Ross Hannah

Quoted from Tom13

I'd also add that Hannah had a bloody long run of games in the team last year and played pretty much no different to how he played yesterday last year.

Quoted from grimsby pete

I have been watching football and supporting the Mariners for nearly 60 years now,

I played as a striker and feel I know what goes through ones head and what is needed to be good at your job,

So I will give you my opinion on our strikers past and present ( for what it is worth )

John Lewis will never be prolific we all know he works his socks off and I would have loved to play along side him,( at this level he should be scoring a few more goals to keep his place in the team )

Ross Hannah is a goal scorer but he needs the ball played in the right places for him to put them away, we do not seem to be able to do that very well,

Andy Cook was the type of player that needed the boss to put his arms around him and keep telling him how good he is, that did not happen, So he lacked confidence

Dayle Southwell showed promise and deserved a bit more game time to prove his worth, he never got it,( I would have given him another contract and then loaned him to Boston )

Some of you will say, why should a manager have to tell a player how good he is all the time,

Well it works at Chelsea , Lampard was told nearly every day he was the best midfield in the world,

He did not believe his boss but it gave him confidence to do things and score goals,

It is the managers job not only to get the team to play a certain way but to make sure that all the players understand their role and that they have the confidence to fulfil it,

Once all the players understand what their role in the formation is and they are happy and confident to do it, you just might get some consistency and some reward for every bodies hard work ie promotion.

I feel a lot of the above is not been done , so if the said manager finds himself out of a job he can only blame himself,

One final point if the manager keeps on about the other side, you start to believe they are better than they are and the fear factor creeps in,

Top managers might mention one or two things to look out for but they will tell their players never mind about them,

You go out and work hard and show them how good we are.

Quoted from Maringer

This thread is just flipping bizarre.

From reading the past few pages I've learnt that, apparently, when our strikers miss easy chances (cf. Hannah yesterday), it is because they haven't either:

a) been played enough
b) been encouraged enough

However, it is never:

c) their fault for missing easy chances

When they don't score enough goals or even look like scoring (cf. Cook and Southwell over the past couple of seasons), it is because they haven't either:

a) been played enough
b) been encouraged enough

but is never:

c) their fault for not playing well

If they move to a different club and begin to score some goals, it is apparently because they have either:

a) been played enough
b) been encouraged enough

but is nothing to do with the fact that they are:

c) playing at a lower level against teams filled mostly with amateurs instead of plenty with professionals

If you want to criticise the players for not being good enough, no problem, but let's not create some psychobabble bullshite that we're missing chances because Hurst hasn't given the players a cuddle and a pat on the head before the game.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Didn't you watch them last season? The best Hannah played was with Cook against Huddersfield.

Quoted from barralad

Yeah-Did you?

As I recall the whole team played out of their skins against Huddersfield. I'd have been very surprised if they hadn't got themselves pumped up for that game....