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12-11-2015 01:05 PM

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The logic about Jackson does not add up, can anyone explain?!

 

442 please Lee.

 

How old is Jackson ?

 

27 I think

Who are these "name" players?

 

28

 

There's yer answer imho

 

Looking forward to the game (I must be bloody mad!), as I couldn't get to the York match. It gives me the chance to see Ivan Toney & the return of Adam Hammill. I wouldn't mind seeing a repeat of the Boxing Day 1978 scoreline of 6-2 (Clarke 3, Graham, Little & Millar), but I'd gladly settle of a 1-0 win.

 

You'd think at 28, he would have some of this resale value stuff. It's possible he's still got his best 5 years ahead of him.

What no one at the club appears to have factored in to the equation (although they might be getting it now) is that if you lose every week, if all the players look ***** because they're that bereft of confidence, then no one has any resale value.

I'm a bit worried about this line "The victory makes me feel at least half the man I was before!" That suggests to me he feels even less of a man now we've won a game, which, as well as being very odd, is particularly worrying as he was only about 4 foot six to start with. We might lose him down the plug hole.

 

LJ is the disappearing man.

I think we prefer to play our younger 'resaleable' assets first. For some reason or other. Just my opinion.

 

27 I think

Who are these "name" players?

 

I don't know. I find the decisions baffling and the motivation behind those decisions impenetrable.

Enjoyed watching Hammill though. With players like that on the pitch it's easy to ignore the rest of the stuff. When there aren't, and there hasn't been for a long time, your attention gets drawn to what else is going off at the club. Get some decent laikers in and we'll all soon stfu.

 

Couldn't agree more - just showed up how numb we've become to mediocrity

 

Brad Abbott - hoping he gets a chance. Always thought he looked steady when he's played and hoping he gets a chance.

 

You know what pisses me off and I imagine the whole team is down because of it, it's that this Johnson is no manager I ever met in my life. A good manager in any profession should be bumping his employees up, telling them they are world beaters, but instead week after week he comes with the same old story. That being the opposition is to be feared, they are a tough team, hard to break down...na na na. How do you think this motivates the players? Simply speaking it does the reverse. The sad thing is that he doesn't have a clue how to motivate, and our team being so young need that so much. Bottom line is that he is not a manager of people, met many like this in the past and every one of them failed because they failed to see the personal side of management.

 

But he isn't talking to the team. He is talking to his customers, the fans. His message is a totally different one to that which he will, no doubt, be delivering to the players immediately prior to kick-off. The message to the fans is, " look, they are a big team, and they have had some poor results of late so they might set their stall out to defend deep and try to hit us from breakaways or set pieces. Do not get on the players' backs if things do not happen the way that you want early".

I do not know why LJ attracts so much adverse comment for his interviews. He speaks intelligently, and for the most part, as openly as he can do. He does not want his pre-match remarks to act as a motivational tool for the opposition manager, so he deliberately does not make public what he really thinks. I like him. I think that he is bright and interesting.

 

All this with bells on. I'm not yet convinced he's a great football manager, but, more crucially, neither am I convinced he's not.

 

Me too, good to hear him get a mention. Did very little wrong last season.

 

Agree with all that. It's the reason I've defended him, the likeability of the bloke and how well he speaks.

 

I'm sorry, but am I to believe that there is one speech to the players and a different one to the paying fans. And the one to the fans is a one of not to expect too much. Bull, total and utter bull. It has been proven by now that the man hasn't got o motivational word in his vocabulary, if he had we would never have gone 7 defeats and a squeaky win over the easiest match on paper this season. Let's not burry our heads in the sand, he's not a people person which is the very basic requirement of any manager.