It's not black and white. Some older players have limited scope left to improve / change and/or are in career wind down (aka the washed up players of Colin) - Norris, Kenny, Green, Brown, Varney, Tonge, Diouf, Pugh and (to a lesser extent) Warnock.
Byram has had a difficult season due to injury. Lees has in some ways gone forwards as a defender but backwards as a footballer. Austin hasn't really changed. Poleon increasingly looks like he just hasn't really quite got it. As a unit our midfield has lacked coherence or real evident plan of development, but in many ways that is down to how hopelessly lopsided our squad has been with no real width, and our consequent muddling through with formations. We still don't have any convincing strike partner for McCormack. What I would give credit to BMcD for is seeking to sign younger players with the potential and capability to improve and develop with us - Murphy, Wootton, Smith, bringing through Mowatt. They may not all have been complete hits, but it strikes me as an infinitely preferable approach to a Colin W*nker short-termist collection of last pay day journeymen. BMcD isn't a top, top class manager. But I seriously doubt we could get a top, top class manager in at present. He's probably about as good as we can get at the moment, so personally I would rather keep him, wipe this season off, and see if we can have (shock of shocks) a slightly more stable summer, shed a few of the Warnock deadweights and continue squad reconstruction. Easy for me to say when I'm not having to cough up my cash and go to the matches every week of course. With Cellino I very much doubt that is the path we go. I suspect the path will be rather more dramatic and Italian. I just hope we don't get in a lunatic like Di Canio or a double failure like Zola. On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Mark <wiscole...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Is the improvement of three players in an entire squad acceptable? I would > say "no". > Have any of our younger players improved such as Lees and Byram? > Cheers > Mark > El Presidente Wisconsin Whites > Leeds United > Chicago Fire > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:23:41 +0100 > Subject: Re: [LU] Sacking McDermott: Did Cellino Do The Right Thing In The > Wrong Way? > From: davidwool...@gmail.com > To: wiscole...@hotmail.com > CC: p...@cundell.com; simon.h...@york.ac.uk; leedslist@gn.apc.org > > I'd say Pearce has got better than he was under Warnock (he may have done > so anyway, through settling at the club). > > McCormack has got better (again you could argue he would have anyway, but > still). > > Smith has improved over the season. > > > > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Mark <wiscole...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Given that McDermott's primary function is to coach and develop players > that then improve our team, can anyone list players that have improved > under his tutelage? I don't see any reflection on the pitch that shows > anything is being accomplished during the long hours of training and > coaching each week. > This has nothing to do with spending money, who he inherited, who he has > acquired, etc and has everything to do with the basic requirements of his > position. > Cheers > Mark > El Presidente Wisconsin Whites > Leeds United > Chicago Fire > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: > http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org > > John 'Grampa' Sykes > Rest In Peace old lad > 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 > MARCHING ON TOGETHER > > > _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org John 'Grampa' Sykes Rest In Peace old lad 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 MARCHING ON TOGETHER
