Quote Originally Posted by the_anticlough View Post
What actually went wrong for Maynard?

We got ourselves into the top 3, but then over the final dozen games or so, with players coming back from injury, we proceeded to throw away a pole position over a run-in that wasn't so hard really.

Yes, our squad was flawed and unbalanced but the competition was no great shakes either - the importance of the games should have dragged out better performances from the likes of Macari, Palmer, Grant, Jatta, Traore etc etc.

What was it? Fear and nerves? Overcomplicating things with tactics and team changes? Poor team spirit? Just plain old poor leadership? Bad training and preparation? Poor instructions to the players?

I suppose it doesn't matter, we have a chance at a new start now. But we should've done significantly better than we did and it's a curiosity as to exactly why we/he/they blew it so badly
I suspect it was a combination of all those things. The last 16 games were pretty disastrous - we maybe managed 4 decent performances in that time, and there went the season. The fact this happened after the Saunders bros left seems to be very telling - wasn’t there one game when SM was out at halftime warming up the subs? It does feel like the Reedtz had already made up their minds by then. Hard to disagree with them, but SM can leave with his head held high. He came up short, but no one can fault his commitment. We do need a more inspirational leader next time, though.