I'm in no shape or form "manager out!!!" and won't be as long as we win a game in January (if we don't it might be an unsurmountable challenge for even the best of managers if he's young and inexperienced, but lets worry about that another day).
I do have questions however and I guess others do to, so lets take a "lets not kill or worship the guy and just tell the concerns and general things you'd like to understand".
I want to know the following things:
1. All sports science tell us that starting U21 players repeatedly (often twice a week) over a few months is a very dangerous game to play. Last season our Jack Hinshelwood suffered the most typical "overplaying non-full grown bodies" injuries - a stress fracture.
Regardless if his current injury has anything to do with overplaying - what is the reasoning for letting Jack Hinshelwood play more than anyone else in our opening 11 fixtures while also playing for the English U21 team?
2. We have heard you talk about the team needing to have a positive body language and control their emotions and reactions towards each other.
From a pedagogical and coaching perspective, whats the benefit of telling players to be controlled and disciplined while you yourself pick up cards and suspensions for losing control and discipline? Is there some sort of idea backing this up? I've studied some coaching and never heard "behave the opposite of how you want your players to behave", so I'm genuinely curious.
3. I understand there is a process. I do get that.
I'm not telling you to give away all the details - no manager would - but I would like to here if you could care to elaborate on the process and provide some insight to this process so that I can better understand it and perhaps show more trust in it? Like... what are the core areas we're targeting to improve? Feel free to be vague; just some sort of answer other than "trust the process" or "we haven't done what we want to do yet".
4. I mentioned Jack Hinshelwood before but there's another player I'd like to ask a somewhat similar question about: Danny Welbeck.
Graham Potter and Roberto De Zerbi were quite keen on managing and limiting the game time of Danny Welbeck in order to keep him fit.
I'd like to know if you think those were wrong in doing that given you started Welbz in our first 13 PL games, including days after he had been transported by ambulance to a hospital due to injury? Is the increased game time for Welbeck due to physical tests saying it'll be fine or is it simply a decision made because he's too good to rest?
5. We've had a taller and physically stronger setup this season than in recent times and we're neither scoring nor creating particularly many chances (not conceding many either tbf) from set pieces. Is this... a work in progress to be polished once others things improve a little bit more or is it something we've prioritised but not managed to do well yet?
I do have questions however and I guess others do to, so lets take a "lets not kill or worship the guy and just tell the concerns and general things you'd like to understand".
I want to know the following things:
1. All sports science tell us that starting U21 players repeatedly (often twice a week) over a few months is a very dangerous game to play. Last season our Jack Hinshelwood suffered the most typical "overplaying non-full grown bodies" injuries - a stress fracture.
Regardless if his current injury has anything to do with overplaying - what is the reasoning for letting Jack Hinshelwood play more than anyone else in our opening 11 fixtures while also playing for the English U21 team?
2. We have heard you talk about the team needing to have a positive body language and control their emotions and reactions towards each other.
From a pedagogical and coaching perspective, whats the benefit of telling players to be controlled and disciplined while you yourself pick up cards and suspensions for losing control and discipline? Is there some sort of idea backing this up? I've studied some coaching and never heard "behave the opposite of how you want your players to behave", so I'm genuinely curious.
3. I understand there is a process. I do get that.
I'm not telling you to give away all the details - no manager would - but I would like to here if you could care to elaborate on the process and provide some insight to this process so that I can better understand it and perhaps show more trust in it? Like... what are the core areas we're targeting to improve? Feel free to be vague; just some sort of answer other than "trust the process" or "we haven't done what we want to do yet".
4. I mentioned Jack Hinshelwood before but there's another player I'd like to ask a somewhat similar question about: Danny Welbeck.
Graham Potter and Roberto De Zerbi were quite keen on managing and limiting the game time of Danny Welbeck in order to keep him fit.
I'd like to know if you think those were wrong in doing that given you started Welbz in our first 13 PL games, including days after he had been transported by ambulance to a hospital due to injury? Is the increased game time for Welbeck due to physical tests saying it'll be fine or is it simply a decision made because he's too good to rest?
5. We've had a taller and physically stronger setup this season than in recent times and we're neither scoring nor creating particularly many chances (not conceding many either tbf) from set pieces. Is this... a work in progress to be polished once others things improve a little bit more or is it something we've prioritised but not managed to do well yet?
Changed it now!
