arthur
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An extract from an article in the Guardian
"To lose six of your seven final games in a season (and draw the other) is unusual and very painful," Tisdale says. "A slump like that can breed a lot of negativity and I felt that the confidence around the place had been drained out of it. That needed to be changed. The relationship between the supporters and the players had broken down and I felt that we needed a new team for the fans to encourage and try to back. There has been a big turnover of players. There is only one of the current starting XI that played at the back end of last season and that's Artur.
Since last summer, 17 players have left St James Park, 12 have gone out on loan and seven new faces arrived. At the same time a number of promising academy graduates have been given a chance to impress in the first team. Tisdale could have chosen to go down another route, by turning to the more experienced players who remain under contract.
"After relegation followed by the pathetic end to last season the supporters needed a new focus. And also I felt the team needed new energy, new freshness, new enthusiasm, some people coming in who were genuinely excited to play for Exeter and wanted to personally start climbing up the ladder, achieving things in football and being successful. I felt that was the right thing."
Full article here
"To lose six of your seven final games in a season (and draw the other) is unusual and very painful," Tisdale says. "A slump like that can breed a lot of negativity and I felt that the confidence around the place had been drained out of it. That needed to be changed. The relationship between the supporters and the players had broken down and I felt that we needed a new team for the fans to encourage and try to back. There has been a big turnover of players. There is only one of the current starting XI that played at the back end of last season and that's Artur.
Since last summer, 17 players have left St James Park, 12 have gone out on loan and seven new faces arrived. At the same time a number of promising academy graduates have been given a chance to impress in the first team. Tisdale could have chosen to go down another route, by turning to the more experienced players who remain under contract.
"After relegation followed by the pathetic end to last season the supporters needed a new focus. And also I felt the team needed new energy, new freshness, new enthusiasm, some people coming in who were genuinely excited to play for Exeter and wanted to personally start climbing up the ladder, achieving things in football and being successful. I felt that was the right thing."
Full article here
