{"id":9260,"date":"2026-02-22T20:56:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9260"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:56:03","slug":"losing-the-dressing-room-what-can-it-mean-how-does-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9260","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Losing the dressing room&#8217; &#8211; what can it mean? How does it happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Dyche&#8217;s case, a dressing room can be lost very quickly, after succeeding Ange Postecoglou to become Forest&#8217;s third permanent manager this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dyche&#8217;s reign went downhill after a good start, with BBC sources suggesting he struggled to bond with some players who questioned his methods and tactics, as he focused on the squad&#8217;s physicality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Players&#8217; opinions were also canvassed after defeat at Leeds United and they did not give Dyche their full backing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So how quickly can a dressing room turn against a manager \u2013 and could it even happen before he steps through the door?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sutton said: &#8220;Players talk when a new manager comes in. Some players may have experienced that manager before, or there may have been fall-out. I think instant impact is important.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Certain managers will go into a club and want to do things their own particular way. They may leave out a club legend who&#8217;s already there, or a strong character, then that person won&#8217;t be happy and might be influential in the dressing room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murphy believes every manager gets a chance, but warned: &#8220;It can change within three or four games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It can happen after a few bad results and performances, when you feel like you&#8217;re really struggling, getting beaten heavily, not competing in games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So maybe a month. One of the difficulties is when you have a dressing room where there is a little bit of pushback because some players are OK with the manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This can become toxic as well because what you don&#8217;t want is a group of players who feel differently, because then you don&#8217;t have that cohesion and togetherness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I would suggest when it starts going wrong it becomes a majority quite quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Dyche&#8217;s case, a dressing room can be lost very quickly, after succeeding Ange Postecoglou to become Forest&#8217;s third permanent manager this season. Dyche&#8217;s reign went downhill after a good start, with BBC sources suggesting he struggled to bond with some players who questioned his methods and tactics, as he focused on the squad&#8217;s physicality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}