Re: Coach knows best : Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:17 pm  

Trojan Horse wrote:

I thought the same on Hooley. Was expecting big things but he was as you say totally lost at sea. If I recall I believed at the time it was to do with physical maturity. He was very slight as a young lad and i think this is what stopped him breaking through and making and impact.

Yep, players develop at different rates. I remember Fev taking on two different 21-year-old forwards on loan, one was Jamie Peacock who didn't make much impression, the other was Jordan Baldwinson who looked like a future international but has since bounced around a variety of clubs and though a solid player is clearly no better than a run-of-the-mill championship player.

I've seen Hooley a few times this season for Batley and he's played really well, not saying he's going to make it back to SL level but he's come on a lot. Not sure if the return of reserves is the answer but you can't always tell at 20/21 how good the player is going to be at 24/25.

Re: Coach knows best : Mon Oct 04, 2021 8:07 pm  

vastman wrote:

Another player ruined by his coach was Mark Field.

That was awful to watch. He'd been a key member of the 2004 squad but suffered the following year in a much weaker set up. McNally just kept him at the back week after week for way too long. Certainly added to the eventual loss of McNally as coach IMHO. What ever happened to Field?

Re: Coach knows best : Tue Oct 05, 2021 6:28 am  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

That was awful to watch. He'd been a key member of the 2004 squad but suffered the following year in a much weaker set up. McNally just kept him at the back week after week for way too long. Certainly added to the eventual loss of McNally as coach IMHO. What ever happened to Field?

Don’t know.

But despite CC’s short comings had Field been a young player today he wouldn’t have been thrown to the wolves and would have had a long career in the game imho.

When I say wolves I mean the Trinity fans who turned on the poor lad, it was shameful,

When you look at what McNally did in 2005 you have to wonder whether 2004 was a pure fluke or that he’d been possessed, it was like two different people.

Re: Coach knows best : Tue Oct 05, 2021 6:42 am  

vastman wrote:

One final point. We tend to assume coaches release players because they don’t rate them. I don’t think that is always the case. In a sport where cash is finite I suspect it’s far more often the case that they do rate them but they rate someone else even more and that has to be the one where the investment goes. That’s life I suppose.

I think that's what happened with Gwaze and Aydin. It's still early days, but it's looking like the club made the right call.

Re: Coach knows best : Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:12 pm  

Was it Cain Southernwood who went to Bradford, I seem to remember him going and it was the biggest mistake ever? Feel free to correct me on this is my memory is not the best.

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Re: Coach knows best : Thu Oct 07, 2021 9:31 am  

inside man wrote:

Was it Cain Southernwood who went to Bradford, I seem to remember him going and it was the biggest mistake ever? Feel free to correct me on this is my memory is not the best.

Pretty sure he did.