PATERSON ON PAPA JOHN'S EXIT Interviews Martin Paterson feels the lessons learned in this competition will bode well for the future, following our exit at Port Vale on Wednesday night. Continue reading on the official site...
One lesson to the coaching staff , learn how to change things during the game like most successful teams do instead of waiting while half time when the game could already be virtually over !
Not at all tbh it’s how we were eliminated that’s got to me . I was vocal about the pi ss poor performances of some of our players last season for non effort and I don’t see why we should excuse it this season just because of the competition we’re in. If those attitudes are acceptable to our coaching staff then picking matches you want to perform in will become the norm for players as we’ve seen in one or two this season . Don’t mind losing to anyone as long as the attitude to stop least try and win is there , which it wasn’t yesterday ftom players snd coaches .
I don't understand how he picked certain players out for praise, when most on here thought said players were a liability. However, my biggest gripe is why we didn't go for it in the last 15 minutes after Edwards had given us a lifeline, and we had plenty of options on the bench. We capitulated.
We are in the top six. I paid a tenner to watch a terrible game in a quagmire. More fool me, but have to put the result & performance in context.