Harris (a wee rant, sorry)

[AfricanBluebird]

Some players are getting off scot free for sure and I don't know why they are constantly being picked. If a player isn't performing well / making more than their fair share of mistakes, then deal with it internally, not blame them publicly for entire losses.

However, when the whole team is underperforming it is indicative that there are wider problems, rather than just individual players out of form.

I think the play off run, despite not being particularly attractive footballing-wise, did show that the team is capable of doing much better.

The team is not performing well despite some obvious and proven quality, and ultimately the manager has to carry the can, something Harris refuses to take responsibility for.

[surge]

Regarding the OP, I was not a fan of that moment at all. Probably the worst thing he's done/said while being here.

Regarding players, I thought these tweets were interesting talking about Woods (formerly of Brentford now at Millwall) who has not been playing that well:

https://twitter.com/secondtierpod/st...1287036149761: Millwall midfielder Ryan Woods has come in for a bit of criticism recently.

Fans think he should be doing a lot better.

However @OmerMFC from @ThatMillwallPod doesn't think he should be scapegoated.

The problem isn’t Woods it’s the players around him. Rowett needs time to build a team to fit his play style, which is difficult atm

Exactly, been saying this myself. He’s still at large working with a Neil Harris squad!

Isn't that exactly the same situation here? Threads about Ojo and Wilson not lighting things up, admission that they could be doing better but identifying that players around them aren't suited to playing the same style because they're from the former manager, the new manager needing time to build a squad to fit their style of play which is difficult at the moment.

Question then becomes whether Harris is capable of taking a jump away from what he was doing at Millwall or whether we're never going to be a team that a former Brentford player can work in. Answer may be in what Harris has been saying in his slightly less pressurised press conferences: i) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50459523
ii) https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...-neil-17843939

Still, it seems unlikely Harris is the man for us now, but still interesting to read those statements as they give clues to what board is looking for in a manager and what may come next.