All about numbers
Tony (Pulis) is mathematic. What the club wants, he gives.
Jose Mourinho, Chelsea, May 2015
― mea nulta (onimo), Saturday, 16 May 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
So much wisdom from one gaffer. I bet Ian Holloway never talks about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in the dressing room.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXCgwKAH1Uw
― ailsa, Saturday, 16 May 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
lol
― This comment was removed by a moderator because it didn't abide by (nakhchivan), Saturday, 16 May 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
Washington, though, endured a difficult start to the campaign, failing to score in any of his first nine league appearances, with his only goal before October coming in Posh's League Cup win against Crawley Town.
And the 23-year-old credits the advice he received from Graham Westley, who took over at London Road towards the end of his barren spell, for turning his season around.
“He used the analogy that your mum is locked up with a gun to her head in a room and the only way you can get her out is to win,” he said. “How would that affect your performance? It struck a massive chord with me and a few other players. He said it was not the nicest thing in the world to think of but use it if that gives you that edge and aggression. I was a different animal. He brought me out of my shell.”
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
quality bump
― Laertiades (imago), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
this is a good thread
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 16:50 (eight years ago) link
You need a mind tool, with no trepidation, to be able to express yourself.
had me ending myself
bene gesserit ekotto
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 17:00 (eight years ago) link
Peterborough boss Graham Westley said his players need to take inspiration from the film The Revenant following their 1-0 home defeat by Burton.
"You can see in that film what a human being can do if his motivation and desire is sufficient," he said.
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
human triumphs against all odds in the middle of a godless frozen wilderness hundreds of miles from civilization vs The Revenant
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
It’s a balance between the two. When we have opened out and picked several forward players we’ve ended up conceding at the back, so we do want to be solid at the back.Finding that balance is a big one, between attack and defence. And attacking and defensive players.
Finding that balance is a big one, between attack and defence. And attacking and defensive players.
Kenny Jackett, Wolverhampton Wanderers, March 2016.
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:10 (eight years ago) link
our season in 4 sentences.
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
What do people like in other people? They like mirror images. They like to say, 'He's not a bad lad, he takes a drink. He's not a bad lad, he's a Jack The Lad'.
Kenny Shiels, Kilmarnock, March 2012
this melange of the avuncular and the sociopathic is still my favourite quote from this thread.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link
He's not a bad lad, he takes a drink.He's not a bad lad, he's a Jack The Lad.
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link
No matter how many times you read it, it always feels just beyond understanding.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:37 (eight years ago) link
It can be very unfair on my family. Funnily enough it was my kids’ birthday on Wednesday and it’s my wife’s birthday today so it’s been a busy week for me.My twin boys Zach and Finn ran into my room yesterday shouting, ‘Daddy, we’re four!’ But I just pulled my covers over my head saying, ‘I don’t care if you’re four, leave me alone!’It really affects your life and it hurts so much when you get a bad result because you put so much into it and the whole club hurts.We hurt, the fans hurt, I’m sure the board hurts – everybody hurts.It’s difficult when your kids come in the next morning happy to be four and you’re telling them to go away and give you peace. That’s the job you choose though. It hurts a lot when you’re not winning and we need to make sure we get back to winning ways against Hearts on Sunday.
My twin boys Zach and Finn ran into my room yesterday shouting, ‘Daddy, we’re four!’ But I just pulled my covers over my head saying, ‘I don’t care if you’re four, leave me alone!’
It really affects your life and it hurts so much when you get a bad result because you put so much into it and the whole club hurts.
We hurt, the fans hurt, I’m sure the board hurts – everybody hurts.
It’s difficult when your kids come in the next morning happy to be four and you’re telling them to go away and give you peace. That’s the job you choose though. It hurts a lot when you’re not winning and we need to make sure we get back to winning ways against Hearts on Sunday.
Martin Canning, Hamilton Academicals, January 2016.
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 22:17 (eight years ago) link
Needs to start hurting hearts on the pitch.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 22:27 (eight years ago) link
I sincerely hope that was a touch of hyperbole or poetic license. and he didn't actually, you know, tell his 4 year old children to go away on the morning of their birthday
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
yeah that's p heartwrenching if true.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 22:39 (eight years ago) link
The players and the crowd were getting upset with the referee and the frustration was not helping us. When they came in at half time, I told them to chill out. That frustration leads to a tightening of the muscles and you end up tense and unnatural.
That frustration leads to a tightening of the muscles and you end up tense and unnatural.
Lee Johnson, Bristol City, April 2016
― r|t|c, Thursday, 7 April 2016 11:42 (eight years ago) link
We've got to respect the way we play
David Flitcroft, Mansfield Town, March 2017
― imago, Sunday, 11 March 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link
I literally came here to post that I hoped David Flitcroft was still in a job.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 March 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
visited parents' for mothers' day, ended up watching C5 football highlights with my dad, Flitcroft was onscreen for about 15 seconds and he still managed to say that
― imago, Sunday, 11 March 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
Best thread.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 20:55 (five years ago) link
an old brendan rodgers quote which i used as my signature on a celtic forum:
"I always say a squad is like a good meal. I'm not a great cook, but a good meal takes a wee bit of time. But also, to offer a good meal you need good ingredients."
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 21:02 (five years ago) link
Feature on Graham Potter in the Graun
Upstairs at Brighton & Hove Albion’s striking Y-shaped training pavilion, Graham Potter is talking through how he came to lend his copy of the Dalai Lama’s Ancient Wisdom, Modern World to one of his former players at Östersund a couple of years ago. Curtis Edwards was at home watching Netflix when, around 8pm, the manager called asking whether he was busy. Kyle Macaulay, the scout who has followed Potter from Sweden to Swansea and now Brighton, drove Edwards to the Jämtkraft Arena and for the next hour and a half Potter and he spoke openly about almost everything but football.“We were just chatting and chatting and we got on to reading,” explains Potter. “In the end, I just said: ‘Have a read of that.’ Curtis was one of those guys that whenever he made a mistake, he beat himself up a lot and it was just trying to change how he thought. I showed him games where his head was up in the air when he had made a mistake and actually he should have been reacting to what’s happening rather than worrying and beating himself up about making a mistake. The Dalai Lama is quite a clever guy, isn’t he? He puts things into perspective a little bit, and I just thought: ‘Why not?’”
“We were just chatting and chatting and we got on to reading,” explains Potter. “In the end, I just said: ‘Have a read of that.’ Curtis was one of those guys that whenever he made a mistake, he beat himself up a lot and it was just trying to change how he thought. I showed him games where his head was up in the air when he had made a mistake and actually he should have been reacting to what’s happening rather than worrying and beating himself up about making a mistake. The Dalai Lama is quite a clever guy, isn’t he? He puts things into perspective a little bit, and I just thought: ‘Why not?’”
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 2 August 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
We've got a live one in Motherwell's Stephen Robinson:
We lacked real men. They had more men in their team. I don't think they out-passed us or outplayed us. We played with no purpose. We passed for the sake of passing without trying to break them down.When Declan Gallagher is playing with a high temperature and flu and he's the best player on the pitch for us, it tells you he's a proper man, proper footballer.Players have a habit of making you look stupid, but that's the level of player we're able to recruit, and we have to educate them. That has to happen sooner rather than later or they won't play in the team.
When Declan Gallagher is playing with a high temperature and flu and he's the best player on the pitch for us, it tells you he's a proper man, proper footballer.
Players have a habit of making you look stupid, but that's the level of player we're able to recruit, and we have to educate them. That has to happen sooner rather than later or they won't play in the team.
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 17 August 2019 09:26 (four years ago) link
nice
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Saturday, 17 August 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
a treasure trove here from clyde's danny lennon:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/49889805
"I would bring back national service," he says. "There you go."As a parent myself, we've only got ourselves to blame. I'm not saying we've brought our kids up badly, but most kids want for very, very little."There's no respect or discipline for people of authority now. You can even see kids, when the police stop them, actually videoing the police questioning them. It's incredible."With the way you handle younger players now, there are very, very little that can take constructive criticism well, it's just the soft generation we have. As long as you're honest and can back criticism up, the players have got to come round to your way of thinking and you find a solution together. It's not us and it's not them; it's we."
"As a parent myself, we've only got ourselves to blame. I'm not saying we've brought our kids up badly, but most kids want for very, very little.
"There's no respect or discipline for people of authority now. You can even see kids, when the police stop them, actually videoing the police questioning them. It's incredible.
"With the way you handle younger players now, there are very, very little that can take constructive criticism well, it's just the soft generation we have. As long as you're honest and can back criticism up, the players have got to come round to your way of thinking and you find a solution together. It's not us and it's not them; it's we."
"Give me 20-25 kids, and I would take them away to an island for five years where nobody could get access to them and then bring them back," he says. "Discipline, total football, no outside influence, and work with them daily. I would love somebody to invest in that for three years to see where it could take you."In Spain, they do that to a certain degree. The infrastructure and housing clubs have for kids from all over Spain, they have them in there as footballers and give them that education. We've got technically gifted players, as good as there are in Spain. The difference is, I find foreign players are more aware before they receive the ball of what's in and around them."If you watch a wee sparrow on a fence, its head's on a swivel, it's always watching for predators coming. It always knows where the defender is, where team-mates are. It's that awareness we've got to improve."
"In Spain, they do that to a certain degree. The infrastructure and housing clubs have for kids from all over Spain, they have them in there as footballers and give them that education. We've got technically gifted players, as good as there are in Spain. The difference is, I find foreign players are more aware before they receive the ball of what's in and around them.
"If you watch a wee sparrow on a fence, its head's on a swivel, it's always watching for predators coming. It always knows where the defender is, where team-mates are. It's that awareness we've got to improve."
less funny stuff at the bottom about him making the rapist david goodwillie captain of the side
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
Give me 20-25 kids, and I would take them away to an island for five years where nobody could get access to them and then bring them back,"
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
"Give me 20-25 kids, and I would take them away to an island for five years where nobody could get access to them and then bring them back," he says. "Discipline, total football, no outside influence, and work with them daily. I would love somebody to invest in that for three years to see where it could take you.
Looking for 3 years investment in a 5 year programme. Then it's Lord of the Flies.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 10:36 (four years ago) link
That is great though. He did win the League Cup for St. Mirren, I'll give him that.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 11:08 (four years ago) link
"Terriers boss Cowley already admitted he is not "scared" of clubs showing interest in Grant.He said: "I only worry if other clubs don't want my players because it's a bit like having a girlfriend, isn't it?"
He said: "I only worry if other clubs don't want my players because it's a bit like having a girlfriend, isn't it?"
christ, the last one we had Siewart was a steaming turd of a manager, but at least he didn't talk much.
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/grimsby-sacked-boss-michael-jolley-20900760
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 November 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
"Every time you interview me you're antagonistic, confrontational, who do you think you are, Jeremy Paxman?"
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 November 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
I advise my players to have sex for short periods and with the minimum of effort and use positions where they are under their partners and preferably with their wives. Because if with others, well, that will need extra action.
– Antonio Conte
― mizzell, Friday, 22 November 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 20:55 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
^^^
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Sunday, 4 October 2020 09:39 (three years ago) link
Not quite worthy of this thread but worth recording
winners have a good perfume, and when you don't win you smell so bad"
Pep Guardiola, Manchester, October 2020
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Sunday, 4 October 2020 09:42 (three years ago) link
“It's no good him getting 100 goals if we're letting in 50 the other end'.”John Yems, Crawley Town, October 2020(This interview is a minor classic of the “manager spitting feathers” genre, the context is we’d just scraped a 2-1 win over Crawley with a jammy goal; Yems used to be Asst Manager at Exeter.)
― Tim, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 07:43 (three years ago) link
This, I mean: https://youtu.be/PuVXi3sqIkw
― Tim, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 08:53 (three years ago) link
what do we make of that from yerman. gonna say I'm in favour
― imago, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 11:39 (three years ago) link
Baxter?
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 11:40 (three years ago) link
dyche ffs
THE PRESS | WARNING: This isn't your average press conference! 😳😅— Burnley FC (@BurnleyOfficial) February 2, 2021
― imago, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 11:45 (three years ago) link
Do people really say "lookylikey"?
Takes me back to the days of person sending round chain emails with terribly compressed jpgs of Denis Irwin/Carlos the Jackal
― The Man DeLorean (onimo), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 11:58 (three years ago) link
Cant be having with any of this foreign luki-liki nonsense, four at the back, two up front and go long when you have to
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 12:22 (three years ago) link
'pinteresque'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJfLHmU1eRE
― he ain't perfect but fuck me he's a rheillee (imago), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 11:15 (two years ago) link
new fave gaffer obv
He was our assistant mgr under Tisdale for a bit, always seemed an odd combo.
― Tim, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 11:56 (two years ago) link
Not really in the spirit of the thread but it’ll have to do. This story was told on the Exeter fans forum today:
They used to tell a story at Plymouth Argyle, going back to the days when Peter Shilton had been placed in charge of the team, that offers a little snapshot perhaps of how sometimes even the greats of the sport can lose their sheen once they dabble in the unforgiving world of football management.Shilton was player-manager, or rather goalkeeper-manager, at the time. Plymouth were slipping into trouble in the old Third Division, the fingers of relegation closing round their necks for the second time in three years, and Shilton was trying to encourage his players to believe they could clamber away from the bottom three and rise like a “pheasant from the flames”.After a slightly awkward silence, someone tentatively pointed out the word he might have been looking for was “phoenix”. Shilton, standing in front of his players as a double European Cup winner and the record England appearance-maker, paused for a few moments to take it in, the realisation dawning that his motivational speech had not gone quite as planned. He needed a line to reassert his authority. “I knew it began with an F,” he said.
― Tim, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 09:06 (two years ago) link
Ha
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 09:46 (two years ago) link