If the info from a ?long-standing player? in the Grauniad is right, it explains a lot.

?One long-standing player, an important and respected figure within the club, has privately let it be known that what they perceived to be Hughton's constant criticism and emphasis on the negative meant the players were going into games more focused on not making mistakes than on creating opportunities.?

The players have looked terrified, over-coached and too rigid in formation for large periods of the last two seasons and it sounds like it was totally avoidable.

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Posted By: bird table, Apr 7, 09:28:59