Our Coach recently awarded League One top guy, but seems cannot motivate a bunch of higher than averagely paid footballers. It seems on or off the pitch. At the moment sliding one way only. Loose 3 or 4 more and depending on others (more ambitious?) maybe end up down to about 11th? City fan for the last 50+ years and been through all the ups and downs but there seems to be no leadership at the moment, just excuses standing in front of the camera after the latest defeat. Wish I could see a way out, and I wish no family man to lose his means of income, but nothing is changing! Others around us are fighting for points. What are City's Management doing? Anyone?
We have two more weeks of Saturday/Tuesday fixtures, then we've got a reasonably luxurious one match per week run-in. McCann needs to reset his thinking and get squad buy-in for that thinking - to get through the next two weeks when the players are knackered, then to find a way of being at our most effective playing once a week. Whether he is capable of that I don't know (he didn't do much of a reset job during last Spring's lockdown) but we can't keep going along as we are - the players seemingly lost faith in the high tempo system last night for the first time, which must be setting off alarm bells somewhere in his cranium. I doubt McCann will be sacked but he needs to swallow his pride a bit, get Byrne being a positive force again and find a way to beat the relatively lowly teams we are playing in the next 6-8 weeks.
We are 'at our most effective playing once a week'? When did that formula become an option in English Football?
Fear not he'll have plenty of time to put wrong the mistakes of this season during next season .. In league 1 .. mind you o e would have thought he may have tried that last season as well ?
If we don't get naught this year, Grant could at least set up a Jerusalema Challenge against Scunny & Grimsby...we might just win it but who knows.
