Every time he opens his mouth I dislike him a little bit more. We accept that Arsenal are the better team but the management should have had the players fired up to be in their faces from the start - Arsenal are the one top team who crumble under physical pressure - yet we stood off them. That is a tactical choice, not an individual player choice.Plus playing Heskey upfront immediately signals that you have no real interest in scoring and I suspect the rest of the players on the pitch must feel the same way when they looked at the team sheet.
The sucker trap we fell into or, more correctly that Lerner fell into and dragged the club with him is the notion that if you are scottish and if you played for Ferguson you are automatically a good manager. There is a fashion for scottish managers and too many of them, including our own are simply not good enough.If McLeish had been black or muslim or chinese or anything other than a scotsman who had played for Ferguson his actual credentials would have been much more forensically scrutinized and he would not have got the job.I would bet a year's wages that given the same fixtures the same squad, the same games, the same set up in every detail, K Mac's team would finish higher in the Premiership than McLeish's and would not generate such discontent and misery in the fans.
The sucker trap we fell into or, more correctly that Lerner fell into and dragged the club with him is the notion that if you are scottish and if you played for Ferguson you are automatically a good manager. There is a fashion for scottish managers and too many of them, including our own are simply not good enough.
I can't agree with this. Players spend 5 days a week in training working towards a game plan. If that game plan is to defend the box then that's how they're going to play on a saturday. If our training was around keeping the ball and playing in triangles then that's what we'd see. Some of the players wouldn't be as good as others but we'd see better standards from them all if training was about passing under pressure making space for each other. Our movement off the ball is terrible, it's not been great since MoN was here but it's much worse now.The coaching and management are terrible. Now given we know that Cowans and Mcdonald can coach a team to play good football (based on the performances of the youth and reserves over a number of seasons) the finger has to be pointed at the person who is organising the training, which is McLeish (or possibly Grant).I don't disagree that some of the players need improve or leave but the reality is, if you were offered a job on 3m a year to turn around a department do you think you'd still have the job if, after 9months, you turned around and said you'd tried but the staff didn't listen and there was nothing you could do until you replaced most of the staff.
feck off now McLeish . you need to score goals to beat teams , you start with Heskey . Have you not learned your lesson.You are clueless. Blame anyone but yourself.Nothing more to say than that
Do the right thing and resign you fool!!!!
Our CEO must read comments like that and think oh crap we fucked up getting this clown in, time to give him the push.... he must?! Surely?