James Olley
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I've got to put you up on that.
He's not the interim head coach.
He's the head coach.
He's the boss, Michael Carrick.
It's his job to lose.
I think so, and I think also the fact that Patrick Dogger was injured prior to that and he made an attacking substitution.
He replaced Dogger with Cunha rather than put a defender on to see it out.
So I think that again was a change from Amrim who, as we know, was very kind of cautious, over-cautious.
So that was the impressive thing that Carrick has brought that sense of freedom back and ambition and I think...
Ameren didn't trust his players, did he?
I mean, I think that's fairly obvious.
He didn't trust them.
I think at times he almost didn't like them.
There were some players that he didn't like in terms of he was exasperated by what he felt was their lack of quality.
And I think that was kind of, you can see that in the players' performances, that they knew the manager didn't trust them or have faith in them.
Whereas Carrick, he clearly trusts the players.
And the players are responding, aren't they?
They've got a sense of freedom.
I think Patrick Dargu was the obvious example.
Dargu was really poor under Ameren.