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  1. Improving players

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    7 minutes ago, Cowshed said:

    People in fight flight are generally not reading anything Dave. The parasympathetic nervous system post fight/flight might help you read a text book.

     

    Nope. Struggling with that one as well. 

    I think the point being alluded to is that the belief is that Manning is one of these new “textbook” coaches where everything is based on theory rather than experience, magnets on the whiteboard as it were.

    A lot of this comes from coaches like Pep being put on a plinth as a new football management god without the acceptance that he’s made to look world beating because money is no object when acquiring players. With no disrespect to Rotherham, would a Pep type coach be able to go in and get them promoted with a very limited budget.

    Having learnt some of of his trade in the City group of clubs, it’s clear that he is a disciple of that type of coaching, brilliant if you’ve got academies full of the brightest and best, but not with an inherited squad of arguably 3 managers worth of signings. 

    I’m not sure that academy coaches necessarily are tactically astute enough to immediately make the transition to management, especially in the Championship, that is not to say they won’t, but they’ve got to learn their trade lower down. Managers like Johnson (Snr), Cotterell, and Pearson all did the dirty work before they came to use and were adept to various levels of success in getting a team out of a collection of odds and sods. I don’t think Manning has this ability, that’s not to say he won’t, but I’m not sure that the Championship is the best place to learn it.

     

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  2. So, Where are we with Liam

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    34 minutes ago, Barrs Court Red said:

    I want to go all in.  Back him heavily in the summer, let’s see how this plays out.

    NOT another flip flop please.  Let’s see this direction through.  

    Then this recreates problems we’ve had in the past, players brought in to play a certain manager’s way on lengthy contracts become spare parts should we decide that this head coach is better with a PowerPoint than being tactically astute and we go down a different route - again…

    I’ve seen sparks of something and at times we’ve played well, but you’ve got to look at the trend, and the trend is not great.

    His post match yesterday was enough for me, when you are criticising the players and openly questioning whether they can learn, when he clearly made yet more selection errors and then just threw on anyone on the bench that could kick a ball in the 2nd half almost as an American Football Hail Mary, but failed to accept any responsibility tells me all I need to know. He might be a great coach at junior and U21 level where he would not be questioned, but at this level you are questioned regularly and he appears to have no answer or idea other to churn out buzzwords or now throw others under the bus. This experiment has not worked and best to end it before more longer term damage is done

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  3. Sheffield Wednesday away match thread

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    7 minutes ago, bcfcnick said:

    Kal Naismith was spot-on with his observations.  I think he'll make a very good manager after retirement.   Just a pity he's not available as I always think we play better with him in the side. He may make the occasional mistake but never shies away from having the ball and trying something positive.  As he said today, aside from being slow to react, it looked like players didn't show for the ball or want the ball.  

    Naismith and King caretaker management duo???

  18. Sheffield Wednesday away match thread

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    1 minute ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

    Heading for 23 points from 19 games.

    Real progress guys, real progress.

    :clap::clapping:

    Yep. There will be some that will say that he’s not got the players to play the type of football he wants to play, but you have to get the best out of what you’ve got, and I’m not sure Manning has the ability to do that. I was buying into what I was seeing but this is really poor and is a bit of a regularity at present. I see that Millwall pressed the button on their version of plastic Pep, might not be the worst idea.

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