How is it a weird response?
You wanted to school me about leadership of organisations as a way of supporting Scott's handling of the season.
You specifically made it about me, inferring both that I dont know anything and that we should defer to the all knowing experts, it seeming to be the case that you might consider yourself to be one of the all knowing experts.
I was simply sarcastically illustrating how, if it was up to me, the person who knows nothing and is not an expert, we would not have wasted a year to get to the point that the coach is 'laying down the law' or 'hitting people in the eyes' one season into his tenure.
You've lost yourself in your own strawman. I don't recall, even while being hyperbolic, suggesting that being angry, aggressive, rude or disrespectful toward anyone is how Scott or anyone else should approach this situation.
The reason the strawman is important is because it seems to be the reason you can't envisage any approach, other than for Scott to leave the rot in the place. Everything else seems to involve an unreasonable confrontation.
There are at least 2 major problems with this position:
1) influential senior players asked for intervention. Scott had a licence to demand change immediately but decided not to be the firm hand these players (one of whom was made captain) requested;
2) there is no need for confrontation. I assume Lyon doesn't give 2 shits about anything that's gone past that is inconsistent with what he expects. It's made clear what the expectations are and you can forget about a spot if you fall below those expectations. By the time he is confrontational, if at all, I doubt there is anyone who disagrees with him. There is then team selection. Contrast these standards and the immediate implementation of sustainable football with our football becoming ultimately less sustainable because our transition game is currently further from where it needs to be than it was 12 to 24 months ago.
Why am I so confident in my position?
Take a step back and see what is staring you and everyone else in the face. Scott cracked the shits post R24.
Does that sound like he is satisfied with standards throughout the season?
Did he do that because of 1 or 2 games? Our last 6 weeks was deplorable. There wasn't much before that this side of the by. Honestly, if I haven't already said it in this thread, we are worse now than at any point post Knight. When I say that I'm talking about the overall style of play. I don't care for results the oddities of a draw can throw up unless we're ticking off fundamentals (e.g. the hard ball, forward pressure, tackling intensity and 2 way defensive substance). Everything else is noise, junk that confuses commentators and experts like David King.
You and others are patting Scott on the back for being a year late and letting things get to the point that he needed to be confrontational.
You're also operating on the assumption
that this becomes the start of the new dawn that finally gets us on track.
At this point in time that's hope based on Scott now starting to implement change. How about we see some of that change first? To this point everything he has done is geared toward less focus on hardball, less focus on forward pressure and the defensive transition.
Are you starting to see how the players standards were allowed to be poor? I believe actions speak louder than words. So when you let players get away with a system of play that is weaker than what it was, you're sending a signal that they are fundamentally on the right track. Once you do that you're not improving anything, people dont just change because you tell them they should. I've got enough life experience to know that to be true.
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