Post by hhsussex on May 20, 2014 12:20:14 GMT
Amidst the predictable bullishness and support for his new management structire, an interesting admission from Giles Clarke in this BBC report
"I think there was a widespread feeling that the team had lost connection with the supporters," he said. "How and why that had happened were a series of complex reasons which we could spend a long time debating.
"More relevant is the fact it had and I was sufficiently concerned to discuss the matter with the coach at the start of the Oval Test."
I wonder what he said: Carry on this way and you'll make a mess of retaining the Ashes in Australia and then I'll lose points in my own power-struggle with BCCI?
Or could it have been : All this triumphalism and lack of respect for a rapidly-improving opposition is pretty hubristic. There seems to be a certain amount of weary fatalism about team selections, a kind of leave it to us, we know better, that limps along through draws against mediocre opposition, the decline in form by key players that is glossed over with talk about "Ah, but remember what he did in 2009/2010-11"?
"I think there was a widespread feeling that the team had lost connection with the supporters," he said. "How and why that had happened were a series of complex reasons which we could spend a long time debating.
"More relevant is the fact it had and I was sufficiently concerned to discuss the matter with the coach at the start of the Oval Test."
I wonder what he said: Carry on this way and you'll make a mess of retaining the Ashes in Australia and then I'll lose points in my own power-struggle with BCCI?
Or could it have been : All this triumphalism and lack of respect for a rapidly-improving opposition is pretty hubristic. There seems to be a certain amount of weary fatalism about team selections, a kind of leave it to us, we know better, that limps along through draws against mediocre opposition, the decline in form by key players that is glossed over with talk about "Ah, but remember what he did in 2009/2010-11"?