The management team…

[Floodlightclimber]

With all this said and done, at the end of last season the body language between SM and McGoldrick was awful whereas yesterday when he was subbed off, he hugged SM as the last thing he did before he got into the dugout and both had huge grins. I don’t think the players have an issue with SM and we saw that with some of the reactions after the few good results at the end of last season.

[Boomerangpie]

Personally i couldn't care less who does the team talks, We won and that is all that matters.. Ive not been a fan of SM, but he seems to have more tactical awareness from that of Williams..

Not a fan of SM. Not a fan of LW!

Which Notts manager were you last a fan of SA?

[durhampie]

Not a fan of SM. Not a fan of LW!

Which Notts manager were you last a fan of SA?

Like many others i was not impressed with the appointment of Maynard. But, he now has is own team and is starting to look the part. As for Williams, he was a one trick pony who couldn't change direction.. I expect him to be sacked by Swansea before long..

[upthemaggies]

Maynard took the bulk of the criticism when things were going south, he should be getting the bulk of the praise when things are going well.

We can talk about recruitment but you have to man manage a squad full of egos, get the best out of them and get them working together on a day to day basis and it won't be the head of the recruitment that's doing that. As for the management team, Maynard will have the final say. Everybody is important at the club but ultimately it comes down to the manager/head coach as to whether you're going to be successful or not, otherwise Manchester United would not have been struggling (relatively) for the past decade. They've spent the cash, had the players, but never had the right fit where it matters.

[jackal2]

Maynard took the bulk of the criticism when things were going south, he should be getting the bulk of the praise when things are going well.

Fair comment.

I felt that Maynard desperately needed a strong start to this season otherwise the fan disquiet really would have begun to grow, and a strong start is exactly what he's delivered.

Five games is too small a sample size to start drawing any conclusions, but perhaps the most noticeable thing so far is that we are looking much more solid defensively. In fact, we would be even more solid if we cut out some of the overplaying and unnecessary risk-taking in our own third of the field.

[LeftPeg_Pie]

Don’t think it remotely matters either way who’s doing what. Match day is only a percentage of the work that’s done and at the minute the work being done is working.

Similar to people who get stressed out about mangers not ranting and raving and showing ‘passion’ on the touch line vs ones who simply stand and take it all in… just a proper nonsense worry.

[OP67]

Waht did he need to say? He said in the post match interview that they executed the game plan perfectly. The players look like they have a bit more freedom to play compared to LW's strict you have to be here when he's there patterns of play.

[Boomerangpie]

I would suggest the fans were less impressed with the result and performances last season than when he was appointed and rightly so.

Too small a sample size but you have to be impressed with Maynard this season however unimpressed people were last season.

We need to talk about our recruitment. Recruitment is key. Manchester United have spent the cash but their recruitment has been poor and that has hamstrung every manager they have had in recent times.

Our recruitment has been good season after season and to date it looks again good this season.

[Carlton_Pie]

Not criticising…just an observation that Maynard seems pretty much ‘ignored’ on the sideline by the players in-game. Don’t know why it was more noticeable today, but at every stoppage, throw-in etc…one of the coaches…Saunders (Matt) was the one the players were looking to. At all times. I understand he may want to step back and let the other coaches do exactly that, but during one injury stoppage around the half hour mark and the, now usual, team over to the dugout for drinks etc… Maynard seemed totally lost as they circled around Saunders.
Maynard stood there, went to sit down, got back up, retrieved a bottle of water and stood alone again. Didn’t speak to one player at all.

Again, not criticising, just a pure observation that seemed even more obvious today, that the players were gravitating towards Saunders instead.

Can’t knock ‘ the management team’ with the start to the season so it obviously works…and long may it continue!

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

[hissingdwarf]

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

This, this this.

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.