sure, that comes under his responsiblity, especially the way we shape up against a counter-attack...but so many times this season they have been individual errors as well
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I know, it didn't make much sense to me either.
Small teams will always come out of the gate working harder than the bigger teams...most certainly us. How many times have we conceded first this season? As Alen says its tactics most definitely but I do honestly feel that some of CR's choices for his starting 11's have raised some concerns with some members. Though I have no way to prove that, I think leaving Trez on the bench and Gio right next to him when we have a chance to win a game and not use that 3rd sub is much to conservative and reserved for the likes of some of our higher caliber players whom are accustomed to winning.
Let's not even bring his substitutions into discussion...other than his DP sub for DC earlier in the season. It's those kind of subs that confuse our own players, not to mention anger them when the result turns a complete U-turn on us in the game.
CR's tactics are pretty ridiculous, I agree but I still believe he isn't the most motivational coach. If players respect their coach, they will be motivated against smaller teams when their coach is praising them or telling them to get their head out of their asses. When a coach has made bad decisions all season long and has hurt the team in terms of losing points then I think it is going to be a little bit more difficult for a player to take the coach seriously OR be diplomatic when the player needs to react to a decision by the coach that he may not agree with.
Look at Manicini at Inter last year, as soon as he left and Mourinho was appointed players were full of excitement to work with Mourinho. No one has seemed to look back in sadness about missing Mancini. I guess only time will tell that when the day comes Claudio Ranieri leaves his post at Juventus whether or not the players will have respected him. To date, I still don't remember anyone coming out saying they enjoy, respect and like playing under Ranieri's leadership.
It is combined motivational and tactics (not necessarily in that order) that our season has suffered. Bad tactics could have a huge motivational factor in our team just as a run of bad games, bad refereeing, a red card, conceding first too often, whatever...there are a list of things that contribute to that. Now against smaller teams, I can see how they sit back and score counters on us, but big teams also score counters on us as well. That is clearly tactics. Conceding early in so many games this season, to me that is motivational because there are times this season whether against a big/small team where we have started the game outplaying the opposition in all areas of the pitch and we clearly had control of the game. I just don't understand why it's so hard for us to keep that kind of consistency.
I surely don't expect to beat small teams by 3 plus goals, that is just nonsense. But I do expect a team that is capable of such grit and hard work with the quality of players we do have to be able to grind out the results, just like Inter. We beat Milan/Roma this season, there is no reason why we can't be on par with the smaller teams as they are. Tactics do play a part, actually a huge part...that I can agree on...honestly, in a game I think it comes down to a little bit of luck but largely on who wants it more. Chievo vs Inter is a great example. Inter are on cruis control, that is obvious...Chievo had something to prove and look at the result to got against a world class team. Motivation.
Small teams will always come out of the gate working harder than the bigger teams...most certainly us. How many times have we conceded first this season? As Alen says its tactics most definitely but I do honestly feel that some of CR's choices for his starting 11's have raised some concerns with some members. Though I have no way to prove that, I think leaving Trez on the bench and Gio right next to him when we have a chance to win a game and not use that 3rd sub is much to conservative and reserved for the likes of some of our higher caliber players whom are accustomed to winning.
Let's not even bring his substitutions into discussion...other than his DP sub for DC earlier in the season. It's those kind of subs that confuse our own players, not to mention anger them when the result turns a complete U-turn on us in the game.
CR's tactics are pretty ridiculous, I agree but I still believe he isn't the most motivational coach. If players respect their coach, they will be motivated against smaller teams when their coach is praising them or telling them to get their head out of their asses. When a coach has made bad decisions all season long and has hurt the team in terms of losing points then I think it is going to be a little bit more difficult for a player to take the coach seriously OR be diplomatic when the player needs to react to a decision by the coach that he may not agree with.
Look at Manicini at Inter last year, as soon as he left and Mourinho was appointed players were full of excitement to work with Mourinho. No one has seemed to look back in sadness about missing Mancini. I guess only time will tell that when the day comes Claudio Ranieri leaves his post at Juventus whether or not the players will have respected him. To date, I still don't remember anyone coming out saying they enjoy, respect and like playing under Ranieri's leadership.
It is combined motivational and tactics (not necessarily in that order) that our season has suffered. Bad tactics could have a huge motivational factor in our team just as a run of bad games, bad refereeing, a red card, conceding first too often, whatever...there are a list of things that contribute to that. Now against smaller teams, I can see how they sit back and score counters on us, but big teams also score counters on us as well. That is clearly tactics. Conceding early in so many games this season, to me that is motivational because there are times this season whether against a big/small team where we have started the game outplaying the opposition in all areas of the pitch and we clearly had control of the game. I just don't understand why it's so hard for us to keep that kind of consistency.
I surely don't expect to beat small teams by 3 plus goals, that is just nonsense. But I do expect a team that is capable of such grit and hard work with the quality of players we do have to be able to grind out the results, just like Inter. We beat Milan/Roma this season, there is no reason why we can't be on par with the smaller teams as they are. Tactics do play a part, actually a huge part...that I can agree on...honestly, in a game I think it comes down to a little bit of luck but largely on who wants it more. Chievo vs Inter is a great example. Inter are on cruis control, that is obvious...Chievo had something to prove and look at the result to got against a world class team. Motivation.
Maybe because the smaller teams won't attack us and will also prefer to sit deep and wait for us to attack them? 
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on channel 4 there is news about BOD's meeting and discussion about possible replacements for CR..
on channel 4 there is news about BOD's meeting and discussion about possible replacements for CR..
