He’s gone

[regis80]

It’s all good and we’ll saying players should be ashamed of themselves for lacking commitment but we don’t really know what goes on behind the scenes. If what we all think is that the players never bought into his style (which isn’t difficult to believe) and the players tried to communicate this to Val and he refused to budge.. then it’s all down to him. If all us fans can see, surely the players can too.. only person not to is VI.
Thank you VI, genuinely hope you all the best apart from playing against us.
Now, we need to get our season back on track. It could well be a damage limitation exercise for remainder of the season. Unless the top teams mess it up big time.

[Prando]

It’s all good and we’ll saying players should be ashamed of themselves for lacking commitment but we don’t really know what goes on behind the scenes. If what we all think is that the players never bought into his style (which isn’t difficult to believe) and the players tried to communicate this to Val and he refused to budge.. then it’s all down to him. If all us fans can see, surely the players can too.. only person not to is VI.
Thank you VI, genuinely hope you all the best apart from playing against us.
Now, we need to get our season back on track. It could well be a damage limitation exercise for remainder of the season. Unless the top teams mess it up big time.

Valid points Regis buddy. I believe that contracted players, notwithstanding their disagreement with the manager’s tactics and demands, should perform to the best of their ability in acknowledgment of the ticket paying fans.
Sadly, this ‘players power’ theme is evident throughout modern professional football.
Still we will maintain our season tickets as the love of the Baggies surpasses my dogma!

[regis80]

Valid points Regis buddy. I believe that contracted players, notwithstanding their disagreement with the manager’s tactics and demands, should perform to the best of their ability in acknowledgment of the ticket paying fans.
Sadly, this ‘players power’ theme is evident throughout modern professional football.
Still we will maintain our season tickets as the love of the Baggies surpasses my dogma!

I agree to an extent that contracted players must and ‘Val must be obeyed’.. 😄 joking aside they should do what they are paid to do. But there has to come a point that a manger has to reflect on his tactics and realise what isn’t working and change tact fast. If a company director kept making the same losses and not listening to employees as to where the problems lie, then there’s only one outcome here. Val probably is being too oppressive, stubborn and hasn’t worked, if we were in the top two then it be different.. but we are not, and teams have sussed us out.. because Val is Val doing his same thing.

[renno]

Its pretty straight forward in my book. You do as you're told by the manager. What has likely happened is player power has ruled again because of 1 lean spell results wise. Many a side has come down from the PL and struggled and been relegated again. I said this to the Ipswich Town fans a few years ago who were banging on about Mick McCarthy and I will say it to yourselves- Be careful what you wish for! You've had a manager who had the audacity to want to manage and ensure players conformed. A manager who didn't pander to the modern day professional footballers' ego. Get him back to Oakwell!!

[renno]

Its pretty straight forward in my book. You do as you're told by the manager. What has likely happened is player power has ruled again because of 1 lean spell results wise. Many a side has come down from the PL and struggled and been relegated again. I said this to the Ipswich Town fans a few years ago who were banging on about Mick McCarthy and I will say it to yourselves- Be careful what you wish for! You've had a manager who had the audacity to want to manage and ensure players conformed. A manager who didn't pander to the modern day professional footballers' ego. Get him back to Oakwell!!

Be careful what you wish for! You had a manager who didn’t pander to egos. At £20-40000 grand a week you shouldn’t need an arm around the shoulder and your ego massaged.