Caesium137
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Nail on the head I think Viv.It’s the players. Let’s be honest. Some of them are going to be working under their fourth manager(Howson’s sixth, McNair’s fifth). They’re getting managers sacked at a rate of one a season. It’s madness.
Maybe when Wilder said after Preston that some of them had reached the end of their time at the club, he was actually talking quite a lot of sense. I always thought he’d shift a few regulars, not the squad men(those who actually left). Maybe that’s where some of the tension came from. He wanted to clear it out but wasn’t allowed to do it. I don’t think he meant Peltier and Payero, I think he meant McNair, Dijksteel et al. Who knows though.
The next manager needs to root these players out and instil some pride and professionalism. Playing when you’re 0-2 or 0-3 down, it’s not good enough. And completely unsustainable.
There is almost zero leadership, meaness, fight, aggression, power or will to win through the squad, and definitely through the spine of the team.
We are a small, weak team who fold under pressure and often seem to concede goals in multiples playing like rabbits in headlights.
They are nowhere near as good as they think they are.
There is a malaise in the playing squad, we are like a mini-poundshop version of what Man U have been doing for the last few years.
They all need an absolute rocket and someone on the pitch that they fear, respect, play for and won't let down.
I'd only keep about three of that starting XI from todays game currently, and they are all loans FFS.