TheBunnet

Reading the Archie-McCoist-Modern player thread and if ‘modern players’ are tough to manage what management style is needed to reverse the currrent teams fortunes? We have two former thistle defenders who are the current custodians of the team and anyone watching this season can see we have problems with defending. We have current players on jagzone saying it’s a positive dressing room even when they have a bad game. We have a team that is inconsistent with its results so what needs to change? Do they need a boot up the rear as would have happened with the likes of Lambie and Gerry Collins or are modern players too soft to get the hair dryer treatment? Next part to the question, you have ex players or out of work managers working as pundits who are quick to say what’s needed at a club to get results. Guys like Mccoist, as a former striker didn’t exactly get his rangers team firing in loads of goals. Alex Rae on the radio every night professing how to fix Scottish football but can’t hold down a management job or get results when he is working as a manager. Why do guys who we’re decent players in their generation find it hard to get the best out of their players from the next generation? Then you have guys like Jim mcintyre who had their teams banging it long to strikers without success, Craig levein a former centre back has teams with defensive styles who counter attack and Jackie had the the thistle team playing attacking football similar to a style he would have enjoyed as an attacking fullback. So the question is, what type of style is needed to get the team winning games again? And what type of management is needed to get the best out of this current squad of ‘modern’ players and win more games?