They must have decided that getting rid of the larger characters in the dressing room would fix the problem. Coady, Boly, Saiss, Ruddy having a contract offer withdrawn,
From those on here much more knowledgeable than me on these things I think it's more that it doesn't look good rather than worsening the injuries.
From listening to some of the old gold podcasts it sounds like Henry was being disruptive and wanting to go in a different direction from Mick anyway. I certainly got the impression that MM and KH weren't as aligned towards the end of MMs tenure as they had been at the start.
You wouldn't if you understood how football works - we have Jeff Shi and his collection of nodding dogs though, taking advice from a man with a vested interest
Both of them agree now that Henry was too player rather than manager focused, stopped being MMs voice within the group and became more of a shop steward. They also agree that it was handled badly, giving Johnson a bit of a hospital pass.
Quite possibly. If you are one of the other players in any situation like that, you will be tempted/forced to take one side or the other.
Thanks, I'd tried to forget that game. You've now triggered my PTSD.
I agree, although I also sympathise with local football journalists because it's an industry so heavily controlled in terms of access. Showbiz is similar - there are shedloads of reporters out there who largely exist as the middlemen between the corporate spin and the public, putting out press release and press conference quotes/comments but knowing that if they actually critically commented on or analysed those quotes/comments they'll be cut off entirely. But the actual journalism tends to come from people who work at bigger national or global publications because a) they have the resources to take time digging into a story, and don't have to worry about publishing something new, however trite, every day, and b) local papers just don't have the weight or resources themselves these days to do the same.
I agree and can see the line that needs to be walked between access and truth. I guess my issue is someone like Judah or Keen spend hours a week on videos, pieces, podcasts etc talking about the team, what's going wrong, what needs to change, that seems indirectly or directly in bad faith when you know the answer is it's not going to because the players aren't having the manager and haven't for months. That's compounded when they write those pieces as soon as he's gone
There is certainly an argument that Neto shouldn't have been allowed back on as he could've damaged the other structures in his ankle.
That's just bad management. You would think Sellars or Shi would've noticed this.
The two times I’ve seen Guo in his executive box this season he looked to be having a whale of a time.
