It's now a matter of urgency that Murray accepts he made a dreadful mistake in firing Brad and then having a team of coaches. He therefore needs to find himself a proper coach like any other ordinary player.

I think he'd rather give up tennis than subject himself to someone he knows would be a good coach, but whom he doesn't respect.



Sadly, I dont think he'd respect anyone for long.

On what do these fans base their concerns of "yes men" in team Murray, because his new coaches have not been a silver bullet to instantly cure all of Andy's faults does not make them sycophants.

If you take Alex Corretja for example, I would say that from the start of the clay court season Andy's game has improved on this surface with Andy being more aggressive in his later matches.

Does Corretja not deserve some credit for this improvement with the professional advice that he would have given or is it just a coincidence and his only contribution was to peel grapes and massage the ego of the Scot.

If Andy is unwilling to change his game or take on board advice, it does not necessarily mean that the correct advice was not given in the first place.   

As for Timmy,

He has a job to do in giving his opinion and read games as he sees them for the viewer, you would not expect Federer to take on board Tim's TV comments so why should it be different with Andy.

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The criticism that Murray has had over his entourage is about the more permanent members. Alex is the exception and is there only short term so will feel little need to watch his words with Murray as job security isn't an issue.

Criticism over his team has been mentioned so often on this forum but scattered about on loads of different threads so searching would be a nightmare but I'll give my opinion.

I feel under Petchey and Brad you were able to see changes in his game that ended up showing improvement. But under this new team he has changed very little and actually gone down hill. If they really said what they thought then no doubt they would be trying to get Murray to experiment with being more aggressive but we haven't seen this, maybe because they're afraid to tell him to try it out as it might turn out bad and therefore their job security would be at risk. With Brad you never saw that, he was brutally honest which worked wonders.

Alex, however, has a short time with Murray and therefore can be completely open without worrying about negative consequences. Under Alex we have seen him become much more aggressive and he seems to have changed his serve as well.

Even if my argument is poor, the fact remains that on this website and on many other websites I have looked at, there seems to be a growing number of people that believe the people around him are a bunch of mates rather than strong professional advisor's who will say what they feel.

I agree it's speculation, it's also widespread and growing.

I don't care if he keeps the yes-men physios and fitness trainers, but he needs to get someone as a coach who's an equally keen tennis mind, and a good scout (that was Brad's forte in many ways), and who can say no from time to time, and challenge him to prove him wrong. If he wants to keep the yes-men to go to dinner with so he doesn't get fed up with the coach fair enough...

What do you mean? Murray does of course.