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McCarthy: No Post-Match Finger-Pointing or Screaming and Shouting
Saturday, 26th Nov 2016 06:00

Town boss Mick McCarthy says there was no post-match dressing-room finger-pointing or screaming and shouting following last week’s dismal 2-0 home defeat to Nottingham Forest with the Blues manager preferring to take a more measured approach.

McCarthy felt the way the match progressed was shaped by Forest scoring so early on: “They scored after 19 seconds, whatever analysis I’m going to do or anyone else wants to do, we weren’t going into the game full of confidence after the Rotherham game and they scored after 19 seconds.

“The game was skewed, the game was compromised within a minute, [it changed] performances and how it was going to be played.”

McCarthy says he has no problem with players making their thoughts known in a dressing room, although feels sloganeering alone isn’t particularly effective.

“That kind of stuff, ‘Come on, we need to improve’, is a real generic comment which means nothing unless there’s any substance to it or more thought behind that - how do we need to improve?” he added. "

“I don’t know if I could put a session on that could stop a goal after 19 seconds, I thought it would have been impossible actually when the team’s got the kick-off to conceded on 19 seconds.

“Then I saw Tottenham concede after 39 seconds when they’d just scored, so maybe there’s something in the wind at the minute.

“It’s me that does the speaking generally, sometimes there are a few [players who speak], but I’m not into finger-pointing, that’s nonsense because they’ve all made mistakes at some stage, me included.


“Screaming and shouting at people, whether it’s players doing it to players or me doing it, I don’t do it. The only way I would do it is if somebody’s not tried or somebody’s done something completely against what I’ve been asking them to do. Then I might take a few stripes off them.”

McCarthy says incidents from games are analysed in the days following a match, although not usually as a group.

“I don’t do it particularly as a squad, although I did on Monday,” he continued. “I showed them a number of things, it wasn’t just the goals we conceded, it was the fact that we had loads of chances, no, loads of crosses into the box, and at some stage somebody was going to have to get across somebody and score.

“There was a bit of that, how we can better get chances and when we do get chances take them.

“And also the goals, but it’s always the same when you concede a goal, somebody’s made a mistake.

“But that doesn’t mean to say he’s played that badly or it’s all down to him, that one person.

“And I’ve been there because when you make that mistake you know you’ve made a mistake, you don’t need anybody to show it in front of everybody else and embarrass you.

“No matter how you dress it up as constructive criticism or positively, it’s criticism and that’s what they see it as. But they’ve all seen it and the people who were involved in the goal have all seen it.”

McCarthy says players are taken aside and shown particular incidents on their own.

“We pick it out and TC’s very good at showing them and it’s sometimes better coming from the coach as well,” he said.

“It was done by me collectively on Monday, everybody. We didn’t watch all the game, we didn’t have to.

“We then we picked bits out and showed them individually, which is a lot easier and it’s a lot more constructive doing it that way.

“It’s like one of you [the media] getting criticised in front of your office staff. If they do it I think they’re wrong, I think they should pull you in and tell you what’s going wrong.”

He says a manager pointing fingers publicly in that manner is counter-productive and can lead to everyone blaming everyone else in a squad.

“I’m not into pointing fingers because I’ve been in teams when it starts going wrong - the frontmen don’t get good service from the back guys and, well, the midfield players never pass it in there, they just bypass them and actually when it does get up there they never lay it off to the midfield players because the centre forwards aren’t that good.

“And the wingers don’t cross it and the full-backs, they’re not giving it to the winger and the centre-halves, well they’re just shit!

“I wouldn’t have that happen in here, I just don’t have it. But I’ve been in teams where that does happen, and there’s none of that going on.”


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muccletonjoe added 06:22 - Nov 26
All of them know they will keep their places in the team for today. To show them what happened last week is a total waste of time when they are about to repeat it all again today and next week and the week after.
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Benters added 06:25 - Nov 26
Perhaps they needed a bolocking as that team performance was painful to watch .
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bobbyramsey added 06:26 - Nov 26
Plenty of finger pointing on here Mr M.
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Sir_Bob added 06:52 - Nov 26
''The frontmen don't get good service from the back guys and, well, the midfield players never pass it in there, they just bypass them and actually when it does get up there they never lay it off to the midfield players because the centre forwards aren't that good. “And the wingers don't cross it and the full-backs, they're not giving it to the winger and the centre-halves, well they're just s***! ''

The truest thing you've said in weeks Mick
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DinnernotTea added 07:19 - Nov 26
And here for any doubters is why he needs to get out of our club. He has zero burning desire about him. It's a massive MEH if things are going wrong and it's painful to accept. Jesus he couldn't even be bothered to show them the whole game!!! (He then flew out to Dublin to watch a player we will never buy).

Get out of our club.
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therein61 added 07:37 - Nov 26
And you can all hold hands together as you take us down to leaue1(obviously no wage reduction for relegation in place otherwise they might show a bit of fight)
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blue75 added 07:44 - Nov 26
Maybe there should be a mirror installed so McCarthy can shout and point his finger at who's to blame!!
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braveblue added 07:44 - Nov 26
What an absolute clown.
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ChrisFelix added 07:50 - Nov 26
Maybe if his skipper concentrated from the first second & didn't go gungho we won't concede in the first minuite
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ipswich1992 added 07:50 - Nov 26
Every game is one game closer to micks departure.
The end is near- some banners and songs for 90 minutes today may help!!
Mick I dislike you more than any other manager. Even Keane and Jewell I actually wanted to turn it around. You I really don't and it's your arrogance behind it.
Mick it's time to go- do the right thing!
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tractorboybig added 08:34 - Nov 26
Sums it all up. Played the players he said he wanted back and they were carp along with some usual carp
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big_gaz67 added 08:36 - Nov 26
Any lack of confidence stems from you Mick. You set them up to play in one system and then for no real reason decided to change it. Yes we conceded after 17 seconds but that gives us 89 minutes 43 seconds to score twice using the system you had both trained and sent the players out with. And surely we should be look to scoring two goals (at least) every home game anyway. So if we are going to concede surely 17 seconds is the best time to do it?
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BrettenhamBlue added 08:47 - Nov 26
Agree with Benters
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jas0999 added 08:48 - Nov 26
I doubt any of them actually cared, least of all Marcus Evans who already has our money in the bank. The likes of Chambers and Skuse could be dreadful every week and still get picked. Both are classic examples of players who should be dropped from the team.
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MicksZzzTactics added 08:54 - Nov 26
No shouting in the dressing room ehhhh???
Hmmmm it sounds almost genuinely commendable doesn't it? :-) lol .... ohhh but wait a minute! In OUR little local for too loooong mind-blowingly inept & ineffective case perhaps there should be some darn SHOUTING then after all!!!!!!!!! And not only internally between these mostly overpaid and vain ITFC "employers" within the secluded dressing room but most certainly also all around PR by the 'we-have-had-more-than-enough' anti-dinosauric truly objective non-complacent part of our fans before the start of each and every home game!!! -- and may I humbly suggest said SHOUTING is not just any vile SHOUTING but specifically something real subtle along the lines of these here golden (and extremely fitting for the latest pathetic performance & overall saddening quagmire which Ebenezer Evans & Master Micks's ITFC is real deep in!) hit-lyrics by 'Tears for Fears':



So "shout" along now... :-)
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Cloddyseedbed added 09:09 - Nov 26
The players may idolise you for thinking and saying this but our league position, quality of football, results and disappearing crowds, say maybe, just maybe your philosophy needs looking at!
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brittaniaman added 09:21 - Nov 26
SO McCarthy it was Pats on the Back all round then !!!!
Perhaps you McCarthy should take a few Lessons from The Dark Lord of when to Shout, ???
Also The Dark Lord should take Lessons from you of when not to Shout, ???
The football May not be good, but the Shouting could be
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Penguinblue added 09:21 - Nov 26
The most measures approach would be to get rid of this awful manager.
And the crap about conceding early, didn't that happen at Newcastle as well?

If McCarthy has shown them a few things god help us. Neck braces ready.
And sorry, there is absolutely no evidence on the pitch that TC has anything to offer other than being the boss's yes boy
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Swn98 added 09:22 - Nov 26
Ipswich 1992 you are joking worse than Keane and Jewell!
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TractorWood added 09:23 - Nov 26
Maybe there is something in the wind at the moment? Come on Mick, it happened at Newcastle too without us touching the ball.
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juniorblue added 09:29 - Nov 26
Oh come on Mick. Nearly everyone in the dressing room needs a good kick up the backside and some need dropping from the team. Continuing to play your favourites, regardless of how hopeless they are is really getting on the supporters nerves. Shake it up man or please just leave.
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ssmith added 09:30 - Nov 26
Lots of crosses but no one on the end of them , em maybe not having any big strikers might be the problem

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MicksZzzTactics added 09:32 - Nov 26
Uhhuuu!!! Mrs. McCarthy aka @geminimustang (among several other of her accounts here l suspect :-) lol) is on the warpath again I see..... down-voting nearly each and every NON unconditional MM praising or MM loving poster this morning , and as customary without even "bothering" to explain why, especially what is "she" finds sooooo unfactual about her husband's mischief etc..!!!

Go "Mrs. McCarthy" gogogo .... :-) rofl
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Dissboyitfc added 09:38 - Nov 26
All proper blokes and mates!

There is more passion in a sunday league side.

Just go!
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cornishblu added 10:02 - Nov 26
Really big sigh!! .....this is bonkers ...there should be finger pointing at it should be by the players and the owner at MM ....players round pegs in square holes....why are you playing me out of position ....owner ...why is there only one plan and no thought of how to change a game .....and why does the opposition scoring change the game ....that's what we should think they should do and have a plan to then get back at them....if it's a surprise that they scored then you are watching the wrong game ....time to go ...coyb
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