I think that sort of thing often happens, but I don't think it's the case here, he's not just playing badly, he's become completely invisible and nothing he tries seems to come off, his confidence just looks to have completely abandoned him. Whatever his genuine price tag, he's got far more ability than we've seen in the past few games.
Well lets look at what I said - he has not been playing well - I think he will know this himself already - appears to be lazy in parts of the game - Maybe if he read that he would not agree but possibly it might make him think about how he is on the pitch and gee him up a biIn another post I said that he was getting less confident every time he played so he maybe needed to be dropped until he has got his confidence back on the training field. Sorry but I don't think I have said anything terrible, surely if you do anything in front of a public audience then you have to expect people are going to have an opinion. I go to the games and I shout encouragement and cheer the team on. I have never and would never shout anything abusive and have given Stewart encouragement but the forum is a series of conversations and it would be unrealistic to expect everyone to be sugary sweet all the time. I can't think that anything in my posts would be counter productive to any great extent. They have all played a good level of football since being kids do you honestly think they have never heard anyone criticising them before. As for it being counter productive - yes I think shouting abuse and negative comments to him during the game would be counter productive and if he chooses to read this message board maybe it would have that effect but that is why players should be told not to read forums - they are called "fans forums".
Maybe, but I think he's shown enough times he is capable of doing brilliant things. In the spells you mentioned he wasn't just good he was unplayable. He was making a goal every game for the first 3 or 4 weeks. His performances since then look like a different player.
Its a fair comment to make that CS has not been as effective as he could have been in recent weeks and there is a reason behind this, that NB needs to find and fast in order to help him. My recent observations of him are as follows. 1, He appears to have very little confidence in himself. 2, His whole body language during matches seems to show that he isn,t interested. 3, In the past 5 matches, he has made less than 10 tackles after losing possession or being faced with the oncoming right back, which leaves Daws far too exposed, I don,t expect him to tackle like Mckenna or Evans but he gets to within a yard of an opponent then stops. Please watch him if you think I,m wrong but it is an honest observation. Regarding the 3 points made, where do the answers lie. A few reserve games where he can be given a free role to switch sides whenever he chooses and licence to play as a secondary striker to boost his confidence. Sessions with a sports psychologist if thats what it needs to help him mentally and physically. Maybe he,s wary of getting clattered in a tackle and injuring his recently healed knee, but his long term career wil suffer, if he can,t or won,t put in a tackle now and again, we need to defend from.the front and that requires him to overcome any fears he might and get stuck in, Winning 1 tackle out wide and then racing in towards goal and smashing one in past the keeper might be all needs, but he has to start putting a foot in first.
There's rarely a heavy tackle in reserve games and banging in a few goals would boost his confidence, the only problem is that we have hardly any reserve games nowadays. I think we just need to drop him to to the bench and hope that he wants prove himself worthy of a start again.
I know we have a lot of youngsters in the reserves, but if we're lacking games for them could we combine the reserves and U18s squads and mix the teams up a bit so they were even and play against each other?
Maybe a few friendlies behind closed doors. Can give adebola and simpson a run out at the same time and try out lots more trialists in the hope of finding a free gem amongst them. Alledgedly Jason Koumas is startin a trial with us tomorrow
If you go through life not being able to take criticism you are not gonna get very far. By criticism I of course mean of the constructive sort, everyone has room for improvement and sometimes that needs to be pointed out by other people. I get critical comments on my Uni work for example, but I don't sulk about it, I use it to improve on my next assignment.
If your lecturer shouted "You're **** Manuel you ****er!" in front of all the other students every time you made an error, would you be more or less likely to feel relaxed and confident?
No, of course it wouldn't. Notice I mentioned 'constructive criticism' in my post, which is what most people on these boards are using when talking about Stewart.
I'm not sure your point about your tutor's constructive criticism of your coursework and Stewart's attitude to being barracked bear any relevance to each other. Good luck with your studies.
It is, it's all constructive criticism to aid improvement. Different situations, but with the same aim in mind. Constructive is the key word, and it bears relevance to many situations. And thanks, just 3 months to go now
If you look at the follow on post the defence was of people criticising his performances on here, not of people bollocking him at a game. I don't think anyone has been defending people bollocking players at a game. Take McLean as an example, I think it's fair to say that he's the player I criticise most on here, but at games he's probably had more praise and encouragement from me than anybody else because there's never any doubt that he's giving it everything so it deserves recognising.
