Stating the bloody obvious but Wigan players looked gutted and in tears....it clearly meant more than just a contract.. Really beginning to despise a lot of our players
Our players left the pitch smiling thinking that's another £70000 tomorrow in the account for a sunday stroll in the park at Reading despite the fact we are relegated. Says it all really about the lack of any team unity and mismanagement that has evolved at LR since NW left.
No, the disunity and mismanagement started right from the first game in the Prem. Warnock has to take his share of the blame. His share is certainly a fraction of Hughes', but the rot started with his signings (yes, yes, I know he didn't get any money until close to the end of the transfer window, etc, etc.) Let us not think that everything was rosy in the camp when Warnock was sacked.
How the **** did we manage to assemble so many duds? Could we not have done some sort of profiling as part of the recruitment process to identify the type of characters we were in discussions with? You couldn't make it up.
Are we saying that it may of been best to keep our championship winning side intact and not introduce square pegs into round holes ... ? I may of mentioned that at the time The championship players were rubbish Swords ? ... They keep getting promoted ... It was the start of the rot and I agree with Eamon
That's what David Moyes does. He goes to watch so many games and he creates detailed dossiers on players who suit his 'footballing mould' for a relevant task and or position. Nothing is left to chance. He spends months analysing a player's attitude and personality as well as technical ability, fitness, reading of the game and positioning etc, to see if they would fit into his club. He didn't always get it right, no manager can. But I would say he was up there with the best of them in relation to his budget constraints.
Don't think Harold's big on dossiers, what with his self confessed reading age of 4. Big 'un and a little 'un up front will do it, preferably from one of his mates. Mind you, reckon Sparky had dossiers coming out of his arse, but they are not as useful when written by monkeys on acid.
Gross mismanagement by Hughes. Warnock did a great job getting in the right mix of players and characters in the championship. I wouldn't be overly critical of him for the last minute panic shopping spree he went on after the goons left.
I thought this was what Hughes and Rigg claimed to do!! Don't understand how they took on Boswinga if they did. You can tell he doesn't have the right attitude; and even our own fans in Dubai talked about his elitism and how he shunned others - not a team player clearly!!! Bullshit baffles brains sometimes!!
Motivational skills? Yes, based on his dour public demeanour, it's hard to imagine Hughes as a particularly inspiring leader. But that's what you're supposed to get with Redknapp, right? His fabled man-management skills are so strong as to more than mitigate for the chaos caused by his borderline illiteracy and his dyscalculia. Sadly for us, however, his inability to inspire our players has shown this one supposed strength of Redknapp's to be merely a myth concocted by his mates in the media. Decent for Spurs, maybe. Terrible for us - and getting worse. Slagging off players with which we probably stuck for the whole of next season seems a particularly bad idea. Never his fault. Excuses at the ready. Hinting heavily that yet more spending is the answer to a problem that he doesn't even seem to understand. I'd love to be wrong. But I think we've only seen the tip of iceberg in terms of the disaster that is Redknapp. Fernandes seems to have been duped yet again.
Cheers TIME, learned a new word there. Although looking at it again the simple substitution of 'calcu' for 'lex' should have been a clue. Looks like we'll be wasting another year with Harold, unless he does the decent thing and walks when we are nowhere near contention at Christmas.
