dctid said:
Edin was poor today - probably the worst i have seen him - blaming Mancini for that performance is wrong - blaming Mancini for not getting him off and / or responding to Spuds change in formation is most definately his.
Today sums up our entire season and why we are so far far away from the rags. Too many indifferent peroformances its naive to expect champagne football every week but we do expect committment.
Last season the rags team man for man to ours was inferior but its testmament to Ferguson that his teams seem to play for him and performances like we have seen today and this season would not be tolerated.
I am sure Bobby's overt and open public criticism of our own players does nothing to help build the backs-to-wall, we're-all-in-it-together, siege mentality you need. I think it's no coincidence that you very rarely, if ever, hear Mourinho or Ferguson openly criticise their own players.
If the two best managers in the world know this is a bad plan, why the fuck does Bob keep doing it. Sure, it might work with some players, but overall it does not.
He constantly criticised Adam Johnson, and that resulted in him being sold. He was openly critical of Balotelli, sold again. He moaned all the time about not getting RVP for example, and look what's happened to Serigio and Dzeko. Sergio is playing well now, but even despite injury, it's been a disappointing season for him. Dzeko, enough said.
You get the best out of people by building them up, not telling them they are crap, or that you'd rather have someone else in the team.
Terry, Lampard etc would take a bullet for Mourinho. I suspect some of our players would fire one at Mancini.
That is a big part of why we are second. That, and ludicrous formations / substitutions and tactics on accession.
