jtfev wrote:
From what iv heard it isn't the coach you want rid of it some of your players
Millward has tried to make your club more professional on and off the field with the players but they don't like it
Something I totally concur with - from elsewhere ragrding is it the Manager or the players:
I think you can only go one way on this - I am a specialist manager and the board above me selected me to deliver a vision and a business in the style they want. That includes sometimes changing philosophy and changing people's thoughts, values and behaviours.
Petulant 'efforts' like on Sunday becuase they dont like what someone is trying to create shows a number of players up in their small minded approach, and they fear the change and they fear committing and failing, personally and emotionally. Appointing a Harrisson or Kear for the reasons stated above is tantamount to saying you want to battle it out to occasionally over achieve in a cup run or make the 8. They will punish the players for performances like yesterday, just like I have spent many an hour doing shuttle runs carrying tackle bags; that will attract the kind of great effort and honest graft but ultimately wont create what Leeds, Huddersfield and Warrington have worked so hard to create from the ground up - You can't do that overnight and you cant shout your way to that, you have to progressively change the way you think about performances and challenge yourself to improve within yourself.
Appointing Ian Milward for three years was the first step to building something for the longer term - Tub thumping motivating and rallying cries are appealing here and there, but ultimately will not grow a management, vision, performance led culture of striving to achieve and improve over time - it will simply result in the management style of "if you always do what you have always done, then you will always have what you have always had".
So, there is a choice to either do as Chelsea or Liverpool have done for short term gain - they appeased the players and got a one off bounce out of it...... (A big bounce I grant you, but a one off bounce non the less)..........
Or you do what Spurs, Everton, Manchester United, Arsenal to an extent and grow something based on your vision and principles over time. I have never met Ian Millward and I dont know what his and Richards vision looks like, so I am not in anyone's pocket on this, but I find it sickening to think that the 'talent' as it were can shamelessly for their own petulance abandon professional pride and do little more than my 4 year old does when he doesnt like something and sulk.
