Quote:Mayor West
How about this theory. The players all like JK and respect him having been head coach when we won the prem title. When he is appointed DOR he left the coaching to the new coaches who wanted to bring in some new ideas and methods.JK was ok with this. These didn't work or players weren't comfortable enough and not all implementing them. The coaches refused to drop the unsuccessful stuff even though the players weren't happy thus starting the slide in form. Then a split starts to form with those that can adapt and those that won't. The spiral continues after JK and coaches get contract extensions with the players thinking how are we going to get out of this position if nobody listens to us. By all accounts the news of JKs departure was not celebrated on Monday , quite the opposite it seems. Could it be that it's the coaches not the DOR that are unpopular but ultimately it's the DOR that's culpable.
I think that's quite a likely scenario.
I doubt even Ellis at his penny-pinching worst would have put JK in charge if the players didn't have a certain degree of respect for him, and I can certainly see a situation where the players don't like the new coaching ideas, particularly coming from inexperienced coaches in a couple of cases.
However even if that was the case, as DOR JK is/was responsible for managing the direction of the coaches, and managing the interaction between coaches and players. If he doesn't/didn't do that to the extent that there's a split and not everyone is playing to the game-plan, for me that's effectively losing the dressing room.