Ex Player Dan Agyei

I agree and it is an interesting point on creating disharmony if you don't take a balanced approach. I have no cast-iron evidence of this, but there was a suggestion that it was Dan's team mates who were having to pick him up (as it were) on occasions. Now, you could see this in one of two ways. It's either a man management masterstroke by KR and coaching team, because it is making the players look out for each others wellbeing and form a cohesive unit that will perform well together....OR there is a danger it will create a rift between the player group and coaching group because they don't see eye to eye on the methods employed.

It might be a bit hackneyed team-performance old hat, but I wonder where we might see our squad in terms of the "Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing" cycle :unsure:
I guess the proof will be in the pudding with Ageyi but so far he seems to bounce back positively in terms of his football. We have seen the approach taken with Ageyi on a number of younger players. I can think of Dickie, Baptiste, Sykes, Stevens, Long who despite showing promise have had too, to a greater or lesser extent have periods out of the team. It hasn't (admittedly from the outside) appeared to negatively impact their development or hunger when they get back in the team.
 
The "let the players sort it out" approach was very much a Michael Appleton philosophy - it could be where Mous first got an inkling that management might be his forte.

I think Robinson has a much more specialist-team orientated approach where people or departments are allocated areas of responsibility all reporting back to him.
Mous was signed by Clotet deadline day 2017 after Appleton had left in the summer.
But Appleton did believe in players having a say in the dressing room.
 
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This might be pure conjecture on my part, but I feel like Agyei has benefitted from having Barker at the club. Since he came back into the side, I've noticed him start to front players up before blowing past them in a way I'd never seen him do before, which is exactly what Barker does every time he gets one on one with his man. It's made him look so much more dangerous.
 
This might be pure conjecture on my part, but I feel like Agyei has benefitted from having Barker at the club. Since he came back into the side, I've noticed him start to front players up before blowing past them in a way I'd never seen him do before, which is exactly what Barker does every time he gets one on one with his man. It's made him look so much more dangerous.
Yes maybe. He’s certainly been benefiting from some pretty serious coaching, which is great.
 
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