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Indeed, but that's because there's normally backroom staff who can deal with things. Who is going to pick the team? You didn't say it would be difficult. It's an away game against a good team, it should be difficult. What you said was that they'll be "wanting to play for Rowett AND Zola", which...

If that were the case, you wouldn't need a manager half the time. Rowett won't have spoken to them about how he'd like them to play against us, he hasn't even chosen the starting 11 - and the backroom staff can't do that either, so Zola has to do it - and does Zola come in and just say 'play...

My thinking is that a few players might want to impress him, but the players that were playing well and liked Rowett will feel shit and will find it difficult to give it their all. The players will talk and say to each other 'WTF?'. I agree that any failings of Zola won't affect the team yet...