Curle bleated on and on in the summer about getting the right mentality and attitude in the squad with his recruitment.
Multiple meetings and getting into the psyche of individuals .
What a load of old rubbish he speaks .
This squad look a bunch of snowflakes with no backbone to me .
Sheehan and Holmes are good additions in that respect but some of the others out there a 6ft something pansies no doubt with their luis Vuitton wash bags and pure white Nikes on . Pathetic .
This club needs a Cresswell or Dyche type player that shakes a few pretenders up and gets them polishing his boots .
For me giving the captaincy to Hoskins just about sums up last nights apparent inept performance.
I didnt watch preferring to save my money and listen to Tim, but ive seen enough of Sam over the years to know he is absolutely not captaincy material. He might be the longest serving and he might wave his arms around a bit and point in vague directions when we havent got the ball but has anyone ever seen him look someone in the eye and tell them what he thinks. The most vocal I've seen him is when he gives the vaguest of rally calls but almost like he's addressing himself. He has always got his head down, he seems to me like someone who's frightened that at any minute he might get found out, needing someone else to get him up or put an arm around him because he has got ability he just doesnt know (and never will) how best to use it. I imagine Holmes and Adam's must have had half an idea what might prevail when he was given the armband.
The captaincy isnt the reason we lost badly last night, but its symptomatic of where we are going from heart on his sleeve Goode (not my favourite player but I imagine, a dammed good captain) to quiet as a mouse Bolger and now last night marmite Hoskins.