Re: The Quick Fix
Reply #33 –
Well maybe a "father figure" on the back row of the coach's box?
Possibly, I thought Parkin was still mentoring BB, but he is obviously not a match day figure.
I would have thought, as long as there is cohesion, that Barker and Bolton now have enough experience to work through this without consulting a Godfather! If the Godfather appears, that will be the old Carlton returning!
I do worry that on match day that BB is thinking himself into a corner, he seems to justify the same old same old, a sort of tsactical paralysis. It no different from the players 2nd year blues, opposition are learning BBs tricks, so I think he needs to be a bit more unpredictable, almost do a Dimma and throw away any plan and allow the players to play! Make use of those new players and the tricks and skills that the opponents do not yet know about.
That was probably the cause of our honeymoon period, the first year effect. Lots of young players that the opposition knew little about. Now we have 3/4 of our list as 1st, 2nd or 3rd year players which means a lot of them are suffering 2nd year blues, they have become known knowns and the rest are babies at war scattered around the odd general!