Pretty sure most, if not all, managers hate lazy players. FWIW, I don’t think BJ is lazy, just a relatively limited player that needs confidence. He’s good at one thing - scoring - and expecting him to do anything else is a bit strange. He’s not going to go flying into tackles, defend his own goal with towering headers at oppo corner kicks or bang in a 30 yard thunderbastard.
He’s good at scoring, shite at everything else, so he plays and we all accept that others need to step up to fill in his gaps, or he doesn’t and we need to accept that someone else needs to step up to make up for the goals. And finding a “winger” that will do that isn’t the easiest job in the world.
We don’t know why BJ isn’t playing from the start in the last couple of matches. Could be he’s not fit enough, could be Frank rotating, could’ve been caught shagging the lunch lady over a cafeteria table. Fuck knows. Most likely Frank hasn’t been impressed by what he’s seen and maybe that’ll be the making of the player. Hopefully if or when he comes back into the team he stops hiding from responsibility and starts on a scoring run again.
To be clear - as a supporter of the player and someone who appreciates what he can bring to the team - he doesn’t deserve to play at present. He’ll need to really shine in training and during his minutes to be a mainstay again. I hope he does, because I can’t see us getting his goals anywhere else in the squad.
