The players clearly have no respect for Carver and why should they? He hasn't done a thing that I can look at and think that he could inspire anybody to do anything. People often go on about players wages and think that should be enough to motivate them, it isn't and never will be. Not having money might motivate you to do better and get money. Once you have it you need something else to get you going and Carver isn't going to give the players that.
He's not helped by Ashley or Charnley as everybody on the planet must know our only ambition is to stay in the division. We got to 35 points and switched off because it looked like we were safe, Carver was also to blame for that as he was talking about "Free games."
The players were motivated to get to 35 but not beyond that and Carver will not change that, he's a nobody with the charisma of a sewer rat and the players know that. He's a caretaker manager so they will also know/think that they will out-last him if anything goes wrong and they can just move to another club and pick up another stupid wage.
Agreed, the players have given up and have no motivation to listen to carver at all, It doesn't help when that clueless idiot stated that he could easily fall back into his caretaker job if he failed to get the head coach role.