First game of the season for me yesterday, due to work then holiday, basically why I’ve been absent from the forum for a while.
Unfortunately this league and the one above are about hard work. We don’t work hard enough either collectively or individually, with and without the ball.
It’s 90 minutes with a break in the middle, and as the great Jimmy Murphy told Bobby Charlton “you’ve got to work your balls off”, emphasised later by Sir Alex Ferguson when he said “ hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent doesn’t work hard enough”. No I’m not a closet Man United fan but I like to read how the greats, particularly in football, achieve their greatness.
We, as HUFC players, have got to ask ourselves ‘ do we work hard enough?
As I said earlier first game of the season for me yesterday and i cannot express the similarities between this team and last seasons team, not squad, team. The way we set up, the fear in the players, the fragile nature of the eleven, the failing to close down, restrict the opposition, move forward together, defend from the front. There is so much wrong and so many similarities to previous seasons in this league, we will be lucky to surpass those previous seasons “achievements”.
I’ve waffled on enough for this thread but I’ll look at other threads and contribute where I can but returning to Jimmy Murphy, and similarities to pools players, he said “bad players hide in matches often standing next to the man who is marking them having no influence on the game” (these players are content to be called footballers) “serious professionals find themselves space and work their balls off”. How many do the former and how many the latter?