The Cabbage
Striker
Whilst all of that is true it's churlish to absolve the players of their responsibility when it comes to performance. They aren't cattle to be herded. This sort of thing from oshea would be far better received if the playing squad was simply poorly skilled. Fact is that in three of the last four seasons the squad has shown itself capable of sustained excellent form - far in excess of mere bottom feeders. That then points to attitude.All of that stuff in the bottom of your quote is about leadership..not anyone can take a bunch of disparate players and get them with their egos and in many cases limited intelligence and motivate them to compete in the prem....we just don't appoint the right leaders
Now poor leadership comes in here of course but a significant portion of the problem must reside in the players themselves. And besides, if both the leaders and the players are below required standard then surely a desire for stability goes out the window. The churn is a symptom rather than the cause. There's plenty of blame to go around here and oshea is a good enough communicator to have danced around it better than he did. Probably something to do with the interview being given while on duty with MONs Ireland.