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He is the type of midfielder we need, by that i mean quick, strong, good with the ball.
As many have pointed out, the only thing stopping him being a good player is his nut. Get steve black on the case, if he can sort his tackling, he would be exactly who i would want to pair Barton in midfield. Granero and Faurlin should not be depended on during this preseason, because as we have seen, ACLs are tough to come back from and to assume they will be fit for 30-40 games would be foolish IMO. Diakite still has a lot of work to do though before Hull.
Anyone else get the feeling the club played a blinder to get Steve Black signed up before this lot turned up for the first days training? Steve may want to re-negotiate his pay, much bigger job than he expected no doubt.
So Diakite is apparently beyond the magical powers of Mr Black, but not Adel?! Can anyone measure Black's motivational limits? Diakite just needs to learn Prem tackling etiquette & Adel needs a kick up the Rs. Diakite might have psychological problems, but so did & do many better footballers (Maradona, Best...). We need football training, not therapy, to improve our team, i.e. another Steve McClaren, not spooky Black!
Author of book about Venice, and football articles including personal QPR interviews with Bowles and Marsh. See website: www.dstandish.com
Anyone else get the feeling the club played a blinder to get Steve Black signed up before this lot turned up for the first days training? Steve may want to re-negotiate his pay, much bigger job than he expected no doubt.
Anyone else get the feeling the club played a blinder to get Steve Black signed up before this lot turned up for the first days training? NO! I don't get this Steve Black love in. Surely its HR's job and the individuals within the team to get motivated. Much rather TF spends his money on adding to the playing staff than on a psych and his therapeutic couch
Anyone else get the feeling the club played a blinder to get Steve Black signed up before this lot turned up for the first days training? NO! I don't get this Steve Black love in. Surely its HR's job and the individuals within the team to get motivated. Much rather TF spends his money on adding to the playing staff than on a psych and his therapeutic couch
Why can't we have both -- training and therapy where necessary? This isn't the 1950s. We now know there is such a thing as mental illness and surely it can't be a bad idea for the club to join the 21st century and acknowledge what the rest of society figured out decades ago. Nope 'arry cannot be a shrink. He isn't trained in it and it isn't the kind of thing that just takes a "swift kick in the pants" or a pocketful of cliches.
Take Suarez, don't you think he would be a much better player for Liverpool if he wasn't suspended for 10 games at the start of each season because he is such a headcase? Likewise, if Adel and Diakite could get attitude adjustments then they might just be better players and make the team better.
Why can't we have both -- training and therapy where necessary? This isn't the 1950s. We now know there is such a thing as mental illness and surely it can't be a bad idea for the club to join the 21st century and acknowledge what the rest of society figured out decades ago. Nope 'arry cannot be a shrink. He isn't trained in it and it isn't the kind of thing that just takes a "swift kick in the pants" or a pocketful of cliches.
Take Suarez, don't you think he would be a much better player for Liverpool if he wasn't suspended for 10 games at the start of each season because he is such a headcase? Likewise, if Adel and Diakite could get attitude adjustments then they might just be better players and make the team better.
The problem is that therapy is taking over football; we don't need both, just better training & if we make the mistake of accepting therapy is the answer, we will ignore the football by believing it's all about psychology. We are close to becoming a therapeutic club with all this weRtogether nonsense & Barton seems to have gone from a jailed nutter, to 10 game ban outcast, to chief Rs counselor. Suarez is a great footballer, but is also a victim of the therapeutic turn by breaking social taboos about biting; he should not have a 4 month ban & biting is no worse than a head but - 3 game ban. If we don't challenge this rubbish, we will suffer as Liverpool will re. Suarez, unless they manage to replace him - tough to do.
Author of book about Venice, and football articles including personal QPR interviews with Bowles and Marsh. See website: www.dstandish.com
The problem is that therapy is taking over football; we don't need both, just better training & if we make the mistake of accepting therapy is the answer, we will ignore the football by believing it's all about psychology. We are close to becoming a therapeutic club with all this weRtogether nonsense & Barton seems to have gone from a jailed nutter, to 10 game ban outcast, to chief Rs counselor. Suarez is a great footballer, but is also a victim of the therapeutic turn by breaking social taboos about biting; he should not have a 4 month ban & biting is no worse than a head but - 3 game ban. If we don't challenge this rubbish, we will suffer as Liverpool will re. Suarez, unless they manage to replace him - tough to do.
"biting is no worse than a head but - 3 game ban"
Seriously, football is a contact sport and certain things are expected to happen in the course of a game and heads and fists have been known to have been used, but biting? BITING? And not once but 3 times. You really can't see why that is a problem? FFS
Seriously, football is a contact sport and certain things are expected to happen in the course of a game and heads and fists have been known to have been used, but biting? BITING? And not once but 3 times. You really can't see why that is a problem? FFS
Anyone else get the feeling the club played a blinder to get Steve Black signed up before this lot turned up for the first days training? NO! I don't get this Steve Black love in. Surely its HR's job and the individuals within the team to get motivated. Much rather TF spends his money on adding to the playing staff than on a psych and his therapeutic couch
Tend to agree. It's surely an indictment of the coaching staff's failure to motivate the players sufficiently that we need to bring in people such as Black.
Hello, wake up and smell the coffee! This is a team that was in danger of slipping out of the playoffs after a decent unbeaten start. Then we get our act together and start improving with each game with the season ending in unexpected glory.
We had many team line up changes in those final weeks of the season, so what was the constant factor that made the difference?
I believe it was Steve Black that gave them confidence, desire and the teamwork ethic that made them winners.
I think it is vital that we have him back, see if he can do it over a longer period and help overcome the defeats that are likely in the higher division.
I think back to how badly it went under the Taffia, how moderate it was under Harry, how good it was under Mclaren (freed of most of the additional burden to a pure coaching role) and how things improved with Steve Blacks engagement at the of the season. That for me underlines the importance of adding really talented specialist coaching staff focused on just that. The alternative is employing Wally Downes, that hardly improved us following Mclarens departure now did it? Fat Wally is many things, but he is not a coach renown at the highest level with a track record of success in motivating under performing teams and individuals.
I can though imagine the Steve Black coaching discussion with Diakte turning into something from Fawlty Towers,
"Samba, this is a ball, this is a goal, this is an opposition player. I want you to go around the player and kick the ball in the goal. No, no lets try that again. This is the ball and that is the player, that is the goal. No, no can we try again. Look Samba you dont go around the ball and kick the player in to the goal. What do you mean that is what you have always done? No, lets try it the other way around. OK Samba, this is the ball, this is the player that is the goal...... and this is a red card." "Harry, sorry mate, nothing I can do with this one."
How do you persuade a millionaire to get off his arris and work or train hard or generally just put the PS4 controller down for a minute? Clubs are having to find ways of motivating those who have been de motivated by gallons of cash from a very early age. Hence the need for a nut doctor.
The performance didn't really improve at the end of the season though, just the results!
So you can say we were more confident and mentally stronger to get over the line or you can say we just had a bit more luck surely?
I would have thought if Steve Black was so integral players would have played to their potential and shown improved form?
I don't know exactly when he came in but some of the performances e.g. Charlton, Blackburn and particularly Sheff Weds were very poor. Compare the Wednesday defeat to Wembley. Down to 10 men we folded at Hillsborough whereas at Wembley we dug in and ground it out.
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