If they haven’t learned already they are starting to now.
Fleetwood have been under the tutelage of Scott Brown for almost a full season and as they struggle to secure their place in the third tier of English football, Broony let rip at his players after some comical defending and football led to another defeat and Fleetwood hovering just over the relegation zone.
As reported by The National, Broony raged, “That was schoolboy, that was Sunday League football. People think that can do what they want here and that’s not happening. That won’t happen again.
“I just can’t get my head around it. For us going forward if we think that’s acceptable, we’ve got a long way to go.
It’s about taking responsibility and that’s on the field, that’s being organised, becoming a team, being responsible, being in shape, being disciplined and understanding the game.
“It’s down to players taking responsibility in the park; you can talk about tactics as much as you want but that becomes defend your box, leadership and understanding the time of the game.
“We’ve scored to get it back to 2-2 and you’ve just scored a goal, it’s a time that teams are going to come for you. They’ve got 11 men, we’ve got 10 and we’ve got three attacking players that just go and do what they want.
“That’s when we have to have game management. Game management comes throughout the whole team, understanding the situation that you’re in and understanding the timing of it. See it out, you’d take the one point here.”
Got to love the legend. If ever there was a player you could see taking over at Celtic one day, it would be him.
And already you can see that he will not tolerate a drop in standards. Even at Fleetwoods level.