Good move by Murray - he is so utterly disliked by the majority of the British public, Stuart has a hell of a job to do.

Why is it a good move? Another person to the team, lets fix Andy! Lets face it, the kid is just not as good as we all thought. The bubble has burst and Andy is on his way down, FedX was right. Andy has not improved in the last year, or has he

On technical terms Murray has improved but as a whole it's too early to say. He has yet to achieve something this year that suggests he has improved.

Although it's a good news, it's sad to see that Andy is willing to show a fake personality to get people on his side. One of the best things about him was he was always himself, no more of that anymore

To some extent whether he is liked or not is irrelevant.  McEnroe was the most hated man of the tabloids for years and look how well liked he is now!


What is far more important to me is that this seems to be suggesting Andy does not like not being liked.  I still think his decision over the DC made in the way it was was a big mistake and I don't think he can get over that except to give it time.  I noticed he had done something with kids soon after and suspected he was trying to get some brownie points as a good person.

Andy cannot change his temperament - that is something we are born with and have life long.  With good coaching he can learn to use it more constructively.

I think he'd be better just taking a step back, noticing if he has made mistakes and genuinely sorting them out and then the best he can really do is just be himself.

I don't think he is in line for the most angelic personality of the year but there is a lot of long term benefit in being genuine.

I think this may have something to do with the loss of confidence thing we were talking about...and I think Andy, given his age and inexperience still needs a strong older person around to cushion him and even to advise him against silly mistakes... but I just hate the artificiality of pretend personalities created by PR people!

I believe Murray can still be genuine and sincere, and, with the help of good PR, perhaps he can avoid some of the more obvious pitfalls.

Maybe the question is ......... is his basic persona one which is readily disliked?  Based on some media articles and responses to same, it would appear so.

So, perhaps PR can help remedy the situation - some would say this is reprehensible, but it is a generally accepted MO and AM needs someone to shine light on his personal qualities and tennis abilities rather than his failings.

The only thing Andy Murray needs to face is that he is not good enough as the Hype has put it. His tennis needs a lot of improvment, just see how many times his unconditionnal fans are begging him to work on the serve, which he is doing... but at a slow pace compared to expectations; then his maturity suffers a lot from his temperment. PR can do little on this, self mastery is built up from younger age, sport is helping him to catch up; since Brad left this has been a little more difficult. He should just improve his sport as he tries not to behave like a spoilt kid. This should be enough!

You know what, I thought just the same when I first joined the board...However, unless you are going to delete all the non positive posts like happens on his official site, that is how things will be....
and, I don't think it has much to do with Murray-bashing, I think it has a lot more simply to being a forum.  If you were watching a match at home you would communicate your feelings with those around you.  Very few people always have only positive feelings, so the whole lot seem to get said here.  I have seen far more offensive postings on his own site before they have been deleted than we usually get here, apart from Fuz!

You are obviously feeling protective of Andy just now.  I'm sure he will survive...

Yes, most of it from you...

 Stuart Higgins?