Grant McCann makes 'I'm not delivering it' admission after Doncaster Rovers' 5-1 defeat to Plymouth Argyle
Grant McCann conceded he is “not delivering” the answers to Doncaster Rovers’ problems after their 5-1 defeat to Plymouth Argyle.
Since their promising start to life back in League One, Doncaster have plummeted down the table in an alarmingly swift fashion.
A 5-1 home defeat to Plymouth intensified concerns and dropped Doncaster into the relegation zone.
Brandon Hanlan opened the scoring after just four minutes but the Pilgrims roared back in style.
Grant McCann’s admission
McCann said: “We need to get to the bottom of it all really and that’s my job that I get paid to do. At this moment in time I’m not delivering it. It’s as simple as that. I always hold my hand up and take responsibility.
“I put the team on the pitch. I pick the players, the subs, the formations – everything. So I need to look at myself and see what I’m doing wrong.
“Am I having too much belief in certain players, shapes, systems or whatever it may be? I need to look at it because at this moment in time it’s not good enough.
“It’s not good enough to concede 11 goals in three games. It’s simply not. I need to get back to the drawing board at the training ground and first of all trying to make us hard to beat.
“As much as we want to be good on the ball going forward and attacking, we have to be good at the other end.”
Tom Cleverley reacts
Plymouth boss Tom Cleverley added: “It’s a really pleasing performance and we’ve been building up to this. We won’t be resting after this. We have to show this more consistently.
“Six or eight weeks ago we took the stance that we have to make the team more solid. We went to two banks of four and we knew that we needed the solidity and maybe with some dogged results would bring us some confidence and more complete performances would grow from there.
“I thought we saw the first of those today and now it’s about working hard to give us more performances like that in the future.
“We knew Doncaster are a good football team and we knew we had to take chances in the build-up. That’s where our first goal came from with good aggressive pressure and then I thought we were really good in transitions today.”