Come on, it never matters what a manager says, if your team loses enough it'll piss you off. Being passionate or "truthful" about a defeat, blaming misfortune, blaming the ref, blaming the divet near the corner flag, praising the opposition etc etc... Manager's can't win, unless they do actually win, then whatever they say is gold-dust. Guaranteed some of the ones who hate what he says were the ones saying how refreshing his approach is before, and some of the ones still insisting his approach is refreshing will hate him for it soon if the losses keep stacking up!
If you make a mistake and it is costly you should apologise to your colleagues/team mates etc and do everything you can to improve and put matters right to make things better. My concerns with the current regime is the public criticism and indeed humiliation of individuals. As a senior manager of over 25 years being critical of people in public does nothing to boost morale or confidence nor does it help the manager to bond everyone into his way of thinking/working. It only lends itself to divisions. Yes everything Paulo Di Canio says is right but think how Ji feels this morning after the BBC pundits on MOTD took great delight in highlighting his abysmal attempt at a header all because the manager publicly criticized him. Doesn't matter what anyone thinks of Ji it will do nothing for his self esteem or confidence. All Di Canio had to say in his post match interview is we lost the game to poor defending and costly individual errors and then if he felt it necessary slate those responsible back in the dressing room. I have a lot of time for Di Canio and have confidence with the players he has brought in to make the season a success but I do fear it could also end in disaster if he continues his public criticism of individuals causing disharmony in the dressing room and an unwillingness to play for him
For as long as I have been coming on here a large proportion have criticized the managers for not being honest or frank in their post match interviews, blaming their run of luck, not being specific enough, the referee, the line linesman in fact blaming anything other than their own teams shortcomings. Now PDC is doing exactly what we have wanted a manager to do he is being criticised by some who seem to swoon over the media pundits and their comments. If these pundits had any guts then they should have tried managing or running a club for a full season at the level they are commenting on, being an ex pro does not cut it for me, regardless of who they have played under. Roy Keane, Mick MacCarthy, Graham Souness or Niall Quinn give a far better assessment of a situation than Mary Poppins, Mark Lawrenson, Garth Crooks et al ever will. You don;t always get what you want...............well you have with regards to PDC and post match interviews.......
I'm happy with the public criticism. If the players are to improve they need to take a look at themselves. Public criticism will only serve to alienate a set of **** players who would be relegation candidates anyway, or galvanise them into some tangible action on the pitch. Lets roll with it and see what happens... we have been relegation fodder for two seasons in a row. We certainly need 3 high quality players before the deadline to give us a chance of a top 10 finish or IMO it will be a another bottom half struggle. If it is a bottom half struggle I will continue to support the club just as I have for the last 40 odd years.
Why can`t he come out and give an honest opinion .Do we always have to worry that he might hurt someone`s feelings .PDC has fire in his belly if the lily livered amongst them can`t hack it then they should grow a pair . He has a job to do like the players have . They don`t work in an environment where they have to mind there Ps and Qs they work in an environment where men are men and boys don`t exist . I have heard many a player come out and say they or the team were pant`s today . Then when coach come`s out and say`s it, you get people saying ooooh he shouldn`t have said that how will that make the player or players feel .Hopefully we have more men than boys in our squad .
Open criticism is just that, there for all to see. With all the public to view some of these so called professionals may pull there fingers outta their arse.
Being a manager of a football team and a business is not the same . If I worked on a production line and my manager was shouting or hurling abuse at me in front of everybody then rightly so I would not be a happy chappie and tell him so ,as it would be counter productive . If I was a footballer and he was criticising me in public on the field or wherever I would be thinking **** me I had better pull my socks up here or I wont be playing next game .You cant compare sporting managers to other management surely ?
It's not like Di Canio is coming out and saying player x played ****e and player y isn't good enough He is just talking about errors. Doesn't every manager do that?! O'Shea won't have a problem with criticism and am sure he'll come back better for it. Ji won't and that's because he's a bottler. I was in support of playing Ji, but to duck a header because you're scared someone is gonna challenge you for it is unbelievable. Ji deserves the stick. It's time for him to show that he actually has an ounce of fight in him. Otherwise he'll not be playing much this season
