ian1964 10,461 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill 13,717 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 When your manager and players repeatedly make public statements that they’re “hurting” you can be sure of only two things. They’re bullshitting you and they’ve no idea what to do next. This is absolutely the last thing I wanted to hear from Gerrard today. As much as I want him to succeed, this is as depressing as it’s insulting. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaffer 1,665 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 31 minutes ago, Bill said: When your manager and players repeatedly make public statements that they’re “hurting” you can be sure of only two things. They’re bullshitting you and they’ve no idea what to do next. This is absolutely the last thing I wanted to hear from Gerrard today. As much as I want him to succeed, this is as depressing as it’s insulting. This is where the manager needs help. If the club is serious about success it needs to help develop the manager as much as the players. I like Gerrard but he's lost. Surely they can get him help from an experienced manager. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill 13,717 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 2 hours ago, Gaffer said: This is where the manager needs help. If the club is serious about success it needs to help develop the manager as much as the players. I like Gerrard but he's lost. Surely they can get him help from an experienced manager. I like him too and I'd convinced myself he was the one to bring back success. I've just watched this presser again and it's even more worrying the second time. I think you're right, he IS lost and wherever the answers are going to come from it's probably not Mr Gerrard. All football managers come to these tipping points in their careers, only a very few are able to make the changes needed to turn things around. Sadly, it's beginning to look like we could be heading back to square one and starting again. The Hearts game showed worrying weaknesses but provoked no changes. The Aberdeen home draw had alarm bells ringing - no changes. The Kilmarnock loss saw the league challenge evaporate - no changes. Scraped past Livi, drew with St Johnstone - no changes. Again beaten at Tynecastle after repeating the same mistakes as the last visit - no changes. Beaten at home by Hamilton and again it looks like it's carry on as normal, nothing to signal the next game will be any different. No sense of resetting morale or drawing a line under the recent past and taking a new path forward. Nothing. We had one of the best strikers in Europe before New Year, who's a shadow of himself now. Our midfield that dominated teams can hardly string two passes together. Our fullbacks used to terrorise teams but can hardly cross a ball now. Our defence - well, nuff said. The manager assures us he's hurting, the players do too but we know they're just going through the obligatory script. Why was Andy Halliday sent to do a post-match interview? Who thought that would be a good idea? I felt disappointed but increasingly I now just feel let down. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rousseau 9,513 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 These conferences are mostly irrelevant, other than for team news etc. We hear what we want to hear. If we're winning he's 'refreshingly honest and candid; he speaks well'; if we're losing he's 'spouting the same meaningless soundbites; he's lost' etc. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 3,802 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 8 minutes ago, Rousseau said: If we're winning he's 'refreshingly honest and Candide; he speaks well' Ah yes, in the best of all possible worlds! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 3,802 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 16 hours ago, Bill said: When your manager and players repeatedly make public statements that they’re “hurting” you can be sure of only two things. They’re bullshitting you and they’ve no idea what to do next. This is absolutely the last thing I wanted to hear from Gerrard today. As much as I want him to succeed, this is as depressing as it’s insulting. A point was made very well on one of the recent Heart and Hand podcasts. If the manager has plans to correct things then we don't really want him announcing them to all in the press conference. We are only really interested in the end result. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill 13,717 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 4 minutes ago, ranger_syntax said: We are only really interested in the end result. What if we’re already seeing the end result? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 3,802 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 2 minutes ago, Bill said: What if we’re already seeing the end result? That's a matter for the board. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill 13,717 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 2 minutes ago, ranger_syntax said: That's a matter for the board. It always is but perhaps there’s just a small interest from the support too. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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