Dusseldorf - The fans had after the embarrassment against Duisburg 2:4-final fed up of their favorites. "Out of mercenaries," "So you play the hall empty" and "Grand Sport and goose bumps," scoffed the DEG-trailer.
The MetroStars Stagger into the greatest sporting crisis in years, the self-proclaimed title candidates threatens the Super Gau - the miss of the playoffs.
Only two measly points won the team of Lance Nethery in the last six games, 28 goals against while swallowing. "We currently nothing works, we're in a deep hole," says Daniel Kreutzer.
But the captain sees a lot worse problems within the team, it crumbles the team spirit. "It is not expected that everybody identifies with DEG as I as the prime-Düsseldorf. But our situation is really serious, "worries Kreutzer.
For, in addition to the international break a few players on the butt for the club. Mercenaries as Reid, tank, or the undisciplined Vikingstad Stephens rather operate to-rule and to show little use, will and fight.
The detection of an upscale DEL-level this season, they remain totally guilty. "It is the responsibility of players to retrieve their potential in every game. Instead, they get paid by us very well, "provides" clear Trainager Lance Nethery. "Our problem is that the leadership of players who will make the difference, not there."
The Canadians themselves bear the blame, put the team together through their own efforts and now has to pull the cart out of the mud. For the usual mechanisms such as coach or player dismissals have not succeeded. Nethery now must tease out the character, otherwise threatened in Nuremberg, Hanover, Mannheim, Iserlohn and at home against Berlin, the mega-disaster Leaders!
