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Stop pixxing the manager and owner off. Look what happened when you did the same with swan. Let’s see what happens with a clear out and new players in. Train all week with a plan and then on the Saturday do as you please. No manager is accountable for this.
The players have let everyone down.‘Train all week with a plan and then on the Saturday do as you please. No manager is accountable for this. The players have let everyone down.’
Absolutely the players are responsible, but so to is the manager. It’s a results / performance driven business and most managers across every league are judged this way. Apart from that, we don’t know what they do in training all week so we can’t know if they’re ignoring what they’ve been trained to do or not.
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How many of the players did the manager bring in?
6/11 who started at Gateshead had arrived since he was appointed.
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A good coach would give the players freedom to make not only in-play decisions, but also about the tactical approach for each match. This enables the players to grow, take more ownership of their own, and collective performances on the pitch.
Shouting and telling players what they should be doing only leads down the route of being unable to make in-play decisions effectively. Which in turn, undermines their confidence, and ensures that you will never get 100% out of the players.
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It is not just about what the coaches / managers do in the technical area on matchday. What happens in training, in the changing rooms, and behind closed doors is just as important. What they learn during the week will be brought into the match play.
Set the players free, allow them to grow, and they will become better players who make better decisions.
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On match day I would expect and hope they would remonstrate, but doubt at home you would here Cox or Hill bollocking them for going forward I’m sure we would have heard about that.
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If the manager / coach(es) are shouting at the players during the match then the manager / coaches have failed in their respective roles. If the players are coached effectively week on week, the need to constantly shout, instruct, berate the players on match day would be dramatically reduced.
As I mentioned earlier, a good coach would give the players freedom to make not only in-play decisions, but also about the tactical approach for each match. For some reason many managers / coaches are stuck in the 1980’s and seem to believe that they should do all the decision making and thinking for players. Players need to fully understand what the tactics are, and their individual and collective responsibilities. If the players understand this, and are involved in the whole process you will see the players self-manage during the match, and can respond swiftly to in-play developments.
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As I mentioned earlier, a good coach would give the players freedom to make not only in-play decisions, but also about the tactical approach for each match. For some reason many managers / coaches are stuck in the 1980’s and seem to believe that they should do all the decision making and thinking for players.
Interesting – one of the things I notice about Guardiola’s sides is that players don’t necessarily think for themselves because they have to be part of the team system. Or, put another way, individual expression is sacrificed for the greater good.
Of course, I agree with you that the “shouting & bollocking” style of management is an anachronism in the modern world.
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@Ferrite – Pep is a good example of a manager who has successfully merged the older autocratic style with the newer more motivational / emotional style. I suspect the key to success for Pep (apart from a large cheque book) is the fact that his team have bought into the ‘why’, and Pep nurtures his players, allowing them to grow and feel confident of his support.
Something we seldom see these days at GP!
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‘Something we seldom see these days at GP!’
Lol, ‘not arfff!’
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One of the phrases that I have heard way too many times over the years is “They looked good in training” and seeing the team struggle.
You have to ask, what were they doing in training all week? Was it representative of what they are going to face on match day, or was it some simple tasks that made the players look good (unchallenged crosses, unchallenged passing etc.)?
Coaches often try to simplify a single task too much, making the task irrelevant or the relevancy reduced too much. An example could be ‘trying to beat a defender and deliver a cross to a striker who has players defending him. That could be too challenging for some players, so the coach removes the player to beat, or the defenders marking the striker. The player then looks good, he crosses the ball, and the striker meets the cross, burying the ball in the back of the net.
The manager / coach might look at that and say “they look great in training” however, this over simplified task has not taught the players how to cross under pressure, and the striker hasn’t been taught how to create space etc. Matchday comes, and we can’t get the crosses into our strikers, the strikers move like dustbins, we can’t score, lose the match and the manager says, “I didn’t see that coming, they looked good all week”.
In this specific case, practicing how to cross does not produce high action fidelity and is a perfect example of ineffective training.
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@Deereyme66 – Thanks, if you cannot tell, one of my roles in life is elite and performance coach developer for UK Athletics. In fact I am in Birmingham tomorrow for some training and development, and the session theme is “Planning and initiating coach learning and development”. Lots of discussion will be had around the practice continuum, developing resilience, motivation etc.
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Yes, I was aware Daz, via your Twitter account. I would imagine a fair number on here are aware of your role too. All the best for tomorrow – exciting stuff!
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I might pop to Ilkeston on the way home! ;-)
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I might pop to Ilkeston on the way home! ;-)
Clearly you’re not afraid to look success in the face; unlike some of us who are apparently bottlers…innit ;)
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