So what the **** is wrong with them then?
Explain their collective lack of fight or even vague interest.
You are correct Col, Beales treacherous behaviour will have affected certain players. You buy into a coaches philosophy, his style of play, his ideas. He then goes and you have to try do it again with a different guy, with different ideas. Loanees will always have a different mindset and it doesn't help when half your team is made up of them. I presume Clarke salter and especially Balugun joined because of Beale. The loanees were most likely persuaded by Beale also.
Some of our owned players just aren't good enough for anything but low to mid table championship football. Theres certainly not one single player who could hack it in the Premier league that's for sure.
Our youth set up seems to me, pretty poor. We are even loaning players out to non league teams which doesn't really bode well for our future in this division. We persevere with the likes of Shodipo but what's the end game with him, when will he be able to cut the mustard? Bettache, eventually moved on! Didn't someone think he wasn't going to make the grade by now? Duke McKenna, always lively and energetic loaned out so the evergreen Adomah can prolong his career. We aren't developing our own players and the one lad, despite many reservations from some, plays one game and then is dropped for 3. Make no mistake, when your team lacks passion and desire, even effort, you need a catalyst to inspire that from others. Armstrong would be the first name on my team sheet for that reason alone. I always say to the lads (at every level) that I work with, if you're having a poor game, you're passing is off kilt then the only way to make up for it is to improve your work rate, fight for every ball, don't stop moving, chase down, run your socks off and come off the pitch knowing you have given it everything.
