GreasyChipBeattie
Well-Known Member
You're a professional footballer who has just missed out on auto promotion because of a late-season blip in results.
Your frustrations are due to a number of reasons, not least the manager's error of judgement at key times during that blip.
You and your team mates galvanise yourselves and 'go again' through the play offs.
You enjoy 2 resounding wins in the semi final before cruelly losing the final and all the riches, sense of achievement, and future opportunities that would have been the reward.
You're desperate to go one further this season and hope the gaffer will tweak things in the summer to make the required difference.
Then, to your surprise, your club's owners decide to make a radical change....
As humans, no matter what our job is, what level our ability, or however much we're paid, within seconds of hearing we have a new boss, we will consider the implications of that change and the potential benefits and drawbacks. There would perhaps be some excitement, some uncertainty and doubtless some pre-judgement of what the future might bring, particularly if we know who the new boss is going to be.
In most cases there would be little to be overly concerned about. In some though, particularly today's version of football, the impact can be dramatic.
We have seen so many times new managers take average squads and produce very good teams, and some turn very good squads into, let's be kind, very average teams.
Sometimes results are quickly achieved, and sometimes not.
Selles, minus the returning loan players that finished the previous season, came into the job with a really good squad and... a really tough task!
He simply HAD to hit the ground running. Sadly, he didn't, and the consequences are there for all to see.
The players know better than anyone else how close they were last season, and what was required to be in pole position come August 9th, and that wasn't a complete overhaul of approach, playing style, tactics etc.
For that to work, it would have required a massive change of player type, culture, thought processes, training, increased fitness and above all motivation to get those who'd already been within touching distance of their personal and team goals ready to go again.
Whether down to budgets, management style or new 'modern' methods, that was never going to happen, and such is the instant-gratification type society that we live in, it will be at best a bumpy ride until another almost inevitable change will take place, or as unlikely as it currently seems, someone, somewhere, somehow will pull off something of a masterstroke to recover the situation.
Problem is, someone, somewhere, somehow needs to know what that something is and sadly, although we may well see a number of playing staff added before the wretched window slams shut, I don't think that will be the answer. Did I mention earlier something about pre-judgement?
Your frustrations are due to a number of reasons, not least the manager's error of judgement at key times during that blip.
You and your team mates galvanise yourselves and 'go again' through the play offs.
You enjoy 2 resounding wins in the semi final before cruelly losing the final and all the riches, sense of achievement, and future opportunities that would have been the reward.
You're desperate to go one further this season and hope the gaffer will tweak things in the summer to make the required difference.
Then, to your surprise, your club's owners decide to make a radical change....
As humans, no matter what our job is, what level our ability, or however much we're paid, within seconds of hearing we have a new boss, we will consider the implications of that change and the potential benefits and drawbacks. There would perhaps be some excitement, some uncertainty and doubtless some pre-judgement of what the future might bring, particularly if we know who the new boss is going to be.
In most cases there would be little to be overly concerned about. In some though, particularly today's version of football, the impact can be dramatic.
We have seen so many times new managers take average squads and produce very good teams, and some turn very good squads into, let's be kind, very average teams.
Sometimes results are quickly achieved, and sometimes not.
Selles, minus the returning loan players that finished the previous season, came into the job with a really good squad and... a really tough task!
He simply HAD to hit the ground running. Sadly, he didn't, and the consequences are there for all to see.
The players know better than anyone else how close they were last season, and what was required to be in pole position come August 9th, and that wasn't a complete overhaul of approach, playing style, tactics etc.
For that to work, it would have required a massive change of player type, culture, thought processes, training, increased fitness and above all motivation to get those who'd already been within touching distance of their personal and team goals ready to go again.
Whether down to budgets, management style or new 'modern' methods, that was never going to happen, and such is the instant-gratification type society that we live in, it will be at best a bumpy ride until another almost inevitable change will take place, or as unlikely as it currently seems, someone, somewhere, somehow will pull off something of a masterstroke to recover the situation.
Problem is, someone, somewhere, somehow needs to know what that something is and sadly, although we may well see a number of playing staff added before the wretched window slams shut, I don't think that will be the answer. Did I mention earlier something about pre-judgement?
