Or is it the players ?

[Pale Rider]

On 02/03/2020 at 17:08, Jackie Sewell said:

We have too many players not getting the basics right. There are continual mistakes all over the field. Too many players seem incapable of receiving a pass, controlling it, keeping the ball if necessary, or passing it to a teammate. Exceptions are Bannan, Lee, Fletch ( & Dave). And now Windass, Modern Championship teams always have players who can do these things well. Most of these players we've never heard of. I'm sure all the teams we've played this year have been told to press us and we'll panic.Because most of our players do. So when Monk says his methods work well in training, but not in games, it;s easy to understand because we haven't the players to play a fluid passing game, or play out from the back. So what is Monk supposed to do. The only option is to hoof it. 

Bannan has been pants for almost every game during this bad run, Lee invisible in some performances and if we’re planning on relying on Big Dave it’s almost certainly game over. Don’t know why you judge these any better at all. 

[dorian gray]

14 hours ago, kendoddsdadsdogsdead said:

It really doesn't matter who is picked, if a player cannot find his team mate from 5 yards, or fail to track a runner or not put a tackle in !!!!.

 

Monk does not tell his players to do the above, and interestingly, in one of his first pre match press conferences, he stated that he wanted the players to react during the game and adjust accordingly, giving them the freedom to change and adapt as the game developed.

 

It seems that some players cannot do this, which has an adverse effect and has produced the dire results recently. 

 

I do not hold with the belief that it is not the players who are to blame. They are professional footballers, who should be able, in game, to adapt to what us in front of them. Sticking rigidly to and playing like robots is not the managers fault, albeit, a certain amount of tactical awareness and team set up is necessary, players have the responsibility of implementing and influencing the style of play on the pitch.

 

We have, on paper, a decent Championship squad, but constant individual errors, compound any good that we try and achieve. 

 

they maybe decent 'on paper'.

but they're past it 'on grass'.