Another defeat. All the pundits are thinking it but won’t say it: the players have given up on Manning. There is a distinct lack of effort and willingness to play. The players hold all the aces.
Surely it's a lack of ability, confidence and organisation? Edit: who's our Bannan, i.e. Box-Box? or tough battling midfielder? where's Tettey or Francis or Safri? McLean who's played poor? Forson, Mattson, Topic? None of seem to have the intelligence to stay with a player around the pitch, i.e. what Park Ji-Sung did to Pirlo (?) many years ago in the ECL. No matter what the manager says More handbags at dawn between Duffy & McLean on the pitch
Several players aren’t stepping in as they are supposed to. Fisher and Schlupp sitting too deep. McLean has been screaming at Darling and McConville for sitting back rather than stepping in to the opposition, leaving gaps that McLean and Topic can’t cover.
