Izaak Davies

[the other bob wilson]

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.

Morison’s public pronouncements have been odd at times with his “rant” about stats being a case in point, so I can agree to a degree, but he’s been in the game long enough to have learned that it is very rare for a manager to be as critical about any of their players as he was with a twenty year old who has about ten career first team appearances to his name. I’d be far more sympathetic if Morison had kept what he said in the dressing room - I daresay there’s not a pro playing the game who hasn’t been read the riot act by their manager after a game, but there aren’t many who’ve had a public dressing down like Isaak Davies has now. I just think our manager seriously misjudged the situation in a way that you wouldn’t expect from someone who has been in the game for not far short of twenty years.