I was one for giving Dawson more time, but I’ve been very impressed with Rosie from his one game and his press conferences. From what the players are saying, it seems he really made an impression and a difference in just his first two days of training. That’s clear from what Baxter says in the reaction video to Millwall (and it seemed evident from the better defensive performance in the actual game too). Baxter himself comes across very well also.
Really interesting comment from Baxter on first classroom meeting. More like an elite manager meeting which he had experienced at Chelsea.
Good, reassuring read, Tbh though, isn't that pretty much what nearly every team is trying to do these days (with little tweaks to suit their strengths etc)? Having said that, something did look / feel a little different yesterday, even though he'd only had one or two training sessions with them. At the back it seemed at times like the keeper became an extra player rather than just an exit route if there was no other option (we are not the only team to do that though). Maybe it was just that we were that little bit better organised, maybe the instructions (even in that short space of time) were clearer than previously (even than under Daws), maybe it was that Millwall weren't very good on the day (yep, I know, another one - but they looked bang average at best). Keys going forward included that we finally have a new manager in place who has clear ideas, who can communicate them very clearly, and who hopefully will have time to implement them fully so that, as Curtis alludes to, it becomes fully ingrained / second nature to the players and we become an extremely well organised team with everyone knowing exactly what they should be doing, where they should be, etc. We've been missing that. A squad of largely average players then can outperform versus better but less organised players. You see it in the best teams where, as Curtis says, you can almost play blind passes as you know exactly where your team mates are going to be. The WC break is valuable for all teams but is absolutely massive for us given we now have Rosie and his team just come in. As is January where we need that small handful of smart signings to turn us into a team capable of challenging the top. (all probably stating the obvious!)
Interesting comments from Baxter about players been clear about their roles, this after 2 days with the new manager. It does make me wonder just how bad the communication and understanding between Shota and the players actually was. Already a vast improvement , actually looking forward to the rest of the season now.
I wondered about this too…..wtf were they doing before??? This is the absolute basics of football, not some new radical approach
It’s just a sound bite all players say when the new manager comes in I’m sure if you went back to the beginning of Shotas reign a player would say the exact same thing
Interesting,! Thought he was moving back to Wales and had taken up a post with. Welsh club? Speculating now, but maybe it was as simple as walking away from the set up under Shota?
Chazz veers cartoonishly between 100% cynical and 100% trusting depending on the topic/person being discussed. Conspiracy theorists and Allams get trusting Chazz. Acun very much gets Cynical Chazz, as did Adam Pearson. Curious judge of character.
Yawn there you go a nice easy one “Tom Huddlestone is relishing his message. Sidelined and apparently disillusioned under Phelan, the former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder appears a principal beneficiary of the regime change. “The new manager’s been on the training pitch every day, putting a lot of tactical information into us,” he says. “Wherever the ball is on the pitch and whatever system we play we know exactly what is and what isn’t required of us, with and without the ball. With the amount of information he’s put into us there’s no excuses. If you don’t do well now it’s down to a loss of concentration because we know exactly where he wants us to be and when”.
plus there's a common cliche of a new manager bounce makes sense something new excites the subconcious and makes you try harder gotta impress like getting a new relationship question is will it work in longer term outside of the honeymoon period? i hope it does
Tomori from 2017 It's been a brilliant week. From my point of view the attitude from the players has been spot on and we’ve being able to work on a lot of things on the training ground. The big thing for me though is that there are good people at this Club." "Everyone has roles and responsibilities and that’s important. We’ve done a defensive training session on the grass this week, but we need more clean sheets. That was the negative from last weekend. But it’s the whole team that need to contribute I’m flattered posters seem to think I have an effect on what happens tho Players say ****e like that as they don’t want to make out it’s their fault as big Ron always said Players win you things but they also get you the sack!! i hope Liam does well but the fella is a media pro he loved it at Brighton he loved it here he loved it at derby it all means **** all to me he’s a completely inexperienced coach We have a weird squad that’s terribly unbalanced It’s a big job for anyone especially an inexperience coach we still don’t know who was responsible for recruitment in the summer, not that I expect to, do we know if he will have a say in January?? I’ll just give my opinion and keep going to games no matter what division we are in
