Quote: Wildmoggy "An alternative to someone coming in with a positive attitude? Very good question, almost unanswerable. Maybe the players should be asked what they think is now the solution to the problem that is partly their doing. Without repeating myself, they had no problems with Webster given their interviews, maybe MC should say coach yourselves, go out there, and play off pure instinct and see where it gets you, then we can save money on appointing another coach to say the same things to them that apparently goes in one ear and out of the other.'"
The difficulty for any new coach of course, is that they won't be able to do the things that a good leader would normally do in those circumstances; which would be to offload those people who can't or won't perform, and replace them with people who will give of their best. Because money is always too tight to mention at WTW, any new coach is restricted in what they can do to improve performances, so they end up saying the same things to the same people over and over again - which is pointless to those who need to hear it but won't listen, and irritating to those people who don't need to hear it but do listen. To both groups, it just becomes noise.
On limited resources and with a constant revolving door of mediocre players, it's an almost impossible task; couple that with the fact that we still don't have a defined pathway from Academy to first team and local clubs can smash and grab our junior players seemingly at will, and the job gets even harder. The reason Leeds and Wigan can drop Academy graduates in to their SL 17 and have them run the same plays with the same level of effort and application as the established players, is that they have an Academy system that is integrated with the 1st team - they learn what's expected of a player at their club and they understand how to tackle, defend, protect a kicker, cheat etc etc like a Wigan or Leeds player. We just don't have that, and without a few millions of investment and a some years of stability, we never will.
I wouldn't take the job - and god help whoever does; the expectations are vastly out of kilter with the resources that are available.
