One of the criticisms... (1 Viewer)

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

Of Steven Pressley during the end of his time here was that he too often put his arms around the players following poor performances instead of kicking them up the arse.

Does anyone feel that this might be the same with Mowbray?

Personally I thought today was better than the last two games, but I question the manager when he's playing his favourites over merit, and giving them holidays when we should be preparing for battle.

Something just feels up to me, especially with the whole Jim O'Brien thing. Someone pointed out on another thread that he might not have been one to settle for lack lustre efforts and therefore clashed with Mowbray's more sideways approach.

I feel dejected at the moment. I know the season isn't over, but it feels like it's slipping away from us far too quickly. I think it would be a disaster if we didn't reach the playoffs personally, looking at where we were before Christmas.

 

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[Gazolba]

One of the key skills of a manager is knowing when to encourage and when to criticize. In general, studies have proven encouragement is far more effective. However, criticism when given, should always be in private and never publicly.

 

[Nick]

I don't think anybody expects him to say "Player X was shite today" and single people out.

It is just how he doesn't seem to be watching the same games and reacting to it.

We play way too negative.

 

[EastLancsCov]

I have to wonder what the hell they are doing in training all week. TM and CWR for that matter, bang on about a lack of confidence and that coupled with some lack lustre performances, suggests to me we aren't going to get any better any time soon.
I'm not calling for the manager's head, but I feel that if he was a lesser 'name' a bigger percentage of the support would be up in arms.

 

[Nick]

I have to wonder what the hell they are doing in training all week.

It certainly isn't set pieces (either defending or attacking them).

 

[EastLancsCov]

Turning world beaters into panel beaters it seems. Baffling how they've gone from being so good to so bad. They are letting us down now.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

I'd always disregard completely what they say in public.

When it was obvious Pressley had a problem was when he let the mask slip, and tore into the players in public. That showed a certain break from the cliched manager technique of presenting a united front.

 

[chiefdave]

Something clearly isn't right. Obviously we're on the outside looking in so its hard to say but the drop off in form is unbelievable. This isn't our usual post Xmas slump this is without a doubt relegation form. We'd be in all sorts of trouble if we'd even had an average start to the season.

Are the players who know they are off disinterested? Has Mowbray lost the dressing room? Has someone (JOB?) upset things?

Impossible to tell but clearly something has gone very wrong.

Doesn't make sense to me how someone like MAF keeps getting minutes when others don't. There's players who we've signed to supposedly given us another option that we've barely seen - why are we wasting the wages if we aren't going to play them?

 

[Nick]

I'd always disregard completely what they say in public.

When it was obvious Pressley had a problem was when he let the mask slip, and tore into the players in public. That showed a certain break from the cliched manager technique of presenting a united front.

i don;t think it is just what he says, some of his decisions recently have been bizarre.

 

[Johnnythespider]

Unfortunately I think a lot of them are waiting for the flair players to do something brilliant and win the game for them, for some reason they seem to have lost the knack of pulling together as a team and turning this slump around. More hard work is required and less showboating only to give the ball away.

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[SkyBlue_Bear83]

I didn't have a problem with Pressley protecting or putting an arm round players as such.

What wound me up is when he would try and tell us we played well when we were dog shit.

 

[The Reverend Skyblue]

I would ring Norwich and say to them that they are having Maddison now, his constant diving and fancy tricks are no longer needed, and he wouldn't win a fifty fifty ball against Alan Carr.
Its pretty obvious that unless he starts being a man on the pitch ,instead of a little girl , he won't last five minutes in the Prem.
the club got a great deal for him if it was around the 2.5 million as rumoured

 

[letsallsingtogether]

I'd always disregard completely what they say in public.

When it was obvious Pressley had a problem was when he let the mask slip, and tore into the players in public. That showed a certain break from the cliched manager technique of presenting a united front.

Well to be fair he should say how he feels.
Funny how he got attacked for that and then got attacked the following week for not saying it?
Can't win really.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Well to be fair he should say how he feels.
Funny how he got attacked for that and then got attacked the following week for not saying it?
Can't win really.

I never criticised him for playing to the positives in public though.

Sure... it may have been a bit OTT but you'd have to be a nutter to think that he'd say the same in private to the players what he said in public.

 

[Littlewood CCFC]

i sit in the west stand and i often watch Mowbrays reactions... his reactions matched mine today when a player made a poor pass ( which often was the case today ) he turns around and looks furious shaking his head looking like hes going to powerbomb Clapham! i think hes just protecting the younger players to be honest