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Good to see a blog from the Managers on the web site.

 

I've always felt that everyone should have the opportunity to give their timely opinion publically on matches, form and tactics. Us fans have our forum, the Chairman has his blog, but the Managers and players don't have any avenues for comment apart from the match day programme, post match videos and the local press.

 

Would be good to see regular posts on the Managers blog, and maybe even introduce a Captains blog to get the players view on stuff.

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...the Managers and players don't have any avenues for comment apart from the match day programme, post match videos and the local press.


To be fair, that's quite a lot of avenues!

Let's hope it becomes regular thing. A captain's blog (log?) would be good. Or maybe some of the players would like to do post-match video interviews?
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agree, but they are all a bit out of date before they are available for people to read or view. Blogs express what is being thought about that very minute and they don't have to wait for a programme or press interview or the camera crew turning up at your office!

 

Captain's (b)Log - I like it!

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I agree, it's nice Jason has written this, and it's a great 'heart on the sleeve' 1st version, well done Jason! I'm the 1st to admit how easy it can be to be an 'armchair critic', but a lot more difficult to have all the answers when things aren't going quite as well as you would hope in a football team (or any other team come to that!), and even more difficult to make split-second decisions on the football pitch. What I have learnt however, in a number of years with kids football, is the difference it makes when kids are given nothing but encouragement. I therefore made a pact almost with myself, that opinion/advice to kids is always as constructive as I can make it, and always encouraging. And guess what result you get when you apply this? - eventually it's great! I've seen kids told from the touchline by their fathers they are in big trouble when they get home for not performing (and no it wasn't said 'tongue-in-cheek' on this occassion, and yes, I saw the poor kid's body-language change instantly and he became a 'shrinking violate').

 

What's this nutter on about I hear you say!! (and I wonder myself sometimes!), but to continue, I was introduced to a lad by his mother in the middle of a training session, as the lad had been eagerly watching from his garden fence for weeks and fancied a go!. 'Would it be ok if he joins you next week' his mother said, - ''of course'' I said! the 1st time I saw him play I must admit, I wondered where I was going to start, as it was a bit like trying to teach a new-born lamb to kick a ball! he listened though!, and boy how he listened intensly! whilst the others, all very streetwise of course, knew it all, and plodded. He eventually became our best defender, which taught me something too, as I thought a very large part of football ability was natural (and it is) but thought the rest couldn't be taught without the basic ability!

 

So, if I can remember where I'm going with this, I think there's a kid in all of us, and we all respond to encouragement more than critisism. Having said that, when we get older we also need a little kick up the backside occassionally (and we can even learn to do this for ourselves psyhologically in our own minds). It's easy to criticise about a section of play in a match, but a lot more difficult to remember when playing it's a lot harder than it looks in a fraction of a second that things happen. One thing I find the most difficult of all is not to get caught up in the 'gung-ho' approach in the heat of the moment, rather than playing a more meassured game by purely keeping the ball when that's all that's needed! It's easy also, to make a momentary hesitation/wrong decision, or get a pitch bobble that can potentially make you look a 'plonker Rodney', and then have to wait a whole week to make amends.

 

So onto the the last point about my 7 year-old lad from the garden fence, it was during a game that I realised our young boys were far too deep in their defending, so I shouted to our faithful defender 'push up, push up' and then went on to watching the game at the attacking end of the pitch. The next I knew, my faithful defender had gone totally AWOL on their counter-attack, and to my horror, he was on the floor, on all fours, doing 'push-up's'!!!

 

So the point here I think is, communication is important too!, and we should be careful what we shout!

 

Finally, I've done my normal 'Ronnie Corbet' story all round the houses to say yes, I agree with you guys, that the Managers, and the players should have the chance, should they wish, to have their say/take on the game, and answer possible criticism from the crowd, some of whom, inevitably, would never of played at anywhere near the level/pace of footy they are involved in, and may be enlightened a little.

 

Well done Jason, and look forward to reading your next blog, and maybe I'll risk the bite the next time I see you in the bar! (joking mate as I've already had a very congenial/interesting chat with you inadvertantly!).

 

Lets keep getting behind The Blues!

 

Steve.

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I think it was a great idea and a good read and I would give it 10 / 10 but I am not so sure it should or could be a regular thing. Jason's job is to manage the team. Interviews are a immeditae way of getting his view of events and can be slotted in quickly. To write a piece like he has, takes time, although enjoyable to do and read.

 

 

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A blog every time Jason or Grant or Lee have something they want to say/explain/share with us. Doesn't have to be long - a short paragraph or two as and when they have something to say.


I think some might say that Lee always has something to say!! excited
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" but I am not so sure it should or could be a regular thing. Jason's job is to manage the team. "

I'm sure Jason can make up his own mind on this Gazza.


I never said they couldn't and I never said t wasn't a good idea. I really don't know where you're ging with this BB or is it another one of your "lets dig Gazza out"?

[****!!****] it...I give up.

And I never said communication wasn't good either.




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I never said they couldn't and I never said t wasn't a good idea.


I never said you did, Did I?

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I really don't know where you're ging with this BB


Nowhere.

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or is it another one of your "lets dig Gazza out"?


Perish the thought Gazza.


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