Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has said that players deal better with criticism in League One.
Speaking to the Coventry Telegraph's Alan Poole, Mowbray said: "We’re trying to create a culture that we want to be a good football team but we have to build from a solid base which is why Reda Johnson and Sam Ricketts are here
“I want to play attacking expansive football if we can and yet you can’t do that all the time and I’ve never told players to mess around in their own box – we make life harder for ourselves if we have to keep coming from behind.
“I question everything that happens on the pitch and I have to say that I’ve been quite brutal at times but I’ve found that at this level of football the players deal with criticism better because they don’t carry big egos around with them.
“Higher up sometimes you have to tiptoe around players because you want them to stay positive, but these boys accept that I’m telling them these things for their own good as well as the team.
“And they take it on board. When I finish training, go back up to my office and look out the window practically everybody is out there on the grass still practising, whether that’s passing, shooting, heading – they are all working at their game, trying to get better, and that’s always a good sign."