Gannon’s Patience Fast Running Out At Set-Piece Setbacks

Saturday’s 1-1 draw saw the manager recall quotes from Confucius such was his frustration.

Gannon was unhappy that his players aren’t learning from their set-piece mistakes.

County remain 12th in the National League North and haven’t won since early November.

“Confucius has a saying that if you give a man a fish you feed him for the day but if you teach a man how to fish you feed him for life,” the deep-thinking manager said on the club’s YouTube service.

“I think we have too many players that we are giving fish to and they just don't know how to fish.

“You get players and managers who think tiddlywinks football, I think chess. I look back to a poor foul, and I'm not sure if it was a foul, and then our structure was poor and Asante is getting free in the box and having a shot and we conceded a corner from that.

“We can't talk about potential anymore we have to talk about players fulfilling tactics.”

He added: “You have got to be taking stuff off the training ground and delivering. I don't know if it the stage or if it's players not doing what we work on in training.

“These are the things we need to iron out. I am having to say the same things to the same players over and over again. My patience is running out with a few and unless we start seeing a few delivering more than their potential then we're going to have to freshen the group up with players who have the nous and the quality.”

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