Torquay United V Altrincham 14th February 2009

If that has happened, then i think we all know where this is going. Or rather where Green is going, because he WILL be going.

Good result today and it certainly sounded on the radio like the one-sided annihilation that some of the great match reports above describe. I guess I had better answer your comment DaveR. As mentioned in a previous post, I find him frustrating as he clearly has ability and pace, but he wasn't using it in a central position and often would either not pull the trigger or fail to hit a proverbial cow's backside with a banjo.

Like the earlier poster, a spell out on loan to a club who are playing some of the top 8 sides over the next month or so wouldn't go a miss. If he gains a scoring touch wherever that might be then he will indeed play that important part in our play-off push that you mention, Dave. Hopefully coming back to us a reformed character.

Obviously the described petulance above does him no favours, nor would it at any other Club with any other Manager.

My understand now is that the Green situation will be sorted and he will not be going out on any loan, I really hope so as its clear many fans do rate him and believe he can do a good job for the team.

I see this game in on the 25th of this month, the day after we play FGR, so he sure does have a chance of starting.

The reports of Matt Green and his little scene are a by product I'm afraid of creating the very strong bond and team spirit that Bucks has based his management of OUR club on and indeed worked so hard to achieve during his time as Assistant Manager of Exeter City.

Some will take to it, some will not; but you can't embrace a "one for all and all for one" mentality but exclude those who can't or won't buy in to that ethos. It means what it says on the tin!

It's history now that Rayner and Phillips wouldn't buy into such a spirit and so they have departed, numerous loanees have come and gone - early in some cases as they neither could embrace it.

It's totally unfair to criticize the manager for adopting this policy because this is how he manages...................it is his style, and he has to be allowed to work to it without recourse to the nodding heads and gossip mongers tittle tattling and others more vociferously claiming he doesn't possess man management skills.

"All for one and one for all" is what got "Tommy" through the horrors of the trenches, and it's what gets teams back into games that can seemingly appear to be lost or keep going to the final whistle.........................look how many goals we scored almost at the death of games last season.

There are other managers who embrace a totally different attitude and allow themselves to pander to the foibles, "un professionalisms" and quirks of players - that might work for them, we have had those types of manager at Plainmoor before and who knows, we might again in the future. But what we have to remember is that OUR young manager is a product of modern day thinking and modern day education in the FA run coaching schools, not doing the job on the back of years in the game and endless hours spent in the betting shop, treatment room and God knows who elses bedrooms as they idled away their free time in a sleepy resort miles from home.

I was introduced to Matt Green after the Blackpool game and he struck me as a rather young and rather easy going young lad for his age........................more like a fifteen or sixteen year old. that's not a criticism but an observation and just maybe he is more drawn to the modern day idiom of players being much more individualistic and own career driven than one who is strongly into team spirit. It is a tendency that I have noticed in the game over the past few years and being somewhat "old school" not one that I have enjoyed observing.

I might sound like an old curmudgeon, but I am appalled when I see grown men have their mum, dad, brother sister auntie May and Uncle Charlie trail round the country after them week in week out, I see players gawping up into the stands looking for said family when they run out and I think back to the days when although my dad would be at as many games that I played/reffed in as he could; he would more often than not make his own way to and from those games and keep his own counsel and his own company throughout "my" day.

If I wanted to go through a game with him later in the week I would, and we would often argue and row like good 'uns. If I didn't - we didn't - end of................I don't think managers then (at my level or professional level) had half the crap to put up with that those of today do.

If what is said of Matt Green is true then he has to spend the weekend thinking about how much he wants to be part of a successful team, and if he really does (and I sincerely hope he does because in my eyes he is an exceptional talent) he has to address that he needs to be carrying out the wishes and instructions of the manager to have longevity in the game as a professional because if he fails to grasp that very basic requirement he will be an "awfully long time retired" given his tender years.

Something for the young man to think on!

Didn't realise that the Matt green issue was getting aired on this thread so put my thoughts on the 'man management' one on the main board.. but it sort of agrees with Merse!