Why would the players be less likely to respect Alex Neil than Neil Adams?

One's a manager, the other's a coach. One has a record in management - of success - the other had no record in senior management at all.

Coaches often find it very, very difficult to stop being matey with the players and create some kind of distance. They're very often the good cops to the manager's bad (where necessary) cop. But what Neil has to do is root out the bad apples - of whom there are certainly a few - and take most of the squad with him, through his ideas, his energy and his vision. Why would the Leicester players have respected Martin "never managed at this level before - your success was with a non-league side" O'Neil? But they did, because of what he did with them.

No-one's saying it's easy. But we've got a darn sight more chance under someone with experience of being a manager than someone with none.

Posted By: thebigfeller, Jan 24, 19:37:22