He insisted there is plenty of talent at Easter Road, but stressed that means nothing if it is not coupled with simple hard graft: "I've got to put my hands up and admit that, with hindsight, I probably played the wrong team against Hamilton. I think we were maybe a bit lightweight, we didn't put a team out who would make sure that Hamilton knew they were in a battle. All over the pitch we lost our one-on-ones.
"You've got to have that edge to your character and to your game and it was missing on Sunday.
"The talent is here but hard work beats talent every time when talent doesn't work hard. Talent on its own is not enough. You need to put everything into a game to get something back out of it."
Hughes had his side in for a post-mortem yesterday and feels that he proved his point to the players, adding: "We've done things a bit differently this week. We had the players in on Monday, we didn't think that they deserved a day off.
"We split them into three seven-a-side teams and we really thought about how we were splitting them up. And it worked because one of the teams went out, worked really hard and won every match.
"The rest of the boys recognised that and we didn't have to say too much to them.
"I am looking for a positive response from them. If people want to feel sorry for themselves then they are no good to me.
"If any one of the players who played in that game on Sunday can come and knock on my door to complain if they are left out of the side this weekend, then they have got a real brass neck."
Full article here: http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sp...the.5646829.jp
Honesty from Yogi.
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15-09-2009 10:42 AM #1
How Many Managers Would Admit To This?
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15-09-2009 10:47 AM #2
already posted and I thought you were not allowed to copy and paste for copyright laws !!!!
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15-09-2009 10:54 AM #3
I think its great he realizes what we all thought was wrong on Sunday. Under Mixu it would have been a fantastic effort from the boys, who were unlucky to lose. That was the easy part, the hard part will be putting it right, i said a couple of weeks ago he has a few very difficult decisions to make, regarding his captain and his goalkeeper. He's made the decision with Maka, his next one needs to be done now too. Get Murray in beside Bamba, and either go with a 4-4-2. or maybe a 3-5-2, i believe we have the players for both. But he needs to get back to 2 up front, and those 2 have to be Riordan and Stokes.
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15-09-2009 11:52 AM #5
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I never saw the Brazil team of the 70's change their style whoever they were playing.
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15-09-2009 01:03 PM #6
By too "lightweight", I think he meant he put too many attackers on and left the midfield weakened. And he is right, he did.
And, as others have said, he has the honesty to admit his mistake.
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15-09-2009 01:11 PM #7
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I do think he'll come good, but he needs dropped just now for a game or two imo because he's been going backwards. Give Byrne (who's had about 15 minutes on the park so far against sides defending leads) or Benji (who's contributed more than either Nish or Stokes has so far) a chance to partner Riordan from the start on Saturday imo. Bring Stokes on against a tiring side who have been conceding goals and see if he can get one at that point.
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Players who are steadily getting worse in their performances should be dropped imo. I'm not talking about him being out forever, I'm saying give the other players who've not got a chance yet an opportunity for a game or two. The games start getting harder after the St Johnstone games (and they won't be a walkover) and if Stokes has ended up not getting any better; then suddenly you have a woefully lacking in confidence Nish, plus Benji and Byrne who haven't kicked a ball in anger for weeks as potential replacements for him when you do have to drop him. And you'll be having to bring them in for games such as trips to Ibrox and Tynecastle, or home games against Aberdeen or Dundee Utd.
The strikers we've got should be giving us options and you can't freeze them out solely to play Riordan and Stokes every week.
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The players not in the 1st 11 will be playing games. They are playing today. They will also get substitution appearances too. If they are good enough, they will force their way into the team, thats the way it normally works. At this moment in time, again imho Nish will never be good enough, Byrne is not good enough to start, and who knows whats wrong with Benji at the moment. So again imho we have only 2 serious starters at the moment, there is no strength in depth up front.
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15-09-2009 03:06 PM #13
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Benji has played twice. Came on and won us the game in one of those performances, and done okay against Brechin.
I would say going on that, Benji is probably due a game.
We need to give Byrne a game sooner or later to see what we have with him.
And I don't agree that bounce games are anything like first team games. It's just not the same.
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15-09-2009 03:06 PM #14
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The problem we have with Stokes is that his lack of match fitness means we have to give him games to get him up to speed.
A lightweight and ineffective midfield was swamped to the point of nullifying the forwards. That is another way of saying - as Hughes did - that we were crap and lacked any fight.
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15-09-2009 03:15 PM #15
Once again, there's some excellent comments from Yogi but the proof will be in the pudding on Saturday to see if the players have learned anything from Sunday and if the performance is any better.
It surely couldn't be any worse...
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I've only seen Stokes in the home matches and he was woeful particularly against Brechin when he should have scored at least 3.
I just wish Hughes would shut up for 5 minutes and get on with the job.
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15-09-2009 05:38 PM #20
In terms of managers admitting they got things wrong I have always found Craig Levein to be very honest and informative in his after-game comments as to how his team selection and tactics had fared.
I don't find the 'lightweight' comment from Yogi to be particularly edifying to be honest. Even on this thread there are a few interpretations as to what he really meant by that.
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I'd play 442 Riordan and Nish with the option of Benji from the bench second half.
Spoony MUST play
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Excellent post.
Nice to read something that cuts through the usual cliched solutions that are rolled out in the wake of a defeat like Sunday's one.
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15-09-2009 06:33 PM #23
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As long as Yogi never goes back to 3 forwards we'll be ok.
3 up front if it includes a winger can work as they're usually fast and know how to cross a ball.
For the majority of games 4-4-2 will see us allright.
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15-09-2009 06:37 PM #24
looking at our defence,,,,,bringing in IAN MURRAY added strength,although i think he should have started on the left
the midfield was the midfield that yogi has played all aseason so far
the strike force was deeks stokes+nish
so i cant really see yogis argument about having too many [fancy/skillful ]players in the team !!!!!!!!!
hell, if you where to drop cregg for say zouma,mcbride for say galbraith, then yip i could see where yogi was coming from
but methinks its just been a BAD DAY at the office for ALL involved
cant we get pc stamp to give BIG hints to yogi the next time he interviews him for HI TO DROP THE 4-3-3,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
and get back to a 4-4-2
hb
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It bewilders me how irrational the fans can be in their appraisals of players. FWIW I think Stokes will be good for Hibs but had Colin Nish put in the identical performaces in these two games guaranteed ppl wud have been giving him about half the amount. Frustrating.
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