Passion, I'm not talking fist-pumping, running down the line hugging ball boys. I'm talking about the ability to instill that into the team consistently, whenever they go out onto the field. That every blade of grass they cover, is instrumental.
100%. Let's be honest. It's grand the players worked and put a shift in. Everytime they pull on that jersey, home or away. It shouldn't matter. It should be there. And it's the minimum we should expect. But it's not happening.
To get that from a group of players you have to be unswerving, fierce, so utterly entrenched, you'll not only fight tooth and nail, you have to have the balls to say FU to anybody that dares to question your MO.
Over the park they've had that. United too. Ego's need to be checked. Hire someone who doesn't just demand you put a shift in. Hire someone who relentlessly has to win, shakes up the coop and put noses out of joint along the way.