ten Hag looked like an angry, angry man yesterday, like he couldn't believe some of the things he was seeing out there. As far as I'm aware, he's always vocal, win or lose. Cajoling, screaming and being animated, so correct me if I'm wrong, but that silence and despondency witnessed yesterday was highly uncharacteristic for him?
I couldn't help but think that seeing is believing and a good measure of the goodwill extended to these players and the clean slate they've been given was washed away yesterday. We saw in a previous manager how a dire performance at the start of a season completely affected his approach to the remainder of an entire campaign. He was Dutch, but I'd like to believe it's not principles and approach that will be adjusted in EtH's case, but rather, it'll be a prompt for him to swiftly eliminate players who cannot follow or execute instructions to the point of the bewilderment we saw on his face yesterday.
Contrary to what Kum Ba Yah mantra some threw out in that 'forgiveness' thread, it's quite clear that old grudges have immediately carried over from last season. Some of the players who had dire performances yesterday weren't been dug out for yesterday's game in isolation, and already, there's leaning towards people being at the end of their tethers with certain players, despite this being the first game of a new campaign. I'm not sure how many games ten Hag will give players before he's done with them, but I have a feeling his fuse isn't particularly long. Losing a game of football is never the issue, but the hows and whys of a game as well as the ability to learn and grow from said loss is paramount. I don't get the impression there'll be a groundhog day level of acceptance to players performing way below standards.
I am curious as to whom you believe will be given the time to find their feet as opposed to those who will get the AWB treatment. McTominay, for example, is not going to be allowed many games of yesterday's standard before being removed from the team, imo, as he was the antithesis of what a Dutch manager wants from a midfielder. Revelatory declaration, I know. But along those lines, who will deviate so far from what this manager wants that they effectively banish themselves from the starting xi?
To give this thread some balance, I'll state that a player who I'm less than thrilled by in Maguire displayed some facets that will earn him a prolonged stay of execution in the team with his distribution and general understanding of what he's being asked to do (how well he did those jobs is another discussion, but at least the tenets did not go over his head) whereas other players just looked lost or like they had reverted immediately to type like the pre-season drilling and conditioning never happened. I'm not on a witch hunt (pointing our McTominay's woes doesn't amount to picking him out) and I am curious to see who and who you believe is going to work themselves out of the side and for what reason? For myself, three players stuck out like sore thumbs, but what the caf consensus is will give insight as to whether we're on the same page.
I don't think it's a bluff that this manager will sooner drop kids in than persist with players who can't do what he asks. What say you?
I couldn't help but think that seeing is believing and a good measure of the goodwill extended to these players and the clean slate they've been given was washed away yesterday. We saw in a previous manager how a dire performance at the start of a season completely affected his approach to the remainder of an entire campaign. He was Dutch, but I'd like to believe it's not principles and approach that will be adjusted in EtH's case, but rather, it'll be a prompt for him to swiftly eliminate players who cannot follow or execute instructions to the point of the bewilderment we saw on his face yesterday.
Contrary to what Kum Ba Yah mantra some threw out in that 'forgiveness' thread, it's quite clear that old grudges have immediately carried over from last season. Some of the players who had dire performances yesterday weren't been dug out for yesterday's game in isolation, and already, there's leaning towards people being at the end of their tethers with certain players, despite this being the first game of a new campaign. I'm not sure how many games ten Hag will give players before he's done with them, but I have a feeling his fuse isn't particularly long. Losing a game of football is never the issue, but the hows and whys of a game as well as the ability to learn and grow from said loss is paramount. I don't get the impression there'll be a groundhog day level of acceptance to players performing way below standards.
I am curious as to whom you believe will be given the time to find their feet as opposed to those who will get the AWB treatment. McTominay, for example, is not going to be allowed many games of yesterday's standard before being removed from the team, imo, as he was the antithesis of what a Dutch manager wants from a midfielder. Revelatory declaration, I know. But along those lines, who will deviate so far from what this manager wants that they effectively banish themselves from the starting xi?
To give this thread some balance, I'll state that a player who I'm less than thrilled by in Maguire displayed some facets that will earn him a prolonged stay of execution in the team with his distribution and general understanding of what he's being asked to do (how well he did those jobs is another discussion, but at least the tenets did not go over his head) whereas other players just looked lost or like they had reverted immediately to type like the pre-season drilling and conditioning never happened. I'm not on a witch hunt (pointing our McTominay's woes doesn't amount to picking him out) and I am curious to see who and who you believe is going to work themselves out of the side and for what reason? For myself, three players stuck out like sore thumbs, but what the caf consensus is will give insight as to whether we're on the same page.
I don't think it's a bluff that this manager will sooner drop kids in than persist with players who can't do what he asks. What say you?