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Walsall boss fumes after cup exit
Monday 30th November 2009, 11:26AM GMT.
Walsall boss Chris Hutchings has slammed his players and warned they must improve after being dumped out of the FA Cup by Brentford.
The Saddlers went down to a 1-0 second-round defeat at Griffin Park on Saturday just a week after drawing 1-1 in League One at the same venue.
Hutchings revealed his anger that his men hadn’t learned from their previous mistakes.
He said: “If people don’t learn quickly they won’t stay in the side. That’s how it always is and always will be. If people don’t perform then they won’t stay in the side and keep the shirt.
“They didn’t surprise us, we didn’t deal with their strikers in the first half. We didn’t learn from last week.”
Leon Legge’s 13th-minute header settled the tie and handed Brentford a home clash with Doncaster in the third round. Hutchings will now review his side’s mistakes.
He said: “You can always take things out of the game. We’ll look at the DVD, go through it with the players and highlight a few things we need to work on.”
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Will the DVD show us how we can make up the lost revenue and the only chance the club had of getting fans back through the turnstiles?
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you cant just blame the players mr hutchings maybe your own decisions should be questioned as well
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if people dont perform they wont stay in they side dont make me laugh hutchings. o`keefe was man of the match last tuesday so you go and drop him its a joke.with 10 minutes left we should have put 4 up front we had nothing to lose we needed a goal. the club needs a cup run it need the money it need to get the fans back. i dispair.
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If people don’t learn quickly they won’t stay in the side – Bit like you play well you keep the shirt. Unchanged next week then, apart from fewer fans watching.
Bad teams = Bad manager
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What a joke – out of every cup at the first hurdle! I think Mr Hutchings needs to look at his management skills and not just the performances of the players – hasn’t got a clue when or how to make substitutions at vital points during games!
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Maybe just maybe Hutch if you dropped one of two of them occasionally to give them a rocket up the arse they might not perform so shabbily! It’s call management!
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You have to take a serious look at the substitutions or lack of them. Parkin for Byfield??? No Nicholls, no O’Keefe, not even for a bit of gung-ho at the end. Not good enough I’m afraid.
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its all ok fuming now chris, doesn’t do us much good. do you realise the state of the apathy amongst supporters? This pathetic surrender is a lost oppurtunity. I know your hands are tied but you need to prove yourself, and tbh I am not yet convinced in regards to your tactical nouse.
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Losing from the 13th minute, lacklustre, pathetic and lifeless (CH description) and we do not make a sub until 78th minute – fantastic – if I was a player on the bench over the last few weeks I would be asking to go on loan because I have no chance of playing under this lot – The starting 11 are well and truly in the comfort zone
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I’ve broadly supported you until now Chris but you’re starting to pass the blame around anywhere but yourself and that just won’t wash.
1 – 0 down and you finally decide to make a substitution with 10 minutes left? Did the thought not occur to you earlier. Why change like for like? Surely putting 3 up front (preferably Nicholls who has that very rare attribute – pace) would’ve been more likely to be successful?
Time to start analysing your own performances pal instead of blaming all and sundry.
The fact that the Brentford mananger appeared to learn more about us than we did about them tells it’s own worrying story.
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