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Yes, 2 years ago. Doesn't that count as "years ago"? Or maybe the pandemic has just warped my sense of time.
Anyway, this is the interview: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wal...g-19914167.amp
This was published in Feb 2021 but he's talking about the changes he made when he first came in in Feb 2020.
At the end of the day I get that some people don't like his style or his personality, but it staggers me how little credit he gets for the job he's doing. Recent results would suggest the players are buying into it too. It says a lot that someone like Drameh, who's been working under a genius like Bielsa, comes out and says he rates Morison as a coach.
I really hope he gets the job, so what If he is arrogant.
The football is much better (at times) different players are scoring goals and not just one player.
I go to watch the football not group hugs with the players.
Very true
I'm not saying I'd have picked this side, nor to play that way, but I do understand why he did, given the amount of games we have in such a short space of time.
Coventry are a decent footballing side and from memory gave us the runaround up there. Perhaps SM thought contain first then bring on the cavalry if things don't work out.
Difficult to argue with him really given the way things panned out.
No issue with rotating, we looked leggy on Saturday. The only thing I would question is starting with Watters and Davies - I defy anyone to tell me they saw that pairing before kick off and thought it could work. Especially when the game started and we proceeded to just smash balls up to them.
Morison said he wasnt expecting Watters to be Jordan Hugill, well maybe his instructions to the rest of the team werent that clear because we were just going direct from back to front until Tommy Doyle come on.
Thats another result weve got but didnt really play well, much like Barnsley. Defended well but lets not kid ourselves the football is that much better than Micks first season when he was grinding out results.
How many games did the Under 23’s win in the seasons before Morison took over ? Some people (including Danny Gabidon) just cant bear to give him any praise whatsoever for what he has done both with the Under 23’s and first team in such a short space of time.
https://www.teamtalk.com/leeds-unite...-steve-morison
“Some of the stuff you see on the pitch from me is definitely from Marcelo Bielsa and his coaching staff,” he told the club’s programme, as cited by the Yorkshire Evening Post.
“Their feedback was for me to be more aggressive and play on the front foot and I think the manager here has brought the best out of me since I’ve been here. His desire to get me in was the main reason that I came here.
“As a player, you always want to feel wanted and it seemed like the perfect place for me to come and play. The emphasis has been on being positive and wanting to attack and he’s filled me with a lot of confidence to go and express myself.”
Ah the pedant speaks. How about this for a selection of words. You choose the one you like best: disappointing, worrying, sad, depressing, pathetic, frustrating, typical (of this board), ill-informed, bloody well wrong. (No doubt this is where is insert another word you decree is more reasonable.)
I agree with you mostly and feel he was a bit harsh, but I suppose he could argue we could have conceded in those last nine minutes in the first half and then lost the game, you have to make the change when you see it's wrong not wait until half time so as not to upset the player.
Where I feel he was wrong was public criticism on Sky Sports, he could have said things weren't working as expected and we needed to make the change.
I agree what you suggest about the public criticism bit. For me it's as though he actually relishes it and it's done for Morison's benefit rather than anything else. I'm beginning to wonder if he has a psychopathic personality; it wouldn't be entirely surprising, many successful people do.
I think it's staggering that so many are lining up to put the boot into Morison. The team he picked and managed has just won 4 out of 5 league games, including probably the most crucial match we have played in a number of years, which incidentally produced a 4-0 win and the best performance this season.
Why talk about the points his team accrued before the present run and what relevance does it have ? He needed to recruit players because those he inherited weren't up to the job and all the signs are that he got it spot on.
Nobody could defend MM because his tactics were absurd and the results as bad as it could get. But Morison ? Yes I get it that he's not everybody's cup of tea but football is a results-based business and it looks like he has steered the club away from what could have been a potential relegation nightmare.
It was glaringly obvious that front pairing wouldn't work. If he wanted to rest Hugill then Uche or Collins should have started with Davies, not Max. He was set up to fail in that system without any creativity in midfield to supplement his game. All Morison had to say after the game was that HE got it wrong, but instead he sold the young lad down the river.