Fullkrug Speaks Out

[Cerveza Para Mi]

Well dolne to the bloke.  Unfortunately I didn't actually see his interview but imo he said some things that needed saying. There's clearly a divided camp and so I guess the question needs to be asked why the players who are, according to Fullkrug, not playing to instructions are still being picked. 

As many people have pointed out before there is no relegation danger so there is absolutely no downside to throwing a few kids and squad players into the team and leaving out the offenders..  Alvarez was missing completely from the squad yesterday, as was Wan Bissaka.  Apparently AWB picked up an in jury in  training, which explains his absence, but Alvarez is apparently leaving cryptic messages on social media saying something like "all will soon be revealed". That suggests he may be one of those soon out of the door.

But it's good that someone has had the balls to speak out..  There's clearly a lot wrong and sweeping shit under the carpet has nevcer been the right way to clear up a nasty smell.,

[fraser]

Very true, I know from my own experience it's easier to start from scratch than unlearn because the previous learning has become a second habit (Still struggling to navigate this new WHO this is a reply to Ganks post )

Hit the " marks on his post and it will reply directly. 

[Westham67]

Very true, I know from my own experience it's easier to start from scratch than unlearn because the previous learning has become a second habit (Still struggling to navigate this new WHO this is a reply to Ganks post )

[stubbo]

When Steidten signed Fullkrug he made clear he was not only signing a good player on the pitch but a personality that was needed around the Club and in the dressing room. 

Seems like he was right. The injury thing has obviously destroyed his season , but the ability is clear every time he takes the field  (every time he plays he's involved in clear goal scoring opportunities), and the personality is coming through the more he's involved.

Hope he sticks around for next season. We need characters like this around the Club to help drive standard higher. 

Todibo himself even highlighted it in interview the other day...suggested anyone questioning Fullkrug didn't know what they were talking about because he was world class, had proven himself on the highest of stages and had nothing to prove to anyone, and the players could all see it and knew it too.

[Gank]

Anyone who played for us under Moyes had this mentality drilled into them every day, they're not going to be able to switch that off. Newer players who have come in like Fullkrug won't understand why Potter says to do one thing and the more established players do something else, but as soon as a player plays on instinct it's going to be the way they trained for so long.

It takes longer to unteach something than to teach something but in such a robust system as Moyes developed over a long time, reversing the learning is necessary before reteaching a new mentality and the system to accompany it.

Top marks to Fullkrug for speaking out though, Potter is a media man who says the same old thing every time he faces a camera and none of our other players have much of a personality, including Bowen.

I couldn't stand that prat Noble but at least he knew what to say to get through to the supporters. Nolan, Upson and di Canio did as well. All very different players but those are the type of people you want as leaders so Fullkrug could have made a great captain if it hadn't already gone to Bowen, he'd probably be upset if he lost the captaincy now.

[Nutsin]

More I get to see and hear Fulkrug the more I like him.

It’s true every time we go ahead we shit ourselves. We’ve been doing it for years. 

[Fauxstralian]

Think he said some players were unwilling or unable to do what the manager asks
We do have a lot who are lazy, disinterested & couldn’t run out of sight in a week
Reckon we’d struggle in WALKING FOOTBALL at the moment 

[Iron Duke]

As has been said before, we lack leaders on the pitch. Killman and JWP were both captains of their previous clubs, but show no leadership qualities. Bowen is a great player for us, but not much of a captain. Cresswell, Soucek and Alvarez have a bit about them, but aren’t playing. It’s refreshing to have someone with passion who can articulate the problems like Fullkrug has. I’m really starting to like him as a player. It’s just a shame that his spell with us has been hindered by injuries.

When we are rebuilding next year, we need strong characters as well as players with pace.

[Gaffer58]

I personally don’t think the players,or some of them, are ignoring Potter I just think it is their own football brain subconsciously saying to keep what they’ve got because they know they are quite rubbish really and they have basically spent the last 4 years playing that way. We need new fresh faces for next season, hopefully with pace,speed and ambition.

[Pub Bigot]

If one or two players aren't doing as instructed then they need to be got rid of. If many of the players aren't then surely it's the manager who's the issue. The job of a manager is to MANAGE the players. If he can't do that...

Sounds like some were a problem when JLO was in the job too, so hard to lay it at the feet of Potter. The club never has any vision or plan. 

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

If one or two players aren't doing as instructed then they need to be got rid of. If many of the players aren't then surely it's the manager who's the issue. The job of a manager is to MANAGE the players. If he can't do that...

[Pshyco scored all 4]

It is a player issue.  The clubs so unambitious.  the players think they can take the piss out of the supporters. They shouldn't be allowed to get away with it . But while Sullivans chairman nothing will change.  The big fella cares one of the few that does.

[Fauxstralian]

He said what everyone who was at the match was thinking.
LOTS of players need to be out the door obviously 
If players aren’t doing what the manager asks they need to be out of the team
Would rather see some of the kids now that we are safe for all purposes …. Ipswich with 10 men & 2-0 down to Arsenal (0 shots & xG of 0.02, Leicester down if they don’t beat Liverpool )

[El Scorchio]

Tin hat on but maybe these were not Potter's instructions to sit back and the players, or some of them, were ignoring him. Fullkrug seems to be implying that Potter didn't want us to sit back, also Russy B from the Network was near the benches and he said Potter kept telling them to push up. Logically, why would he want to sit back yesterday when winning, did he have form at his previous clubs doing this, it just don't make any sense really. Anyway, it's just an absolute mess at this point and I don't think anyone has the answers.

On another note, that gormless mute cսnt Kilman is a fucking joke of a CB, can't he speak? Defies believe he was captain at Wolves, and now we are stuck with him. Mavros is the better defender.

That’s how I interpreted it too. A player issue rather than a manager issue 

[Pub Bigot]

You do have to wonder what the attitude is like from some players.  Sadly too old now but the attitude seems always to have been great from players like Soucek and Coufal and at the successful stage with Moyes you added Rice, Dawson, Ogbonna etc, true pros.  It's clear that the likes of Kudus, Paqueta and Todibo have had issues with the management, possibly either Lop or Potter.  Moyes was at least a manager I wouldn't have thought you took liberties with, is Potter too soft?

 

 

Probably, but whether people like Potter or not, having players who do their own thing and ignore the managers instructions are a cancer. 

Potter doesn’t appear to be the man to take us forward, but who is and who would work in the circus under the porn Barron and his saggy chops VC? 

Cancer is at the top of the club filtering down, so until mini-me is gone, significant improvement from the stands to the pitch won’t happen. 

[Keep dreaming]

Make him captain, I love Bowen but he is only captain because he is a fan favourite.

Fullkrug would be in their faces and getting them going.

At last we agree on this. Bowen isn't a captain material. Not sure if Fullkrug is either, but at least he looks scary...

[zico]

You do have to wonder what the attitude is like from some players.  Sadly too old now but the attitude seems always to have been great from players like Soucek and Coufal and at the successful stage with Moyes you added Rice, Dawson, Ogbonna etc, true pros.  It's clear that the likes of Kudus, Paqueta and Todibo have had issues with the management, possibly either Lop or Potter.  Moyes was at least a manager I wouldn't have thought you took liberties with, is Potter too soft?

[Far Cough UKunt]

Tin hat on but maybe these were not Potter's instructions to sit back and the players, or some of them, were ignoring him. Fullkrug seems to be implying that Potter didn't want us to sit back, also Russy B from the Network was near the benches and he said Potter kept telling them to push up. 

That's how I interpreted what Fullkrug said tbh.  He was basically saying that some players couldn't or wouldn't play the way the coach wanted.

He's also done an interview with the German newspaper, Der Spiegel, in which he says that the board is already preparing economies in case of relegation  in  season 2025/26.  It seems the financial situation is so bad that only sausages and cheese will be available in all the club's canteens to save money.  According to Fullkrug it shows the club are preparing for the  wúrst káse scenario.

I'll close the door on my way out.

 wúrst káse scenario. 

ach ach ach ach

[Cerveza Para Mi]

Tin hat on but maybe these were not Potter's instructions to sit back and the players, or some of them, were ignoring him. Fullkrug seems to be implying that Potter didn't want us to sit back, also Russy B from the Network was near the benches and he said Potter kept telling them to push up. 

That's how I interpreted what Fullkrug said tbh.  He was basically saying that some players couldn't or wouldn't play the way the coach wanted.

He's also done an interview with the German newspaper, Der Spiegel, in which he says that the board is already preparing economies in case of relegation  in  season 2025/26.  It seems the financial situation is so bad that only sausages and cheese will be available in all the club's canteens to save money.  According to Fullkrug it shows the club are preparing for the  wúrst káse scenario.

I'll close the door on my way out.

[dax47988]

https://www.skysports.com/football/vide ... outhampton

 

[fraser]

So if they were ignoring him were those subs supposed to change it, because it looked the opposite 

[Manuel]

Tin hat on but maybe these were not Potter's instructions to sit back and the players, or some of them, were ignoring him. Fullkrug seems to be implying that Potter didn't want us to sit back, also Russy B from the Network was near the benches and he said Potter kept telling them to push up. Logically, why would he want to sit back yesterday when winning, did he have form at his previous clubs doing this, it just don't make any sense really. Anyway, it's just an absolute mess at this point and I don't think anyone has the answers.

On another note, that gormless mute cսnt Kilman is a fucking joke of a CB, can't he speak? Defies believe he was captain at Wolves, and now we are stuck with him. Mavros is the better defender.

So what we are summising is that the players are ignoring Potter?

Maybe some of them, yes.

[Russ of the BML]

Tin hat on but maybe these were not Potter's instructions to sit back and the players, or some of them, were ignoring him. Fullkrug seems to be implying that Potter didn't want us to sit back, also Russy B from the Network was near the benches and he said Potter kept telling them to push up. Logically, why would he want to sit back yesterday when winning, did he have form at his previous clubs doing this, it just don't make any sense really. Anyway, it's just an absolute mess at this point and I don't think anyone has the answers.

On another note, that gormless mute cսnt Kilman is a fucking joke of a CB, can't he speak? Defies believe he was captain at Wolves, and now we are stuck with him. Mavros is the better defender.

So what we are summising is that the players are ignoring Potter?

[Tomshardware]

Funny how fans always blame the manager when their team sits back.  Credit to Fullkrug for at least showing he cares enough to get angry about the performance    Can imagine him as a panzer general in ww2. 

[Manuel]

Tin hat on but maybe these were not Potter's instructions to sit back and the players, or some of them, were ignoring him. Fullkrug seems to be implying that Potter didn't want us to sit back, also Russy B from the Network was near the benches and he said Potter kept telling them to push up. Logically, why would he want to sit back yesterday when winning, did he have form at his previous clubs doing this, it just don't make any sense really. Anyway, it's just an absolute mess at this point and I don't think anyone has the answers.

On another note, that gormless mute cսnt Kilman is a fucking joke of a CB, can't he speak? Defies believe he was captain at Wolves, and now we are stuck with him. Mavros is the better defender.

[Russ of the BML]

Good on him for being honest and saying it how it is. Why do we sit back and invite pressure on after we have scored? Is it a mentality thing? Or is it the way they have been told to play? Well, Fullkrug said "we don't want to play that way, but we do". So for me that comes from Potter. He even said in his interview "we don't want to be defensive after we score" so why the fuck are we? Why can Potter not get a message to the players to not sit back? Or is he doing that and being ignored? 

Either way, it's just a big fuck up. And Fullkrug will either win friends of the players for his outburst or he will make enemies of the players. It depends on which way they see it. As a dig at them or Potter. Fullkrug, as angry as he was, did make sure he always said "we" so he included himself in the shit category. 

Either way, whether he makes friends or enemies, it amounts to one thing - A problem for Potter, as it either creates a divide in the players, or it turns them against him. 

Just when you though this season couldn't get any worse.....

And add to that, Brighton haven't won a game in six fixtures.... Roll on West Ham.