If my job is on the line then no bollocking is pointless. That liability is stealing a wage. He needs telling. Coyle and his merry men need a reality check.
Why do we have to go one up top? Let’s see Burstow and Pedro up top together and see what they can both do in a role that suits both properly. 5-3-2, 4-4-2, whatever. We ought to try something different. And Coyle needs to be sent for a break, we’d be better off starting the match with 10 men than with him in the team on his current consistently deteriorating form.
We really could do with getting at least something from this game, even a draw would be a step forward. I can see a one or two changes because of the quick turnaround of games, Drameh in for Coyle, Simons in for Slater or Puerta (the latter because of fatigue).
I find the idea of needing to give Slater a bollocking for his miss quite funny. What's Slater going to say "Ah yeah cheers gaff, I hit the ball planning to sky it but now that you've told me that was wrong next time I'll try to get it in the goal"? Surely better to either run drills to improve technique (as it's not just Slater who has fluffed his lines in this situation, Puerta also comes to mind, and Longman), or change the system so you have different players in the more advanced positions. Yelling at a player for an unintentional error (as opposed to say, switching off and not tracking a runner) seems rather pointless.
And while it's nice to reminiss in the 1990s and for some on here even that's still too 'modern'. The world keeps turning.
Kids devoid of confidence. He isn't alone. Slating them does nothing positive, Just the typical city 'support' trying to piss on it's own shoes as ever.
See Baz has called a "spade a spade" in the build up to this, with seemingly no consideration to the connotation. Classy. Maybe we should be avoiding the '****er in the woodpile' when it comes to January transfer business too? HDM I'll stay tuned.
And footballers. My point was we were taught very early on the Uefa C course that you don't do 'drills' with players. The idea that you would have kids, or even adults, queuing up to practice something is poor. Instead just play football. Everything should be game related and fluid. The word drill was banned. I thought an oracle like Syd would have known that.
Massively critcising someone when the teams struggling like it is Just doesnt work Its quite basic human psychology
Don't City have a 'no blame policy'? You know...$hit happens....Sadly we've got the 'ten bob bits' and we've had it for a while.
