Morris Dancing

[tans]

Spot on, good managers adapt to the level. Different levels i know but Duncan Shearer said it on the pod best, after about a month of training with the players Geln Hoddlr was taken by the Micky Hazard to one side and told that if he wants to do well he needs to understand the players can't do what he can and he needs to manage that beter

Perhaps one of our midfielders could be the new Micky Hazard soapy tit wank

[DiV]

Spot on, good managers adapt to the level. Different levels i know but Duncan Shearer said it on the pod best, after about a month of training with the players Geln Hoddlr was taken by the Micky Hazard to one side and told that if he wants to do well he needs to understand the players can't do what he can and he needs to manage that beter

I get that but it’s not even that is it.
Just play your centre backs at centre back and your left backs at left back.

[Wobbly Bob]

Khan has quite a good turning circle.

Can he drive a taxi?

[Wobbly Bob]

It's fair (possibly) for Morris to be given the summer then see how the team gets on in first 12-15 games next season.

Wouldn't lose any sleep if he walked or was pushed though.
Difficult to see any wins from the final 6 games.

Does the current run warrant the dreaded vote of confidence?

[Riddick]

I've been reluctant to criticize Morris thus far for a number of reasons. What Sandro did in Jan with selling McDonald, Reed and Gladwin, his first few games where things went against him with sendings off and injuries etc.

However reevaluating now its a travesty how bad he has made us. Of the 3 senior players sold, Reed barely played, so it was really just 2 of them. Is FBT at CB and Tomlinson at LB really worse than McDonald at CB and FBT at LB? Maybe marginally. Gladwin was the biggest blow.

Too many players have gone backwards, probably some of the ones that wanted to leave in Jan (Williams/Hutton?). Clayton? To me he looked like a great prospect alongside McDonald, now he didn't even make the squad on Friday and we had a full back playing at CB! Khan has looked ineffective, Wakeling looks nowhere near the early season player (that amusingly got a 3 year contract based on what 10 games?!)

The team needs to show something in these last 6 games, otherwise i'm not sure how the club can trust him with the rebuild. This is nothing like the back half of the season Wellens took over.

[DiV]

It's fair (possibly) for Morris to be given the summer then see how the team gets on in first 12-15 games next season.

Wouldn't lose any sleep if he walked or was pushed though.
Difficult to see any wins from the final 6 games.

Does the current run warrant the dreaded vote of confidence?

The problem is - if we give him 15 games with his own players and the performances are still as awful as they are now - then he gets sacked. Then we get a new manager in and he’ll need to be given time to get his own players in of which he’ll probably only be able to get a few in, in January so will need to be given the summer and 15 games into the next season with his own team and all of a sudden that’s another year gone

[DMC]

What also worries me is the dropping of players and where they are playing. Friday and Monday Wakeling Shade and Darcy (sub yesterdaay) played 3 different positions. Added to that ,the defence has conced until yesterday 11 goals in 4 games and he changes absolutely nothing apart from Hutton, who despite being poor has still been better than the others back there recently

[Bob's Orange]

I'm generally fairly positive and whilst I do think that there have been signs of 'improvement' (ignoring the results, which of course is the whole point of the 90 minutes so humour me) on the pitch. I actually still think that Morris potentially could get a tune out of players the way he goes about it. I just don't think it's this set of players and the rot has set in. We still pop the ball about nicely at times, but as was the issue under SL, we woefully under test opposition keepers. Too many mistakes at the back as well. Playing a possession based game your defenders have to be properly switched on, Tranmere were awful first half yesterday, we had the ball most of the time but went in behind at half time.

So many things wrong at the moment, I think someone else said that it's like when you are playing football manager and you just can't get a win you start doing random things you'd never dream of doing. Surely Morris has to go back to basics a bit, play an easy formation the players understand, play the best players in those positions, (I get we have a few players that don't really have a 'best' position) get the ball into the box to Charlie Austin, and go from there. Also, why not play Minturn (he's done nothing wrong and needs first team football for development) and Adeloye (he's scored goals in the development matches) more often, or at least have them on the bench. Jeff Cott has shown the square root of nothing in this loan spell, why not see if we can get our own contracted striker off and running?

[Wobbly Bob]

The problem is - if we give him 15 games with his own players and the performances are still as awful as they are now - then he gets sacked. Then we get a new manager in and he’ll need to be given time to get his own players in of which he’ll probably only be able to get a few in, in January so will need to be given the summer and 15 games into the next season with his own team and all of a sudden that’s another year gone

Yeah, it could become an unwanted cycle of manager churn, although arguably we have that at the moment, albeit managers have been leaving of their own accord.

In theory this is where the "model" or "project" comes in.
In that the next coach should be able to pick up where the last one left off.
Clearly that isn't working for whatever reason.
In theory (again) this group of players should be ready made for Morris to improve & get some results with as a group.

Maybe I'm saying that Morris should be given some time more out of a need to see some stability & continuity on the management / coaching front as opposed to a strongly held belief that he will come good.

[JoeMezz]

Morris to be sacked according to reports.

[Bob's Orange]

Morris to be sacked according to reports.

Give it Gunning until the end of the season.

[DMC]

Morris to be sacked according to reports.

Where have you seen that buddy

[Jimmy HaveHave]

Morris to be sacked according to reports.

Is your source reliable Joe

[Robinz]

oh dear...

In a way this would be a real shame and a total major disappointment.

[Outsider83]

Morris to be sacked according to reports.

What reports?