Barrington Horne
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- Oct 18, 2019
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As the games and weeks roll on I’m more and more impressed with the professionalism of our players and management. Alex Neil has an eye for detail and appears to be meticulous in ensuring that we prepare quite differently according to who we’re playing.
Changes in personnel and tactics often surprise me but it’s like he’s plotting a way very effectively round a golf course rather than just smashing it off the tee consistently and risking ending up in trouble. The full squad is being utilised and we have players returning from injury to support further.
General discipline is good on and off the field and there is absolute support, from what I see, from us supporters towards the players and this seasons journey.
The players to a man seem to have bought in to it, Gally, Hunts, Clarke, Nugent are impeccable in their attitude despite reduced game time and you don’t hear of dissent in the ranks, even on our recent bad patch there was nothing.
We have added a sprinkling of magic dust in Scotty Sinclair and straight away he’s grafting and looks like he’s bought in to the team ethos. He will only get better and become more influential, again when he got subbed on Saturday, Harrop went in to cover their right back getting forward more.
The work rate of the team individually and collectively is exceptional and being asked to adapt mid game (e.g Fisher switch to left back) is met with intensity and desire. Neil’s pragmatic approach when we go ahead is again met with a collective effort to not allow the opposition time and space and we sit back and look to counter.
Neil himself does not carry the big ego and make it about him, rather he offers in depth reasoning as to his views on the game and why he did certain things. It’s likely we’ll have the odd hiccup, this league does that to all teams, but no drama, we go again.
Most impressively there looks to be a professional calmness about us and an inner desire fuelled by the collective work rate and positive results that has cemented our belief that we just keep doing our thing and it’ll happen for us.
The core of the side seems to be now more settled and based on Rudd, Fisher, Davies, Bauer, Hughes (or Raff), with a midfield trio of Pearson, Johnson and Browne, Barky and Sinclair wide-ish and Maguire up top. Harrop, Gally, Potts, Stockley, Nuge etc. will all play their part as two or three will likely change each game around the core.
Given our relative limited resources compared to our current competitors it would only make it more sweeter if Alex Neil and the gang can further plot their way around this Championship ‘golf course’ and bring the success that we crave.
We go again on Wednesday, enjoy.
Changes in personnel and tactics often surprise me but it’s like he’s plotting a way very effectively round a golf course rather than just smashing it off the tee consistently and risking ending up in trouble. The full squad is being utilised and we have players returning from injury to support further.
General discipline is good on and off the field and there is absolute support, from what I see, from us supporters towards the players and this seasons journey.
The players to a man seem to have bought in to it, Gally, Hunts, Clarke, Nugent are impeccable in their attitude despite reduced game time and you don’t hear of dissent in the ranks, even on our recent bad patch there was nothing.
We have added a sprinkling of magic dust in Scotty Sinclair and straight away he’s grafting and looks like he’s bought in to the team ethos. He will only get better and become more influential, again when he got subbed on Saturday, Harrop went in to cover their right back getting forward more.
The work rate of the team individually and collectively is exceptional and being asked to adapt mid game (e.g Fisher switch to left back) is met with intensity and desire. Neil’s pragmatic approach when we go ahead is again met with a collective effort to not allow the opposition time and space and we sit back and look to counter.
Neil himself does not carry the big ego and make it about him, rather he offers in depth reasoning as to his views on the game and why he did certain things. It’s likely we’ll have the odd hiccup, this league does that to all teams, but no drama, we go again.
Most impressively there looks to be a professional calmness about us and an inner desire fuelled by the collective work rate and positive results that has cemented our belief that we just keep doing our thing and it’ll happen for us.
The core of the side seems to be now more settled and based on Rudd, Fisher, Davies, Bauer, Hughes (or Raff), with a midfield trio of Pearson, Johnson and Browne, Barky and Sinclair wide-ish and Maguire up top. Harrop, Gally, Potts, Stockley, Nuge etc. will all play their part as two or three will likely change each game around the core.
Given our relative limited resources compared to our current competitors it would only make it more sweeter if Alex Neil and the gang can further plot their way around this Championship ‘golf course’ and bring the success that we crave.
We go again on Wednesday, enjoy.