| McKenna's impact on Phillips 11:16 - Nov 29 with 1937 views | gsoly |
Thought this was a fascinating insight into McKenna from KP, in the piece Phil's published today:
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“The manager's helped me in certain situations, which has helped me go out and enjoy every day and every game,” he added.
“I get quite frustrated with myself at certain times, especially in training. I'm quite hot-headed and Kieran's told me from the first day, don't worry about it. It's part of football, it's a game of mistakes.
“As long as you can deal with certain mistakes better than others, that's fine. He's pushed me to be less hard on myself - my head might go for 10 minutes in a session and I'd lose more than gain anything doing that.
“I've thought about speaking to people, psychologists, and I've been a person who's not really wanted to do that. But Kieran spoke to me about it, and I'm just about to speak to someone and see if they can shed any light on why I'm doing it.”
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It's easy for us as fans to say how much McKenna *could* help a player like Phillips, but to see it in black and white just shows what an impressive man manager he is. To think this guy's been at Man City, the best and richest club in world football, and nobody's been able to adequately support him to the point where he's only now being encouraged to speak to a sports psychologist to help make him a better player.
For McKenna to be the one leading on it and guiding KP is just all round excellent. Also speaks to KM's desire for players to be remain rational, rather than emotional, in games - don't get too drawn in by events outside of your direct control. I think that's been evident across our squad since day one. Minimal referee dissent or handbags with the oppo.
It's been said 100 times, but we really are in such good hands.
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| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 11:24 - Nov 29 with 1849 views | trncbluearmy |
Noticed two players have recently referred to him as a genius, |  | | |
| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 11:41 - Nov 29 with 1761 views | ibbleobble |
| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 11:24 - Nov 29 by trncbluearmy |
Noticed two players have recently referred to him as a genius, |
He will be if we stay up. |  | | |
| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 11:41 - Nov 29 with 1768 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
TBH I thought that's basic man management.
Maybe an indictment on other managers that is seen as something out of the ordinary.
I do think KM is a superb manager and tactically brilliant, but that insight didn't really stand out to me as its something I would expect of any modern manager.
We are in very good hands though. I'm enjoying the ride. |  |
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| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 11:43 - Nov 29 with 1742 views | Swansea_Blue |
| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 11:41 - Nov 29 by Marshalls_Mullet |
TBH I thought that's basic man management.
Maybe an indictment on other managers that is seen as something out of the ordinary.
I do think KM is a superb manager and tactically brilliant, but that insight didn't really stand out to me as its something I would expect of any modern manager.
We are in very good hands though. I'm enjoying the ride. |
it's certainly something unusual in football. It's unusual for us even - https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21277397.six-senior-players---including-downes---wil |  |
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| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 11:45 - Nov 29 with 1718 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
Cook was very old school.
Like I say, I would expect that kind of man management from any modern manager.
I think its becoming the norm. | |
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| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 11:50 - Nov 29 with 1657 views | Swansea_Blue |
| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 11:45 - Nov 29 by Marshalls_Mullet |
Cook was very old school.
Like I say, I would expect that kind of man management from any modern manager.
I think its becoming the norm. |
Yeah, things do seem to be improving in that area thankfully. I don't see how screaming at people and sticking them out in the cold brings the best out of them. KM is especially good by all accounts. Mick got lots of praise for how he dealt with people around the club on Life's a Pitch this week, so we have had emotionally mature managers, just a shame his football was so dull. KM brings it all together into the complete package - I cant believe how we've landed on our feet and long may it continue. | |
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| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 11:53 - Nov 29 with 1636 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 11:50 - Nov 29 by Swansea_Blue |
Yeah, things do seem to be improving in that area thankfully. I don't see how screaming at people and sticking them out in the cold brings the best out of them. KM is especially good by all accounts. Mick got lots of praise for how he dealt with people around the club on Life's a Pitch this week, so we have had emotionally mature managers, just a shame his football was so dull. KM brings it all together into the complete package - I cant believe how we've landed on our feet and long may it continue. |
I don't see how we keep KM beyond the end of the season, but here's hoping.
Anything more is a bonus. | |
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| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 12:15 - Nov 29 with 1508 views | OldFart71 |
| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 11:53 - Nov 29 by Marshalls_Mullet |
I don't see how we keep KM beyond the end of the season, but here's hoping.
Anything more is a bonus. |
Depends on where we are. If we stay in the Premier League I see him staying a few more seasons, unless a really big club came in for him. But seeing as most of them have their managers in place that won't happen. On the other hand if we were relegated then that may be a different story. | | | |
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| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 12:29 - Nov 29 with 1438 views | _clive_baker_ |
I think its definitely a reflection on KM, he improves just about any player he works with. Everyone ultimately has a ceiling but when you look at the contributions of certain players last season he really took them on a level vs. what they had ever demonstrated in their careers (or might do again). He's very emotionally intelligent too, aside from the technical and tactical bits he's a proper man manager who values the art of getting players into the right emotional state and continuous development.
Its probably also in part due to KP's potential role here compared to City. He was cast aside there, deemed surplus some time ago and I dare say not someone they gave too much focus or attention to. He's a much bigger fish in a smaller pond here and we know that getting a tune out of him could go a long way to helping us achieve our goals, so inevitably he's going to get a bit more time and attention. Not to take away from McKenna at all but its the food chain innit, Kalvin Phillips to Man City is like Gassan Ahadme to us. |  | | |
| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 12:31 - Nov 29 with 1422 views | _clive_baker_ |
| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 11:50 - Nov 29 by Swansea_Blue |
Yeah, things do seem to be improving in that area thankfully. I don't see how screaming at people and sticking them out in the cold brings the best out of them. KM is especially good by all accounts. Mick got lots of praise for how he dealt with people around the club on Life's a Pitch this week, so we have had emotionally mature managers, just a shame his football was so dull. KM brings it all together into the complete package - I cant believe how we've landed on our feet and long may it continue. |
Mick was great, and to be fair to him was working under very different circumstances and budget to those that McKenna inherited. MM papered over a lot of cracks with us, he was doing a lot more than most football managers would in that respect and its no coincidence that it went to sh1t when he moved on. | | | |
| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 12:37 - Nov 29 with 1381 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 12:15 - Nov 29 by OldFart71 |
Depends on where we are. If we stay in the Premier League I see him staying a few more seasons, unless a really big club came in for him. But seeing as most of them have their managers in place that won't happen. On the other hand if we were relegated then that may be a different story. |
One thing we can be certain of is that the future of managers of the big clubs is always uncertain! | |
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| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 12:39 - Nov 29 with 1369 views | Garv |
Maybe that's the difference between someone like Pep and someone like McKenna.
Obviously we don't know what Pep is really like behind closed doors so this might be unfair, but the impression is he's a very frantic and animated person and coach. McKenna is the opposite, he's usually the calmest person in the stadium on matchdays. Both world class coaches and managers, but different characters.
I can't imagine Pep having the same calm and rational conversation with KP as he's described having with McKenna, partly because I doubt Pep would have the time to do that with someone who is effectively a fringe player in his world. |  |
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| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 13:16 - Nov 29 with 1217 views | LA_Tractor_Boy |
| McKenna's impact on Phillips on 11:53 - Nov 29 by Marshalls_Mullet |
I don't see how we keep KM beyond the end of the season, but here's hoping.
Anything more is a bonus. |
If we stay up and can keep pace with McKenna's ambitions, then I don't see why he wouldn't stay beyond the end of this season.
I think the biggest risk is the current owners decide to cash in their chips, which would see us wave goodbye to Ashton and McKenna. | | | |
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