I posted this on Sack Ricki, but maybe deserves it's own thread and a bit more positive light
It seems clear from this mornings radio interview he supports the AW world cup players and wants to work it through with them. Billy Harris' Herald article criticising lack of creativity he just gave no time to. Played both the man and the suggestion.
well that's Bertos, Brown, Elliott, Siggy, he's backing, so don't expect any of them to be stood down.
Here's a paraphrase of the rest of the interview
He said he was looking at ways to change Ifill's role and position, to allow him to be more effective again, but nothing more specific about that. Their stats show Ifill is getting more ball than last year (implying distribution to him is fine ... ).
Ward? Was injured, a bit of an injury, so has missed a couple of games.
North? Not played Saturday due to coming back from socceroos, also has not had a lot of football overseas, so finding his legs again. Is North as good as McKain? Perhaps not, but we have recruited to strengthen the squad. We are rebuilding the unit.
Daniel? Best impact we've had is coming on as a sub. That may change but at the moment that is how he sees it.
What's at the top of his priorities now? To make top 6. Look Sydney won it last year and look at where they are, Melbourne have fallen as well and we will overtake them with a game in hand (lol). It's the League. We are not positioned too badly.
Form on the road? We've found it tough. We've had some good wins away, but no solution at the moment. We are trying things, but nothing has done it for us yet.
And that was about it.
Nothing asked about playing a midget alone up front by himself or anything on formations and player roles (other than Ifill). Too much to ask of Telfer to go there possibly.
Seems to me he's completely committed to the current starting players and formations and just expects some tinkering, confidence and better player performance will do it. Hmmmm.
Well he's said he takes full responsibility.
The 9:15-9:30 slot covers most of it with a bit of spillover to 9:30 slot and then some talkback going into the 9:45 slot
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good on him, I've been waiting kind of for Ricki to make some sort of proper statement about how the team has been playing.
It may take a while, but we'll get back on track, I know we will.
It may take a while, but we'll get back on track, I know we will.
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Yes, a regular radio spot like that with good questions being asked would be good. Would also stop a lot of the speculation on here. Even though I might have suspected already some of the things RH said, I feel better now that he has said them himself - know what I mean?
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