An interesting read.... https://www.coachesvoice.com/cv/grant-mccann-interview-west-ham-hull-peterborough-doncaster/
I just wish I had put our house on us getting relegated. You could see it from a mile away. Stubborn or what.
Good insight into the guys psyche, a good read - nice touch from Ralph Hassenhuttl to go to the trouble of finding GMs number to commiserate after the Wigan debacle, this despite suffering a mullering himself.
He was our best manager in over half a century and in hindsight it’s good he was able to leave here with his head held high on a positive, rather than being sacked for poor performance. Even if it was harsh at the time.
Shows a bit of class to admit that he should have been sacked when we were relegated, but if he could see that professional footballers had just given up and were downing tools in order to avoid injury he should have been dealing with it, which he didn't. Can't knock him for our promotion season or for bringing in 'characters' to change the culture. Hope that he's successful in the future but he left us where he found us so we didn't really progress as a team under him.
Good read, I suspect that no matter how we'd played once we were in that decline that we'd have been relegated, esp when you factor in comments he makes about players giving up and not wanting to get injured to risk a move.
He cleaned house and brought in players who are still part of our push up the table two seasons on. I'd say that's decent.
For the support he had from the owners in terms of budget I'd say he did a decent job too. Even the season we got relegated we were flirting with the playoffs until we sold Bowen and Grosicki without replacements.
An interesting & honest insight into a career. I never really warmed to him as our Manager but he brought us our first Title in my lifetime so fair play to him. I think I called for his head after the abysmal relegation season but didn’t stretch as far as referring to him as McCunt as some McCunts still do.
He certainly wasn't the worst manager we ever had, and credit to Ehab for keeping him on after relegation, and him getting us back promoted. In hindsight, he probably would have done better than Shota turned out, but I guess Acun quickly realised that.
Not sure about that. Think he's too rigid tactically and the Us vs them thing he instilled between the club, fans and media won't have been Acun's vision for 1 family and re-engagement of the supporter base. We had players refusing to even speak to the media under grant, remember.
We only had Plan A = give the ball to Kamil, he'll hack up the left wing & cross it for Jarrod to score Worked great until Jan when thanks to Papa Allam selling Kamil & Jarrod, we still only had Plan A but without anyone who could cross from the left wing or anyone who could get in the box to get on the end of it!!!
