That’s a mental outburst against the clubs fan/fans 
. You can’t say that when ya team in the bottom 2/3 and the fans have travelled 200 mile each way ffs. Holloway would keep them up but he can’t survive that surely?
I think he is right. If players give their all it is unhelpful if fans berate them. They then become scared to do stuff.
Ive been guilty in the past venting my spleen but that has been because the players didnt give a stuff.
Wimbledon away last year we got stuffed. No moans from me towards the players as they were just shite. A midfielder trying to play on his own, a defender who cant defend and a striker who at the time would struggle in non league. They tried their best though so no complaints from me.
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Swindon had 0.03xg with zero shots on target despite having 4 strikers on the pitch at one point.
I think Holloway is either deflecting or is complete denial and trying to shift the blame.
If I was a Swindon fan I’d want him gone yesterday for that.
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I agree. IH is right to have his opinion and has every right to express it.
Fans across most clubs are quick to dish out criticism and act like complete victims when they get it back…
Equally I don’t have a problem with fans dishing out criticism per se… Just don’t get offended and all shocked when it’s back at you…
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Fact is it doesn’t help players to play in a critical negative environment, no matter how much ‘fans’ think they have a right to do this.
By criticising the fans Holloway will draw their ire onto him rather than the players.
The players will think they owe Holloway and try their best for him.
Holloways no fool even though to hear him speak you’d think he was.
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Possible , but I’d say you’d be naive to appoint him and then be shocked at this anyway. I don’t think he’ll lose his job over it. It’s a taboo broken, but I reckon he’s said what a lot of managers think privately.
Neil Harris didn’t last long after his rant, it rarely ends well when management, players or owners start bickering with the fans.
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I think Sadler’s approach is that there is a group, which includes the players, the coaching staff and everyone else at the Club, including the fans. All for one and one for all. With the majority of coaches, including Flynn and Holloway, there is a separation between the manager and the players. It can work, obviously, but I prefer our model.
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Didn’t Harry Smith score a hat trick the last game?
He’s one I wouldn’t mind looking at in January if Lowe goes back, 8 goals in 14 league games pretty good for a terrible team.
Paul Glatzel also had a decent scoring end to last season, only scored once this time so again might be available and only 23.
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Yeah I like Glatzel
Think he might know Harry Williams from youth days too
Make a great spot the ball competition
Not much point in the linesman entering.
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I think they’ve got great judgement and an even better sense of humour
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This seems to make it clearer. It’s both better and worse for Holloway. The comment above came after he’d had an altercation with a fan and had to be restrained. But the " you" above is referring to that single fan, not the away fans as a whole. If he is in trouble it will be more for his earlier action.
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This should be a motivating factor for them though. Imagine in any line of work being told you are not good enough or don’t try enough or aren’t respected.
Fans sitting there and happily clapping no matter how bad their team is will never happen.
What strange thinking. I found throughout my many years as a manager I never felt I motivated people by telling folk they were not good enough, or not trying or not respected! Just the opposite I always tried to find the positives in folk to build them up and give them confidence.
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Sorry @WalsallOne im coming from the angle as a worker / player - you don’t want that label coming your way do you ?
A bit of pride in what you do etc
Well if you think people whether they are workers or players are motivated by being told they are rubbish you are wrong.
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Probably from the modern generation who can’t take the real talk feed back.
Nobody wants to be told they’re shit. So you graft to avoid that label.
This modern day soft management woke-ism lets people just put in half a shift thinking they can’t be told they’re no good.
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So Holloway thinks that one fan having a rant about his team in a crowd of what? Over 15000, is so detrimental to his team’s chances that he has to cry over it in a press interview? Sounds like he is just deflecting.
He is entitled to air his opinion, but I doubt it will work out well for him.
Hopefully he will take them down, horrible club.
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