What I find unpalatable about Roy's so-called man-management is that he doesn't seem to do what he says or appears to set out to do. I'm not going to go into buying players just to play them out of position - I've said that too many times already.
Here's another example. He specifically said we would give Babel a chance as a striker. He specifically said he would give Pacheco a chance to show why everyone rated him. Have these happened? They both had one game - Northampton. Babel now plays for the reserves, and perhaps he deserves that because he really doesn't give 100% (and hardly impressed there, did he?). But one game isn't enough of a chance *in that position*. If Roy was only going to give him one game he should have made him sit in the Babelcopter until someone bought him instead.
But more importantly, what's happened to Pacheco since? He hasn't seen the bench of any side since Northampton. Has he been consigned to the scrapheap too? I didn't see that game, but I understood from the comments on this forum and others that he had a decent game. But he can't make the bench? Even though we desperately need someone who actually resembles a wing? Even though we are forced to carry Poulsen every single game and he's yet to do anything positive? Come on! Double standards like that will cost you the team, Roy! Oh wait, you've lost them already. Go figure...
I agree that Roy can turn it around. But the thing he has to turn around first is himself.
