porcupine wrote:Other than H9crx's usual negativity, this is an excellent thread with sound opinions throughout. As said by me two weeks ago and many others, Canning HAS to see the game from the sidelines and preferably from the stand where he can see the play developing/ mistakes being made etc. etc. With Tena available for the next game, there is no excuse for the Manager to be playing himself. We COULD not play any worse than Saturday. Canning has to have the balls to manage the situation and the current problems. It is now long overdue that he stamps his authority on the players. If he cannot, or is unwilling to change being one of the 'boys', then he is dead in the water. Whilst some will not like it, most groups of staff, footballers included, are looking for strong leadership, and our team at Accies are no different, whether they know that or not.
Most of our squad have not become bad players in six weeks. All are clearly suffering a massive lack of confidence in their own ability. This CAN be managed by the right person. I am far from sure that, what looked like an excellent back-up team of Swailes and Buezellin, are gelling with everyone else, and the lack of decision making regarding the need of early substitutes on Saturday, is a clear example.
One other point. Did many others note that we had no width for most of the game? Other than the goalkeeper, EVERY player was in one quarter of the pitch on too may occasions? Almost like a schoolboys game where everyone wants a touch of the ball!!!! As a result, we failed to stretch St Mirren on the flanks. The next two weeks with a resurgent Ross county coming to town, are going to the the make or break of our complete Management team.
Like it or not, but
if we lose to Ross Co at home quickly followed by a loss to Motherwell away, the calls for Canning to go, may well be overwhelming and his time may well be truly up.
I'm sure Canning's feeling the immense pressure and I wish he hadn't had such a baptism of fire, but he chose to take the job, with all that comes with it.
All good managers (not just in football) have to from time to time look at things dispassionately in order to gauge what to do next.
Canning has to have the confidence to do that now and put the correct changes in place.
If he can't, then there's no helping him and he was bound to fail.
Good luck Canzo or it maybe good bye.