play as a team. Last season by having Toffolo raiding down one wing and Thomas down the other you had a way to go forward and were a permanent threat to the opposition. Now Fotheringham's surely got you feeding Thomas, because he's no faith in something productive coming from the other wing?
Hogg has been a wonderful servant for your club. I'm sure he's Huddersfield through and through, but at some point, you all have to contemplate that there'll be life after him and more important he has to contemplate that too! Surely if he were putting Huddersfield's interests before his own then he wouldn't be fighting with a very newly installed manager, however much he disagreed with him? It is a team game.
When your most senior, respected player is fighting the manager, it's Tory MPs squabbling and pushing and shoving in the lobby. It can't be like that. It gets carried onto the field of play, where you've all got to fight for each other, especially when you are up against teams that look superior to you on paper.
My more football tactics point anyway would be that when teams come up against a really good defensive midfielder sealing up the centre of defence they tend to react by going out wide. That's fine if you've got really good players out there. The worst that happens then is the odd desperation cross for the keeper to pluck. If you are weak in those areas, they can turn into nightmare spaces ......... and you've sealed one leak at the price of creating two.
At the risk of being very unpopular, watching you last season, if you'd asked what I thought you needed if you went up to the Premier League, I'd have said sign a commanding centre back, a reliable, attacking right full back, sign a forward with a goal in him and a few weapons to worry good defences ........ and someone to replace Hogg because he might well no longer be able to hack it at that level. I want Huddersfield to win, but to be fair to a manager who probably doesn't deserve it, trying to achieve that seems like firefighting in several areas of the pitch.
Fights do sometimes break out on the training ground, but you don't fight the boss, especially if you want to get in the team come Saturday. If a manager really disliked a player and thought he was one of the problems wouldn't allowing a fight to happen provide him with the perfect excuse to leave him on the bench, or worse, forever? He doesn't need to sack Hogg, because he's the one pinning up the team sheet.
I'm not against Hogg, but he is a defensive midfielder and his legs are going to confine him more and more to that role only. That really means that to go forward successfully you need two more attack minded midfielders alongside him, so playing him almost dictates the way you play as a team. Last season by having Toffolo raiding down one wing and Thomas down the other you had a way to go forward and were a permanent threat to the opposition. Now Fotheringham's surely got you feeding Thomas, because he's no faith in something productive coming from the other wing?
Hogg has been a wonderful servant for your club. I'm sure he's Huddersfield through and through, but at some point, you all have to contemplate that there'll be life after him and more important he has to contemplate that too! Surely if he were putting Huddersfield's interests before his own then he wouldn't be fighting with a very newly installed manager, however much he disagreed with him? It is a team game.
When your most senior, respected player is fighting the manager, it's Tory MPs squabbling and pushing and shoving in the lobby. It can't be like that. It gets carried onto the field of play, where you've all got to fight for each other, especially when you are up against teams that look superior to you on paper.
My more football tactics point anyway would be that when teams come up against a really good defensive midfielder sealing up the centre of defence they tend to react by going out wide. That's fine if you've got really good players out there. The worst that happens then is the odd desperation cross for the keeper to pluck. If you are weak in those areas, they can turn into nightmare spaces ......... and you've sealed one leak at the price of creating two.
At the risk of being very unpopular, watching you last season, if you'd asked what I thought you needed if you went up to the Premier League, I'd have said sign a commanding centre back, a reliable, attacking right full back, sign a forward with a goal in him and a few weapons to worry good defences ........ and someone to replace Hogg because he might well no longer be able to hack it at that level. I want Huddersfield to win, but to be fair to a manager who probably doesn't deserve it, trying to achieve that seems like firefighting in several areas of the pitch.