Our players have forgotten the basics of their game as they've been untaught by the last two coaches and Monks mates imo.
Basics are learned through repetition, repetition, repetition, on the training paddock, basics like ball skills, positioning, awareness and match play. It is now evident that these basics have been lost through poor coaching over a season and a half, at least.
We've heard grumblings from the players about training for a few seasons now but I put this down to them being 'affected'. It turns out their gripes may well have been legitimate and justified.
Basic skills have been eroded since Monks mates got their claws into the team and has contuned since then. Players individually have lost their muscle memory, automon responses to risk and danger. Players have to think about what they are doing as nothing is automatic to them any more. This slows their reaction time and ability to read and respond to any given situation, mistakes creep in, goals are conceded, confidence goes and games are easily lost. We've all witnessed this.
This is what's happened, imo, for the last season and more players skills have been eroded, their basic footballing skills washed away and under the last two coaches in particular the team has finally caved in on it self as its rotting foundations cant support it any more.
Its going to take time to repair our broken players and rebuild the team, time we don't have so unless Clement comes with a bunch of battle hardened loanees; because no player is going to want to come here otherwise, in tow then I don't think he'll have the time to turn things around and save us from the inevitable drop. 11 games ago he'd have had the time to do something, now he doesn't. what a waste of 11 games. The players Clement has inherited were good enough to stay in the prem 11 games ago, now they are utterly lost.
