It is definite FACT that there was no offer at all on the table for him to consider...not even a bad one. Shoddy
This in a nutshell is why it is unfair, IMHO, to pin all the current failure on the pitch on Grant McCann. The decisions taken by the club hierarchy clearly undermined the manager and harmed to cohesiveness of the player group. It may well be the case that McCann's management has been uninspiring recently (though seeing a manager racing up and down the touchline bawling at players is a terrible measure of what happens on the training pitch). But in the end it was the players that downed tools, especially those who fancy their chances of finding another club, and they must take a big share of the blame. Take a look at what happened to Crystal Palace in recent weeks since Zaha decided he wanted out. The race on this board over the last week to be the person to call McCann the biggest number of bad names is pretty odd. He is far from the only, or even the main, problem here.
Yeah he was dealt a bad hand but his stubbornness in refusing to change formation or try something new is what relegated us. Perhaps if he'd have been crazy enough he could've played 2 upfront and given us a slight chance of having a shot on target.
He assembled a squad to play a system. That system got us to the fringes of the play-offs. Decisions off the field fatally wounded that success. Trying to play a different system with the same squad shorn of its key assets would have probably made us play even worse. We will never know I suppose.
But then we would have had less players at the other end and consequently let in even more goals. All the best Cant McCant
Wrote a similar thing to this on another thread - McCann might not be very good, but some of the players? They've been a disgrace to the shirt.
I agree the players needed to look at themselves and their professionism but let's not forget he had Bowen and Grosicki for the majority of January .. the fact our results were so piss poor with them prompted the owners to cash in .. prior to lockdown we were ravaged by injuries but the man you are trying to defend instead of making us difficult to beat basically tried playing a system that didn't suit what he had available .. thereby sending us on a spiral downwards .. then with almost 2 months thinking time still managed to fk it up on their return again due to trying to play systems that didn't fit the squad he had .. the owners are part of the problem but for me McCant is equally to blame because of his lack of footballing nowse and common sense. Yes the players should be bloody ashamed of themselves but it was McCant's tactics that have left the bereft of any ideas where they are supposed to be on the pitch.. what their roles are etc ... shyte sandwich all round for me
These players are severely restricting future employment chances then what with them only been able to play in one system FFS
Simple question to all if warnock has come here and not boro would we have stayed up? the answer is yes
Most definitely yes .. he has a footballing brain and would have changed systems immediately to fit with what we have
Whilst some of the points remain valid. It’s the managers responsibility to get the best out of the group of players he has at his disposal. I remember something our most successful ever manager Steve Bruce once said - pick a team/formation that best suits the players you have available. Did McCann do this? No. Should he be still in employment? In my opinion no. He failed repeatedly, and rather than changing things and making it look like he was trying to get the best out of the players available, he continued with a failing system. No excuses P45 for McCann.
Particularly as most of the players now here is down to Terry himself, just further illustrates he doesn't know what the hell he's doing! Out of his depth springs to mind!
Irvine was still the captain of a team that hadn't won a game in 11 prior to his leaving... he has no excuses.... along with McCant... This does not absolve him form being an A1 **** of a manger..
As there was no chance in hell of the Allams paying Warnock a decent wage, isn't this a classic, moot point. No need for a question mark there, as there is absolutely no way they would have paid him the wage he'd have demanded. Why didn't we get Warnock in? # Ask Daft ****...
