Quote Originally Posted by Carlton_Pie View Post
It's obviously a strategic move by SM and his team that Saunders delivers in play messages. During the game, any message must be quick, direct and to the point, maybe these are strengths of Saunders. SM comes across as a more placid, thinking guy and I'd imagine he does a lot of the team meetings and communications during the week...

All good leaders identify the strengths within their team and utilise them to the best of their abilities
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This thread wasn’t a ‘have a dig at Maynard’ it was an observation on how the dynamics work as, from memory, we’ve not heard from Saunders in press conferences etc…only seen him on club videos of training along side. So it’s interesting that the ‘on the pitch’ stuff is delegated to him and it’s obviously playing to his strength.

Not sure why people are so quick to jump up and down over simple tactical observations. Yes, Maynard looked out of place, for want of a better choice of words during that mini team meeting, but it cuts the other way too. Saunders took total control and obviously the messages got through clearly.