Izaak Davies

[Dorcus]

Fundamentally/Philosophically I agree with a lot of what you say but am playing a bit of Devil’s Advocate with this reply.
For a long time you’ve been calling for us to go to our youth, but now that we have you have quickly decided that the young manager in his very first senior role, that has given the youth more first team game time than anyone before him, is no longer appropriate for the job because he called a young player out publicly?
Is it possible that in managerial terms he is in a similar position to the youth in that he might still be learning what works and what doesn’t. For example how often in the past has he had to deal with media interviews that will go to tens or hundreds of thousands of people (don’t think it can be easy doing things over video call either).
The young players aren’t ripping up trees at the moment but the majority of us are calling for them to be given time, so perhaps he deserves something similar?
He’ll make mistakes and he’s fighting to keep a job he has been working towards since he finished playing. Good leaders don’t come off the shelf and they learn as they grow. Good leaders of good leaders make allowances for errors as part of that growth.

You make a good point in terms of Morison's learning curve but for me humility is a fundamental attribute.

Apart from being so very disappointed in him for his public attack on Izaac Davies I'm also getting increasingly disappointed in his tactical decisions. I too was a big supporter of him when he was given the job as manager.

For me, his reluctance to criticize senior pros at the expense of the youngsters is problematic and very telling. If anyone deserved any criticism from him at the Bournemouth match it was Bacuna but he failed to react against him.

I get the impression he's a bit fragile when it comes to anyone pointing the finger at him and I think he used Davies as a whipping boy. Rather than admitting he put out the wrong team and made a mistake in picking Bacuna in the first place.