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Little Richard Trident

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Interesting to observe Neil Craig take over the 3/4 time mid field huddle from Brian Royal, obviously not happy with what was happeining, and a obvious sign of a lack of confidence in Royal delivering the message. Not sure of clearance stats in last but seemed to be more effective.

Hardly an obvious sign that he has a lack of confidence in Royal, that is a far fetched deduction. He probably just had a couple of things he wanted to state to the midfielders alone.

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Hardly an obvious sign that he has a lack of confidence in Royal, that is a far fetched deduction. He probably just had a couple of things he wanted to state to the midfielders alone.

Yep. And he certainly made them known.

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Craig took over one of his line manages/coaches. In Any organisation this is not the way to manage. If a manager has no confidence in one of his assistants, he will take over. Royals results speak for themselves. Even with the troops he has at his disposal

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Senior coaches routinely step in to personally press their point when there is a critical part of the game in need of attention.

There's not much to be taken from that, though I'm sure the scavengers will pick over it plenty, and get in arguments about whether it means the midfield coach, the senior coach, or board member X and media personality Y are to blame.

That said, I don't personally have a lot of confidence in Brian Royal as a midfield coach. The clearances differential is just so alarming.

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Senior coaches routinely step in to personally press their point when there is a critical part of the game in need of attention.

There's not much to be taken from that, though I'm sure the scavengers will pick over it plenty, and get in arguments about whether it means the midfield coach, the senior coach, or board member X and media personality Y are to blame.

That said, I don't personally have a lot of confidence in Brian Royal as a midfield coach. The clearances differential is just so alarming.

Royal has been a massive problem I reckon. The first round I say jack viney doing things our midfield don't seem to do. Eg knowing when to take the ball and more importantly not take the ball in congested situations, getting into dangerous positions 5 feet from a scrimmage when we have numbers in there, getting body contact on a would be tackler.

You don't have to be Gary ablett to do this stuff.

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Senior coaches routinely step in to personally press their point when there is a critical part of the game in need of attention. There's not much to be taken from that, though I'm sure the scavengers will pick over it plenty, and get in arguments about whether it means the midfield coach, the senior coach, or board member X and media personality Y are to blame. That said, I don't personally have a lot of confidence in Brian Royal as a midfield coach. The clearances differential is just so alarming.

In the modern era, I'm not so sure it's routine. Stats, numbers and KPI's rule what the coaches talk about in between quarters and during the week. Head coaches usually leave the discussion to line manages. Head coaches usually address the whole group for a short period.

I would suggest Craig felt Royals message was not getting thru to the midfield. A blight on Royal I would suggest

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Interesting to observe Neil Craig take over the 3/4 time mid field huddle from Brian Royal, obviously not happy with what was happeining, and a obvious sign of a lack of confidence in Royal delivering the message. Not sure of clearance stats in last but seemed to be more effective.

Was Royal ashen faced?

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