Some brutal comments...

[Maurice Swan]

from Steve Morison.

"People will always look at team selection or tactics, the reality is if you don't do the job you're asked to do or employed to do by the football club then you're going to get beat." (sic - beaten...)

"I have to tell them to go and get the ball, they are just standing there like, 'Oh we've lost again.' Come on. Go and leave a bit on someone. Go and drag the ball off someone, make the goalie hurry up. They are just booting balls into the stand thinking, 'That's alright, we've got another game next week'."

Quite right......but Steve..LISTEN to comments and STOP playing Flint/Pack/Nelson/Bacuna/Vaulks.....TRUST the youngsters you had in the u23's - surely they cannot do worse. Play with Ralls, Wintle, Doyle....do not take them off after 70 minutes...they are old enough to last a whole game. Players of 19/20/21 age should be able to do a job....if not buy that age then they need to move o

STOP this obsessive formula at the back....I DO sympathise...but stop this 'old guard' attitude.

Due to internet problems I could not view today's game.....but we should have got something out of it from the text comments...apart from the dire 'defending'.

[Hilts]

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I just think he needs to be relieved of duties.

[Tuerto]

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I just think he needs to be relieved of duties.

He's talking way too much....

[life on mars]

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I thought at times our approach play and movement up front was very good , the two new lads were excellent, Collins looks okay as does Harris , our inability to defend a lead and concentrate in key moments Is a worry, we needs defenders with intelligence and pace to recover when turned .

[Hilts]

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He's talking way too much....

When I think it was Hartley put out the Morison out thread I thought well OTT. But he was right. Morison has to go. Bonkers selection and comments about the team. No idea on team selection tactics and blaming individuals and not himself.

Morison Out.

[Tuerto]

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I thought at times our approach play and movement up front was very good , the two new lads were excellent, Collins looks okay as does Harris , our inability to defend a lead and concentrate in key moments Is a worry, we needs defenders with intelligence and pace to recover when turned .

First rule, don't get 'Turned'

[olderblue]

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He's an under 23s manager that has been given the opportunity to manage at Championship level.
Unfortunately it looks like he isn't ready to take the next step up.
Some of his comments have been bizarre and maybe the pressure is getting to him?
One thing for certain he hasn't stepped up to the plate and delivered.

5 at the back and keep playing shit players, Pack, Nelson etc, what did he expect

God we've got some bloody awful footballers at our club
We now need a manager that can keep the likes of Pack, Nelson, Bacuna Vaulks well away from the squad

[Father Dougal]

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Cheap words. If only Morison had some way or power of putting this right by not selecting the same failures every week. Oh wait.....

And for all his words he's also gutless as the only players he has publicly slagged off have been the youngsters.

If he ever had it he has well and truly lost it. He would never ever have been appointed had kieffer not scored a last minute winner v Huddersfield. We now have someone in charge the club don't trust, didn't want and probably won't even last the season out (I'd say 2 or 3 games at this rate before Hudson takes over). It's no way to run a club. Spectularly it's also destabilised the under 23s where he was actually doing OK. What a mess.

[Tuerto]

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When I think it was Hartley put out the Morison out thread I thought well OTT. But he was right. Morison has to go. Bonkers selection and comments about the team. No idea on team selection tactics and blaming individuals and not himself.

Morison Out.

A manager who who makes noise like he does wont last.

[Tuerto]

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Cheap words. If only Morison had some way or power of putting this right by not selecting the same failures every week. Oh wait.....

And for all his words he's also gutless as the only players he has publicly slagged off have been the youngsters.

If he ever had it he has well and truly lost it. He would never ever have been appointed had kieffer not scored a last minute winner v Huddersfield. We now have someone in charge the club don't trust, didn't want and probably won't even last the season out (I'd say 2 or 3 games at this rate before Hudson takes over). It's no way to run a club. Spectularly it's also destabilised the under 23s where he was actually doing OK. What a mess.

What's he going to say if we lose against Forest and perform poorly? He needs to be quiet, that's his team he's putting out there.

[LeningradCowboy]

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Are we still paying Neil Harris to sit at home on his sofa? He could hardly do worse than Morison.

[Father Dougal]

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What's he going to say if we lose against Forest and perform poorly? He needs to be quiet, that's his team he's putting out there.

Yep. And what team can he now select? Surely 11 changes really after those comments. But what if we lose next week? Bring todays 11 back in? Or just bomb a handful of them today thereby publicly pointing the finger at them for not trying or caring.

[tforturton]

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I honestly think he now has too many players! He struggled to find a settled team before the likes of Drameh and Doyle arrived. He now also has Wintle and Watters to think about. Four new players to fit into his system.

[Bothroyd's Diving Coach]

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I personally find SM to be very refreshing. Lets be honest, most of the squad aren't good enough and sometimes need a kick up the backside. Players get too much of an easy ride when things aren't going right in my opinion. Yes he has certainly crossed the line on occasion (see Isaak Davies), and I feel that he has stuck with the 5 at the back for too long. But as people know he's inexperienced and hopefully he will learn over time.

He has been left with a squad bereft of any quality and the job at hand is monumental. I for one am still behind Morison, but do think he needs to look at himself with tactics/selection a little more than he's doing.

[Father Dougal]

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I personally find SM to be very refreshing. Lets be honest, most of the squad aren't good enough and sometimes need a kick up the backside. Players get too much of an easy ride when things aren't going right in my opinion. Yes he has certainly crossed the line on occasion (see Isaak Davies), and I feel that he has stuck with the 5 at the back for too long. But as people know he's inexperienced and hopefully he will learn over time.

He has been left with a squad bereft of any quality and the job at hand is monumental. I for one am still behind Morison, but do think he needs to look at himself with tactics/selection a little more than he's doing.

I think the fear is there is a reason why managers very rarely come out and say their team don't care or aren't trying. The reason is players will not take kindly to being spoken about so publicly in that way.

OK we can debate on a message board that it will give them a kick up the backside and their response will be "maybe he is right I must play better" the more likely response will be "what a kn0b, let's get him sacked". We see it time and time again don't we.

As the difficulty now is if the same players come out and "prove him wrong" then what they are actually doing is proving him right that they weren't trying in the first place-but now they are. So it's difficult to see a way forward with it.

Maybe Morison is right and every other successful manager is wrong of course when it comes to dealing with the media and keeping things in the dressing room but time will tell I guess?