The English Football Thread

[Cuthbert]

Originally Posted by mojopinuk

I actually thought of the way he handled his keeper at Swindon, when he brought him off after 20 minutes and berated him afterwards. I thought of that and hoped, as I still do, that he does that here to be honest.

I could see how, in the long term especially, it could have a negative effect on your players but I wanna see some fire. I wanna see our current squad scared to give anything less than what they got.

Not that we have to worry about that with our keeper but Johnson, Sessegnon, Bramble, O'Shea and Seb Larsson could all use a swift kick up the arse at times.

I don't think a manager should publicly criticise their players like that tbh. I read Keane's book and he said how Ferguson would always back them in public but behind closed doors he'd lay into them good and proper. I think the only time I've ever heard Ferguson publicly criticise one of his players was when Nani gave the ball away in the league cup which led to the Chelsea equaliser this season. Even then he didn't go nuts like Paolo did.

Doing it publicly is just humiliating, can't see how any good would come of that.

Berate them in the dressing room yeah, but the way he spoke about the Swindon keeper and how he was going to boot him out was basically "he is shit, he's lucky I'm playing him" and he did it to the cameras.

[Mojo]

Originally Posted by Fluffy Kittens

I don't think a manager should publicly criticise their players like that tbh. I read Keane's book and he said how Ferguson would always back them in public but behind closed doors he'd lay into them good and proper. I think the only time I've ever heard Ferguson publicly criticise one of his players was when Nani gave the ball away in the league cup which led to the Chelsea equaliser this season. Even then he didn't go nuts like Paolo did.

Doing it publicly is just humiliating, can't see how any good would come of that.

Berate them in the dressing room yeah, but the way he spoke about the Swindon keeper and how he was going to boot him out was basically "he is shit, he's lucky I'm playing him" and he did it to the cameras.

As I said, I acknowledge that that kind of an attitude could have had a negative effect on our squad long term but at this point, I'm not looking at the long term.

Di Canio has done here what he did at Swindon. He has doubled the training sessions, refused to give them their usual day off (I think I read that he's said they might get it off if they win their game but not if they lose) and he has publically stated he expects each one of them to give their all. If any of the players I mentioned earlier don't increase their work rate, don't give more for him, and don't improve under him in our last six games of the season and he gives any of them that same treatment then as I said, I'm all for it.

They have all shown, on several occasions this season, if not consistently, that they arent motivated, they aren't giving 100% and they have all given half arsed performances that have really hurt us. If the change of manager and the urgency of the situation we are in doesn't bring out some kind of response in any one of them and Di Canio decides to give them the hook early in a game and shares his feelings with a TV camera and their response is anything other than to work harder as a result, then I really wouldn't care if they spend the rest of the season on the bench and lots of people question his professionalism.