The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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I’ve been waiting for his vision to arrive but so far I’ve seen nothing just a group of individuals who look like they’ve spent very little time training together.
After every poor performance I promise myself I’m not going to watch the post match interview and do it anyway.
Anyway today I’m going to cheer and clap and pray that everything falls into place.
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Well, you’ve made
your plan, but we don’t know that game, perhaps I’d listen to your interviews
but your logics far too lame and I’d only waste three valuable minutes of
my life with your insincerity.
You see Doddsy, I’m just searching for the young goal rebels, and I cant
find them anywhere. Where have you hidden them?
Maybe you should welcome the new goal vision
(From ‘There, There, Mike Dodds’ by Dexys Midnight Runners)
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I wonder if today, will be a slow news day ???
Maybe…… Maybe not
To be more specific: he says he will take the heat as long as they perform . He references the Colchester match as the polar opposite of performing . There have been 2 occasions when he has blamed the players collectively , Doncaster and Colchester . Both matches he felt they had not performed . The remaining matches he reverted to his “ bits I liked and bits I didn’t like “ mantra.
I acknowledge it feels a bit like riddle solving with his interviews but this is my take and I therfore don’t see any hypocracy on this point .
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I guess we have been spoilt with Ainsworth and Bloomfield who never blamed the squad publicly when things never went their way. This allowed them to overachieve with the teams that they had. They knew they could make a mistake but be given chances to learn from / get feedback behind closed doors and not in front of a camera lens.
But there is a massive gap in his press conferences where he takes any ownership on anything that didn’t work. For that reason, the squad is always going to be on their guard against him.
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I think the key point here is Gareth is a superb leader and MANAGER, Blooms is a promising MANAGER, whereas Dodds is just a COACH.
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Yes but if it’s on the BBC it can’t be the true facts.
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I’m reasonably certain Ainsworth and Bloomfield did but they were more generic e.g. “ That performance was nowhere near good enough today, we will go away speak about it and address it internally” or words to that affect.
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I can’t watch the pre match or post match interviews anymore.
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Me neither. It’s too much like watching a politician dodging answering a question with honesty.
Before the thought police come for me, I accept that using politician and honesty together in a sentence is probably an oxymoron.
I do agree with the fact that MB and GA were consitant in not blaming the players as individuals but they certainly used to bemoan a poor performance publically . They may have concentrated on reffering the “performance” but we all knew it was the players resposible for it.
Dodds didn’t single out any indivudual either. The only difference I can see is he put the emphesis on the players being responsible for the performance . There are managers out there who do single players out , I disagree with this but it isn’t what he did .
As far as not giving himslef personal blame , I challenge you to find much footage of GA or MB saying “ that was on me “ if they ever did it was very rare . I remember people on this very forum saying that GA must have been at a different match during some winless runs with him . His post match interviews would be bizzarly positive to the point that it seemed ludicrus in the circumstances . I never remember him taking the blame .
Dodds was clearly angry after the Colchester match . It’s so long since we have heard a post match interview from GA & MB and even longer since they did one after a shocker . I would suggest you are being a little unfair on Dodds and seing GA & MB through rose tinted glasses (quite common on here ).
Yes his interviews are often bonkers but I have heard managers be far more direct and accusitory than he was. He has backed Van Sass publically several times and the rest of them frequently by insisting they need time to learn .
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To me he often sounds like a very confident man for whom football is a practical process and wins may or may not come, but as long as the employees are doing what is asked of them entertainment and excitement is more for those ‘external’ elements (ie the fans .). I’m hoping the win on Saturday is the start of a good run, rather than an accident caused by late arriving footballers who don’t yet understand what he is trying to achieve.
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I think we have just been used to our managers being a “glass half-full” rather than a “glass half-empty” type of person.
I’m not going to lie, I don’t think Dodds is our person to take us forward, the way he is on the touchline, in front of camera etc just doesn’t look comfortable. He’s prob amazing at being given a problem and finding drills or activities in training that will fix them but he either doesn’t have the support or he doesn’t want to ask for help from other / outside sources. I also think that something was off with Udoh’s departure but that’s for another discussion
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I am now far from sure either . I will now judge him over the next few games as I think he has bought himself that with Saturdays result . I accept the odds are he will still fail . I am trying only going to criticize him fairly though . Treating him like everything he does is wrong is not very fair.
You have your take on his comments after the Colchester game and that’s fine . There is a lot of nitpicking going on on here though and selective memories too . MB & GA were not perfect , they also made mistakes and had bad runs . Yes they are both far better public speakers but I feel that all the bad about Dodds is constantly compared to the best bits about GA&MB . Their shortcomings having been conveniently forgotten .
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GA would regularly say the exact words ‘that one was on me’. He’d always take the blame for a bad performance. I don’t recall him ever criticising a player either overtly or indirectly.
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I remember him saying it but probably twice in 10 years .
I am more than happy to be proved wrong but I doubt you can.
I also remember Dodds saying he had made a mistake on one occasion last season .
I remember Bloomfield being accused of being “out of his depth”,referred to as the “Brill cream boy” , “a beaten man”,and people saying they couldn’t watch his interviews when he was struggling . I remember GA getting abuse during winless runs and people being flabbergasted at how out of sink some of his interviews were .
All Dodds is compared to is the Bloomfield of last season up until Christmas and Ainsworth as our most successfull manager . Their actions and performances during tough times duly forgotten.
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It did seem curious that Udoh was pretty much starting all the games, then suddenly was sold in a hurry to a lower tier.
People have leapt on him wanting to move for family reasons, but no idea if that’s truth or guesswork.
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I think the people claiming we are rewriting history are the ones rewriting history.
Some of the things they claim were said on here about Gaz and Blooms during bad runs sound far more Facebook than Gasroom.
I dont recall our two previous managers singling out players except to congratulate or support. They were players themselves and it was part of our culture.
They often liked to claim the other team were better resourced with good managers but also constantly said they would as a management team learn lessons from defeats.
And surely, the idea that we were mightily slagging off our two most successful mamagers on here…makes us slagging MD off par for the course?
You can’t have it both ways.
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