The Michael Jolley Effect

i think you'd probably find there has been, is and will be, a complete sea change in the management and coaching of the first team squad and to an extent the youth team.
my guess is that it is attention to every detail and the sir david brailsford approach to coaching. that is to say ' to improve things 100%, you have to improve 100 things by 1%'
this would include the penalty competition and various other changes in the training regime, the tactical changes to each game to counter the opposition, provision of nutritional plans for each player, the discovery that mitch rose takes the best throw in, recruiting fox and mcsheffery etc etc

He's trebled our points tally to just under a point a game. We were at about 0.3 a game before he stepped in. As already pointed out, 2 late goals which have brought 4 points is a good sign of a team fighting to the end. I think his impact has been as much psychological as tactical.

Quoted from ginnywings

He's trebled our points tally to just under a point a game. We were at about 0.3 a game before he stepped in. As already pointed out, 2 late goals which have brought 4 points is a good sign of a team fighting to the end. I think his impact has been as much psychological as tactical.

and i think you'll probably find that's deliberate ginny. in terms of tactics, equipment, testing, training , warm ups etc etc the levels operated at nowadays are almost at optimum level. it's very difficult to find ways to make even marginal improvements in those areas.
now in the area of sports pyschology and the mind, i think its fair to say that the surface has only been scratched (which goes without saying really, when you consider that we don't fully understand how the brain works). so if there is a dramatic edge to be had its in the area of sports pyschology and 'training the brain'.

one aspect i've pondered since his arrival and nobody has considered is the intelligence of the players. jolley is obviously a very intelligent man and a thinking coach. i wonder how difficult it is for players to have to adapt to his new thinking and his way of changing things match to match and during games. along with the criteria he's already set out for new recruits i wonder if the players would need a certain level of intelligence so they can best work with him

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If Jolley had got the job instead of Slade we would not have been in this mess. Slade took us backwards. I'm sure there are loads of decent experienced managers with a proven track record who could have taken us forward this season. Its not as if We started the season with a team full of bad players so we obviously are pay competitive salaries. Its what Slade did with them that has killed us.

Jolley has done a good job as a manager, Whether he can recognise and recruite good players will define him.

Accrington Stanley are top of the league on allegedly one of the lowest budgets in L2. Yes they need someone to manage them properly but someone has done a good job in their recruitment side to put out a team that is capable of being up there.

Eddie Howe is touted as one of the best British managers around. His inability to recruit quality players in the Premiership since he got there is what lets him down. He has made some bad mistakes which have cost a lot of money

There was an interesting interview with Stanley management team Coleman and Bell this week and they said the do a lot of homework on potential players' character and mindset rather than ability and I think this is really important and a hugely underestimated part of player recruitment.

We've seen numerous tike before that players can have all the ability I'm the world but if they haven't got the heart and fight for it then their football ability is negated. Peter Sweeney and Dom Vose are great examples of this.

MJ clearly values the use of psychology and I honestly believe he will be identifying players with specific characters and personalities that go along with ability.

Quoted from Mighty_Mariner

There was an interesting interview with Stanley management team Coleman and Bell this week and they said the do a lot of homework on potential players' character and mindset rather than ability and I think this is really important and a hugely underestimated part of player recruitment.

We've seen numerous tike before that players can have all the ability I'm the world but if they haven't got the heart and fight for it then their football ability is negated. Peter Sweeney and Dom Vose are great examples of this.

MJ clearly values the use of psychology and I honestly believe he will be identifying players with specific characters and personalities that go along with ability.

think you're spot on mighty. i also wouldn't be surprised if our set pieces were worked on alittle more diligently next season. interesting article in the times on saturday, which seems to be an update of this

https://statsbomb.com/2017/02/changing-how-the-world-thinks-about-set-pieces/

Great read Forza thanks for sharing mate 👍

Surprising how little it's practised if that's correct. I thought it was just us.

Im sure we will see Rose using this throw a lot for the remaining time he is with us. That was a really long throw and will cause a problem for defences, Hopefully MJ will get them up to speed on winning the knock downs and get some goals from it.

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Surprising how little it's practised if that's correct. I thought it was just us.

Noticed when going to Wembley a few times this year that Spurs take all ten back as well which surprised me

I think you can tell we have gradually improved under Micheal. Slowly some of the feel good factor seems to be coming back and some of the team spirit with it. Michaels reaction on Saturday shows he cares as did some of the players reactions.

I believe we will survive and we will see a better season under his tenure next year.