| Amongst the out of contract players 09:33 - Apr 15 with 805 views | BlueNomad |
who appears to still be trying? I'm not talking about performance levels and am just thinking about their effort. |  | | |  |
| Amongst the out of contract players on 09:59 - Apr 15 with 721 views | BlueNomad |
The lack of responses indicates the general feeling is......................no-one. | | | |
| Amongst the out of contract players on 10:08 - Apr 15 with 694 views | monty_radio |
Although much vitriol has been poured on the players in recent days, I don't think that "not trying" is really where it's at. Many will have seen their contracts winding down for months with no obvious effort from the club to do anything about it, and have feared the worst, even before the Takeover. It's easier to sit on the sidelines and shout that they're supposed to be playing for their futures than it is to overcome the psychology that those months have built up, especially when so poorly managed and coached that each individual cannot expect much from the surrounding team.
The Takeover and the freedom of purchase they know that brings will have done nothing to help - as Wimbledon perhaps indicated. |  |
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| Amongst the out of contract players on 10:18 - Apr 15 with 658 views | BlueNomad |
| Amongst the out of contract players on 10:08 - Apr 15 by monty_radio |
Although much vitriol has been poured on the players in recent days, I don't think that "not trying" is really where it's at. Many will have seen their contracts winding down for months with no obvious effort from the club to do anything about it, and have feared the worst, even before the Takeover. It's easier to sit on the sidelines and shout that they're supposed to be playing for their futures than it is to overcome the psychology that those months have built up, especially when so poorly managed and coached that each individual cannot expect much from the surrounding team.
The Takeover and the freedom of purchase they know that brings will have done nothing to help - as Wimbledon perhaps indicated. |
Good response. I know that when redundancy hangs over you it is very hard to raise yourself so perhaps I didn't phrase the question that well. I didn't watch the other night, couldn't face what I thought would be the absolute boredom, but the general feeling is that the effort isn't there. | | | |
| Amongst the out of contract players on 10:21 - Apr 15 with 642 views | jayessess |
| Amongst the out of contract players on 10:18 - Apr 15 by BlueNomad |
Good response. I know that when redundancy hangs over you it is very hard to raise yourself so perhaps I didn't phrase the question that well. I didn't watch the other night, couldn't face what I thought would be the absolute boredom, but the general feeling is that the effort isn't there. |
Football fans always reach for "the players aren't trying hard enough" as their first explanation for everything though. I'd take it with a large pinch of salt. |  |
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| Amongst the out of contract players on 10:23 - Apr 15 with 630 views | StokieBlue |
| Amongst the out of contract players on 09:59 - Apr 15 by BlueNomad |
The lack of responses indicates the general feeling is......................no-one. |
I think the lack of response is probably because all these questions have been done repeatedly over the last few weeks and the answers haven't changed.
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| Amongst the out of contract players on 10:35 - Apr 15 with 588 views | monty_radio |
| Amongst the out of contract players on 10:18 - Apr 15 by BlueNomad |
Good response. I know that when redundancy hangs over you it is very hard to raise yourself so perhaps I didn't phrase the question that well. I didn't watch the other night, couldn't face what I thought would be the absolute boredom, but the general feeling is that the effort isn't there. |
The first time I noticed Judge in the game he was running around very purposefully and sprayed a couple of good passes. Moments later he was off. I imagine he saw a substitution coming as someone stripped off and his energy levels picked up. But as to whether he'd realised until that point that those levels just hadn't been there or was just sucked into the malaise is anybody's guess. | |
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| Amongst the out of contract players on 10:40 - Apr 15 with 563 views | WD19 |
| Amongst the out of contract players on 10:35 - Apr 15 by monty_radio |
The first time I noticed Judge in the game he was running around very purposefully and sprayed a couple of good passes. Moments later he was off. I imagine he saw a substitution coming as someone stripped off and his energy levels picked up. But as to whether he'd realised until that point that those levels just hadn't been there or was just sucked into the malaise is anybody's guess. |
I was thinking about Judge specifically this morning. In hindsight we should have let him got to QPR when he wanted to. He has been dialling it in ever since.
BUT.....if we had let him go then ME would have got unbelievable grief for 'cashing in' on our ticket to promotion - The L1 (loan version) Jimmy Bullard tearing it up (in our heads).
ME would have been the reason we are stuck in L1.
Sometimes you just can't win. |  | | |
| Amongst the out of contract players on 10:43 - Apr 15 with 558 views | dirtyboy |
Well put, playing for careers is bounded around freely, but it's much easier to be part of an organisation/team that has actually made efforts to want you to be there ie; offering a new contract.
I appreciate it's almost a catch 22 situation though, playing for a contract or playing because wanted, each individual will react differently, some need a kick up the backside, some need to be loved, some need a mixture at the right time. That's the difficulty of managment! |  | | |
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