coalman

You mean he isn't going to be sacked while any successor might have a realistic chance of turning things around.

The reason they got this way is because our culture is broken. When all roads lead to Rasmus nobody needs to take responsibility. When you keep getting managers who want to be your pal and don't offer direct feedback nobody grows. When your manager stands up after every game and says we played really well then nobody learns. When there isn't some angry bastard kicking lumps out of you in training because you're not fully committed you never learn to play with intensity. When you can blame bad luck there's no need to change. When you fire the manager every few months there's no incentive to build working relationships - just to learn how to maneuver to gain favour with this next manager. You can see it in the way their heads go down at the first sign of adversity or when we haven't blown the other team away in the first half. You see it in the way that it's about getting rid of the ball, not progressing it. You see it in the way that nobody tracks runners into the box. You see it in the way nobody challenges the player crossing the ball. Any manager coming in has to address this rotten culture before any progress can be made.

Reminds me of an old boss of mine. Every single appointment he made was either fired 6 months in for not being able to get things done while being micromanaged or rage quit around the one year mark when he remembered he had employed them and started trying to micromanage them.

On a more serious note. It's been nearly 2 months - we're due another manager. Can't believe what Rasmus is thinking keeping him in position so long. Everyone knows managers peak after 5 games and then it's all downhill.

And hopefully they'll receive a sincere and extensive apology before they get back on the coach to head home.

The subs will cover the important task of protecting Manning from a red.

Now we've just got a load of wannabe teapots with hands on hips. No desire to get back into the game. This could get ugly.

Now we've conceded time to make some changes and make sure we hold on to this 1-0 defeat.

Boro played the first half with 3 centre backs. Will be interesting to see what happens if they switch after the break.

Ball comes in. One striker. Three CBs. Nobody near the striker. Lucky he was offside.

Ball goes wide to Boro's right. Manning nowhere to be seen. Great tackle by Quarshie

Three players and not one tried to put pressure on the crosser.

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Let's hope it's too cold today to play walking football.

I was a yes after his start but he's changed my mind with the last few performances. But, on the basis of the first 5 or 6 games he earned a shot at getting us promoted. I'm still hopeful he'll see how teams are setting up against us and adapt.

Peak Saints transfer window. Let's see how long this saga drags on for. We could suggest Hamburg take George Long on instead.

And if your space saver just stayed there it would be fine. He still trains with the team so I'm going to assume people hit shots at him. So we're practicing shots against a keeper that can't get down to his left, a keeper that can't save at his near post and one which is a hologram. Then we're surprised our finishing in matches is not the same as training or that opposition keepers do unexpected things like coming off their line to claim the ball when we cross If you hire warm bodies that provide no competition it's easy for complacency to set in in training. Then carry forward into games.

If we could cram another one or two CBs into our line up they'd need to commit more players to the press and we'd have more spaces to break into. He's already shown immense adaptability by starting with half our best players on the bench so no one can accuse him of ineffective substitutions. So he took on board the criticism that his subs make things worse. Adding just one extra CB would show he's not wedded to five at the back like he's being accused of while allowing him to operate within the framework of Rasmusball.

Everyone had a point to prove after Still left that he was the problem. Now we had a decent start under Eckert we can safely return to our previous no intensity complacency.

The good news is they haven't bothered to hire a coaching team in around Eckert so at least we won't have to pay early termination of their contracts.

I love the way Rasmus is trying to extend the Peter Principle. Not only do we promote people beyond their ability. We keep promoting them presumably in the hopes that eventually they'll become competent again.

It honestly feels like I'm trapped in an abusive relationship with this football club now. The zero intensity we approach the game with is painful to watch.

It is. Can find it with search. COYR - don't make me regret switching over from the darts

I have no problem benching tired players. In particular we've been asking Fellows to take on a ludicrous workload by playing him at wing back. Stephens/Manning might be tired enough to rest if they played at more than walking pace.

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