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[Mark]

Andy Murray says it wasn't difficult to make up his mind about sacking Miles Maclagan due to their differing views on the future of his game.

It obviously was a hard decision and one that wasn't the nicest thing to have to take.

But it wasn't that tough to make up my mind because we were quite far apart in what we thought.

It wasn't necessarily something that Miles wasn't bringing. We had a chat when we were in Miami about how we saw things. We all saw things pretty differently.

Between the three of us we obviously had different ideas and different ways of seeing things, what I felt was beneficial to me and what Miles and Alex felt was beneficial to me.

Murray continues

I need to be comfortable in the set-up that I have - have 100% confidence that everyone that's working with me believes it's the right thing to do.

The last few years have gone very, very well, but I want to try and get to number one in the world and try to win Grand Slams.

It's easy to start over-thinking things and over-analysing things. I don't think there's a problem with my game.

I just need to get better, and that's something that maybe hasn't happened the last four or five months.

Hopefully by getting a new coach and a new coaching team in place, that will help me do that, and hopefully achieve my goals.

Now I feel good again. I feel confident after the way Wimbledon went. I kind of saw what the problems were, what I needed to do to get back to playing top-three, top-four tennis again. I addressed it.

[Mark]

I'm also concerned about that - maybe Miles saw Andy needed to have a mainly aggressive game while Alex thought differently.

[Grabcopy]

Here's a little more insight from Overend:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/jonathanoverend/2010/07/what_now_for_coach-less_murray.html

[asimov]

'Between the three of us we obviously had different ideas and different ways of seeing things, what I felt was beneficial to me and what Miles and Alex felt was beneficial to me.'

This statement worries me, is Andy saying that he knows what's best.  Is it the attacking/defensive play issue raising it head again ie the coaches saying attack and Andy saying his style of play is the way forward

Yes after reading Andy's statement, I am now worried, that while, Andy's 'counter punching' will keep him near the top, unless his first serve % reaches a 70/80 % consistancy it is unlikely to win a slam.
I have wanted Miles to go for some time but only because I felt Andy needed a coach who could develop an aggressive, come forward dominate the net side to his game.  Now I get the horrible feeling that, that Andy wants to 'stay pat' and any any new coach will need to think the same.
I hate to say this but maybee its Andy and not Miles thats been the problem, any body any ideas.

[Sir Panda]

McEnroe and Murray wouldn't work, don't think the temperaments would match there.

[asimov]

I have never heard or read of agassi's opinion on Andy but McEnroe certainly takes an interest in hiis game and my reading of things is he would want a more aggressive approach. However as you say this is all speculation and after the US open we will know more.

[asimov]

He could even get Tim Henman on board to teach him to be a good loser and thus help his popularity
rating.

[Aileen]

There's alot of speculation going on so I'm going to add my two pennies worth, both McEnroe and Agassi are at the Farmers Tournament, Andy made a last minute decision to go there, maybe he's interviewing them both.  

And come to think of it McEnroe was asked at Wimbledon if he would coach Andy even part time and he never said no.  

Way back in 2006 McEnroe offered his services on a part-time basis to Andy.  The offer was turned down because Andy was hell-bent on getting Gilbert as his full-time coach.  Therefore, would JM now be prepared to reiterate his offer?

Great article from Overend - seems the whole large team dynamic was ultimately the thing that terminated the relationship.

Agree.  I always felt that somewhere along the line this top-heavy arrangement would implode.  Trouble is, it seems to have imploded more than Andy probably wanted it to.  Whatever, he's grasped the nettle and has now to take it from there.