05-18-2020, 05:06 PM
(05-18-2020, 04:52 PM)Half Time Guest Wrote: The whole culture at the club is rotten. There is no ethos, no willingness for anyone to do better or improve themselves or the club. The attitude of the players is absolutely disgusting and it's set from the very top to the bottom.
If the director of football is overshadowing the manager at every turn (see Cathro), then who are the players going to respect? Not here to defend Cathro but he was being undercut and disrespected from the outset. Accusations that Levein was picking the team and still signing players. The embarrassing scenario of Levein passing notes down from the stand to Cathro and then two minutes later subs and tactical changes would be made accordingly.
Members of Cathro's failed backroom team are allowed to stay. Guys like Daly because he's a Levein yes man. MacPhee somehow stays because he's a snake oil salesman and convinces people he's a master tactician. But no one takes any responsibility, Daly and MacPhee both chuck Cathro under the bus and question his training methods and team fitness (newsflash lads, you're the fucking coaches, you're partly responsible as well). Then the director of football becomes manager.
And then that DoF comes in, the man who appointed the previous manager and effectively ran the team, picked the side and signed the players, gets the manager's gig. He shows up twice a week at most for training and lets the two coaches, Daly and MacPhee, the two men who were part of the Cathro shit show and couldn't even stand up to him, are given responsibility to run the show in Levein's absence.
And because Levein isn't there the majority of the time it breeds contempt. Players slack off. Other players are favoured as they become yes men to Levein because they get an easy ride. Other players then start getting allowed to train and rock up as and when they please. Just fucking look at the laughable deal we dished out to Whelan. Come up from down south one a week to play and then can train from home. And glass knees Naismtih then allowed to train from home.
So inevitably when Levein gets binned and a new manager comes along he's up against it straight away to try and turn around the mentality of the slackers in our squad. And the previous manager still lingers around the club, at the training ground, at reserves games, at the stadium. What message does that send out? Who are the players going to react to? The new guy whose come in and tried to implement new ideas and make the players work hard, or the previous manager who gave them an easy ride and is still creeping about and is undoubtedly still in touch with them.
We are ultimately a club that has consistently rewarded failure and created a culture as such. The atmosphere and ethos of the club is utterly vile. I'm not going to put forward a case for defending Stendel here as he's made plenty mistakes, but whoever came in was really up against it with the previous manager still lurking about and toil to get a reaction from the players.
Pozzy for that. The vibe around the club had been off as fuck ever since the summer of 2015 and had deteriorated into a properly toxic environment since.
This documentary being made is going to be watch through your fingers stuff but I have no doubt they'll have captuted a bit of it when it does air.