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Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3453264, member: 9853"] Sounds like a bit of a bullshit excuse to me, shelving the blame onto the playing group rather than the coaching staff. It's directly his job to manage exactly that misconception and prepare the team each week. If he's throwing a blanket over the team implying as a team their heads got too big, that doesn't really bear a lot of scrutiny. So let's have a stab at which players he might be blaming or scapegoating. The most obvious candidate for being big for his boots is Tyson, but Kevvie wasn't picking him, so we can rule him out. Albert and Herbie were injured. Reynolds, Capewell and Haas might not have put in their finest performances but none could be accused of being overconfident. They were also all playing through injury. Carrigan played one loss and then sat out suspended. Oates was in the best form of his career. Niu returned for two losses and was despatched for the season. Paix played in one loss and that was it, with Turpin and Walters intact for the shambles that ensued. Were rookies Mariner, Mam, Hoeter, Hosking and Cobbo guilty of overconfidence? Maybe, but you'd have to be desperate to be dumping on them. By a matter of elimination, the names that bubble to the top here are: Staggs, Riki, Flegler, Palasia, Jensen, Turpin, Walters and Hetherington. Narrowing it down further, it's obvious he's talking about Billy. [/QUOTE]

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