Funny, I get laughed at when I point out the quality of coaching staff.
I don't know how "good" they are, but i do know they've never experienced the kind of pressures we are under now and they're also coaching players of the quality and background they've never coached before.
The thing about some people on here saying that celtic fans watching us have said "this isn't Ange-ball" is that as someone senior in my own professional that sees good and bad examples of culture and line management, what I tend to find is that when you overpromote an inexperienced person to manage a team of experienced, professional SME's what tends to happen is that they'll be professional and pretend subconsciously or consciously to take things in, in terms of how that manager wants things to be done, but they then tend to just go off and do their own thing. Then the manager starts to get frustrated with them and complains that they're being unprofessional and conflict begins.
I don't know if that's why we seeing what we are seeing or whether that applies in professional football. I suspect it does. I'm imagining a situation where Nick Montgomery (previously of Hibs in the SPL) tells Bentancur and Romero what to do and they will probably be professional and will probably take it in to an extent but if it clashes with what they've previously been told is best practice at clubs like Juventus then there's going to be a conflict in their head and naturally they'll probably regard what they've been told at Juventus by someone with 20-30 years coaching at elite level as superior.
I feel like that's why we see players like Romero make so many moves that don't make sense in the situations and team structure that we have, it's him subconsciously at least seeing a deteriorating game situation and thinking *f**k it* and taking matters into his own hands, whether that's stepping in to cover what he perceives to be an unacceptable gap that maybe the coaching staff have instructed the team to leave, which then leaves his man unmarked at the far post....or whatever. It does strike me that the players that look least comfortable in this system are the more experienced players: Son, Romero, Bissouma and Maddison in particular have been very inconsistent since Ange came in, in these tactics and they often seem caught in two-minds and consistently make poor situational choices that they don't make on international duty or when they played for their previous clubs.
Ultimately the questions everyone in this thread need to ask themselves is:
1) Do you have ambitions to see THFC compete in the top 4 and for silverware?
2) Do you think Emirates Marketing Project, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Man United, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Athletico Madrid, Valencia, Juventus, AC Milan, Inter or Napoli would have hired Ange Postecoglu and all of these coaches?
3) Even if they had (Valencia hired Gary Neville FFS) do you think 18 months in, in our current situation, they'd tolerate this and trust the process?
I can tell you that the answer to 2) and 3) is "no the f*** they wouldn't"
