Cowards

Right. Exactly.

He knows what the players can and cannot do. The squad is terrible, every seeing man knows this including Conor. Now, he's just been made HC. If you were him, you're Infront of the press 12/18 hours after getting the job, do you say "there's nothing I can do, the squad isn't capable of altering their approach to a game of football so soon after playing (or not) a certain way for 37 games. The season is effectively over, and there's no point anyone saying anything differently.

Now, that may be the truth, and I think it is. But he cannot say it. You know he can't.

The only thing he can do is tweak at this point. Even if he were allowed to make wholesale changes to tactics and approach, which he may or may not be...who knows...what would it alter right here, right now at this point of the season?

The dye is cast. The squad is simply not good enough. And no amount of formation changes, different timings of the substitutions or press or no press is going to turn us into play-off contenders. We all know this.

Also, let's have it right. Let's say Conor demands that the team press with maximum intensity from minute one in the next match... How long do you think it will be before we concede...and continue to do so? The lads haven't been drilled to press like that. They're the most unfit BFC squad I've seen since Ireland and Handyside etc. No manager on earth could pop in on a two-day turnaround and completely alter the playing style. We don't have the bodies in the building, and the bodies we do have just aren't physically up to the task. It's a mess, a real one.

Best thing to do now is blood some young lads, remove all of the pressure and negativity, just let them play. The day after the season ends, get serious then. Season 24/25 is over, forget it, consign it to the pages of history.

There's no point, at this stage, picking apart the team or the performances or the Coach's tactics or decisions.

 

It's fair to say that 10 games isn't long enough either.

 

I would imagine he’ll be laughing all the way to the bank whilst sat at home. I will never remember he ever coached us until somebody says “ bad subs”

 

The problem with budding the young lads is that our academy is absolutely atrocious and currently not a fit pathway to the first team.

 

He'll be up all night thoroughly planning that toast to the very last detail.

 

He's just been on the radio praising Sormaz for buying him the best toaster ever

 

Even though it's got a continental plug