05-03-2023, 14:58
You have recruited a manager who will give everything to try and save you from relegation. He has taken over the remains of a successful team from last season bolstered by some very random recruitment that has become used to losing. You need to inject a little realism into your thought processes. Burnley were the worst possible side for you to have met when you did. The disappointment and deflation you all feel is shared by your players. They thought they'd turned a corner then they hit the signpost saying ROAD TO HELL. Now assessing them individually as much worse than they actually are isn't going to help anybody. They been bounced from one hammering into another. If you stir your twopenorth into the toxic air of defeatism then your predictions will become self-fulfilling.
If Scott High is indeed only a "Conference" player (a non-existent level) he has a fair chance of succeeding with you! The truth is that there are many players in the National League who would improve your team. In all probability you are going to need to scout the three tiers below you to recruit an affordable and enthusiastic team to fight for you next season. Warnock isn't daft. High must show something in training, but it isn't working for him on match days, so he tries harder and harder, runs more and more and just gives himself more chances to make mistakes. Maybe Warnock could be the fatherly figure that saves his career, or maybe he'll decide there isn't time for patience.
Course being crap is dreadful. Course playing crap is even worse. Course Hogg is blaming everyone else when his passes go astray. Truth is he was never Glenn Hoddle and now he knows his old legs won't save him. Like the rest of you he's desperate. He wants to win.
You certainly can put a team on the pitch in which every player is demonstrably capable of playing at your not-particularly-exalted level. Getting them all to believe it is really the trick and then it might spread to you. The one sure way to play rubbish is to go out there thinking you are no-good. The Championship is not a insurmountable mountain of high standards. All the teams around you are full of decent, ordinary players ...... nothing more ..... nothing better.
If Scott High is indeed only a "Conference" player (a non-existent level) he has a fair chance of succeeding with you! The truth is that there are many players in the National League who would improve your team. In all probability you are going to need to scout the three tiers below you to recruit an affordable and enthusiastic team to fight for you next season. Warnock isn't daft. High must show something in training, but it isn't working for him on match days, so he tries harder and harder, runs more and more and just gives himself more chances to make mistakes. Maybe Warnock could be the fatherly figure that saves his career, or maybe he'll decide there isn't time for patience.
Course being crap is dreadful. Course playing crap is even worse. Course Hogg is blaming everyone else when his passes go astray. Truth is he was never Glenn Hoddle and now he knows his old legs won't save him. Like the rest of you he's desperate. He wants to win.
You certainly can put a team on the pitch in which every player is demonstrably capable of playing at your not-particularly-exalted level. Getting them all to believe it is really the trick and then it might spread to you. The one sure way to play rubbish is to go out there thinking you are no-good. The Championship is not a insurmountable mountain of high standards. All the teams around you are full of decent, ordinary players ...... nothing more ..... nothing better.