BarnetFC wrote:Promise I won't go off on one of my long-winded 'culture' rants like last time, but just a brief one on the theme...
Callum Lancaster comes in to cover injuries, plays excellently in a tough away game, scores twice, hasn't played since.
Jordan Rankin comes in to cover injuries, plays decently, dropped as soon as everybody is fit again.
Curtis Naughton....
As a coach, even if you think you have a best team on paper, and that team has the best chance of winning that match (and given the way Yeaman et al are playing it's difficult to see why he thinks that way) it's more damaging in the long term to do what he's doing, dropping players who've stuck their hand up and played well in order to shoe horn regulars/favourites back in. It fosters an attitude among the chosen few that they don't really have to try for their place, while making the others wonder what the point of bothering is.
And that's without going into the logic of we can't have Rankin on the bench because it's a waste of an interchange, but we can have 3 hookers and use Howarth (who is bang average) for just 15 minutes.
Mediocre player, dreadful captain, appalling coach.
Very well put!
You can only imagine what the fringe/young players are thinking when they watch the likes of Yeaman plod about collecting their pensions.
