TWS manager Grayson has banned his players from using Twitter after one of their lot gave out information about an injury, should Pearson ban our lads from using the site in case they spill the beans on anything? Personally I wouldn't be too bothered about them using it as news has a habit of getting out anyway.
The ban at TWS is completely over the top, I like reading what the players are up to, so long as they don't tweet anything that embarrasses the club, then I don't see any issue.
If I was a manager then I would ban it for any football talk remotely to do with Hull City but let them chat about Barcelona / music / computer games etc
NO. Just tell the players to keep all club matters IN HOUSE. Grayson is annoyed with his player and quite right but to ban it is silly.
I really don't understand Grayson's problem with Somma revealing he was injured, this is what he put "It is club policy with any social networks that players are banned from leaking any information. It was confirmed on Saturday morning that he had done his cruciate ligament, which is a massive blow to the club and the player. "It shouldn't have come out in that manner. It should have been left for me to sort out, so from now on all players will be banned from using that sort of network. "We had a strict rule and regulations halfway through last season and I wanted the news about Davide's injury to come out in the right manner. "There are some people who should have known the outcome of the scan before others. If any players break the ban from now on there will be major implications." How is Somma revealing an injury on twitter that big a deal? unless they wanted him to wait until they got someone in since clubs/players/agents now might try and get more out of them as they need a replacement. Do clubs often not tell anyone of injuries for weeks if they can get away with it? Actually Bullard and Fulham springs to mind
No what else am i meant to do at work. In all seriousness I think twitter very soon will become moderated very carefully if not band by all managers. I like how you can track what footballers are up to etc makes them feel more like real people.
Unless players are stupid the must realise anything the say on there is seen by the public. They just need to use the same rules they do when they let players talk to the press.
Wonderful news, that won't go down well with the leeds players, nice way to turn the squad against you Grayson, they won't like being dictated to and treat like children. Might be worth investing in him being the 1st manager sacked now the squad thinks he's a ****........
Instead of banning it, if he's worried about people taking advantage of it he should have started getting the players to use it during the season to put out false information. Imagine McLean coming home from training on a Wednesday night ahead of a big playoff deciding game saying how he was gutted he'd injured Stewart and he was out for the game at the weekend. The opposition start tailoring their game preparation around us having no pace in the midfield, only to find out on Saturday that Stewart was fine all along and their game plan defensively is messed up. Or saying that Hobbs is out and we're going to have to play Chester and Cooper (I know he's out on loan now), the opposition think we're going to be lacking height so they play at least one bigger guy and plan to put crosses into them instead of two nippier players. Again, Saturday comes, Hobbs plays and their more direct style doesn't work how they wanted it to.
That's a great plan!! Just a shame cameras are on the training ground nowadays I think Grayson banning his players from this is just something he's doing to implement his authority - last season he banned players from snoods and gloves, to give Leeds the 'hard man' look about them. Quite obviously that didn't come to anything
Good idea Though does this fall under 'ungentlemanly conduct' which i'm pretty sure there is a law against in the game. Not sure though
As you'd only be doing it for big games (and not everytime) you'd just close the training ground to the press that week citing the importance of keeping preparations in house. The tweet appears from a reserve player, you 'suspend' the player for the rest of the week pending internal action. Don't see how it can be against the rules given how many internationals are reported injured midweek and then play for their club again at the weekend.
