{"id":437848,"date":"2026-02-21T11:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437848\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T11:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:46:08","slug":"losing-the-dressing-room-what-can-it-mean-how-does-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437848\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Losing the dressing room&#8217; &#8211; what can it mean? How does it happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Dyche&#8217;s case, a dressing room can be lost very quickly, after succeeding Ange Postecoglou to become Forest&#8217;s third permanent manager this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dyche&#8217;s reign went downhill after a good start, with BBC sources suggesting he struggled to bond with some players who questioned his methods and tactics, as he focused on the squad&#8217;s physicality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Players&#8217; opinions were also canvassed after defeat at Leeds United and they did not give Dyche their full backing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So how quickly can a dressing room turn against a manager \u2013 and could it even happen before he steps through the door?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sutton said: &#8220;Players talk when a new manager comes in. Some players may have experienced that manager before, or there may have been fall-out. I think instant impact is important.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Certain managers will go into a club and want to do things their own particular way. They may leave out a club legend who&#8217;s already there, or a strong character, then that person won&#8217;t be happy and might be influential in the dressing room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murphy believes every manager gets a chance, but warned: &#8220;It can change within three or four games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It can happen after a few bad results and performances, when you feel like you&#8217;re really struggling, getting beaten heavily, not competing in games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So maybe a month. One of the difficulties is when you have a dressing room where there is a little bit of pushback because some players are OK with the manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This can become toxic as well because what you don&#8217;t want is a group of players who feel differently, because then you don&#8217;t have that cohesion and togetherness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I would suggest when it starts going wrong it becomes a majority quite quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Dyche&#8217;s case, a dressing room can be lost very quickly, after succeeding Ange Postecoglou to become Forest&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-437848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}