I've done different things with this squad; I've (treated*) them like Championship players, I've took 'em to hotels
David Flitcroft, Barnsley, June 2013.
*I couldn't work out how to spell Flitcroft's pronunciation of this - 'trett', possibly?
― William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 09:40 (ten years ago) link
And that quote's from May; from here, specifically.
He's got to get used to how we want to play and where we want to send players when they're in deep areas, because we're all different.
John Sheridan, Plymouth Argyle, July 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 09:50 (ten years ago) link
A young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player will look for a hole in the fence.
Brendan Rodgers, Liverpool, September 2012
― dinosaur coach, fitness clown & scientific cowboy (onimo), Thursday, 1 August 2013 10:27 (ten years ago) link
That one was heavily quoted at the time.
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Thursday, 1 August 2013 10:28 (ten years ago) link
so what
― r|t|c, Thursday, 1 August 2013 10:46 (ten years ago) link
bad day?
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Thursday, 1 August 2013 10:49 (ten years ago) link
not especially? i'm not the swivel-eyed red trying to diminish the man's post
― r|t|c, Thursday, 1 August 2013 10:59 (ten years ago) link
whatever - it's not even the best bit of rodgers' guff.
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Thursday, 1 August 2013 11:02 (ten years ago) link
I missed the quote at the time, I only picked up on it coz it r|t|c linked to it on the rolling racism and homophobia at Liverpool thread.
― dinosaur coach, fitness clown & scientific cowboy (onimo), Thursday, 1 August 2013 11:30 (ten years ago) link
yeah sorry, i wasn't having a major go or anything.
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Thursday, 1 August 2013 11:35 (ten years ago) link
There are many similarities between ourselves and Gillingham.
Joe Dunne, Colchester United, August 2013.
We are a much bigger club than them. Much bigger.
Martin Allen, Gillingham, August 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 3 August 2013 11:39 (ten years ago) link
I don't know a lot about Colchester to be honest. I know all their players, their style and how they try and play.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 3 August 2013 11:40 (ten years ago) link
We'll take a couple of cooling tablets, get ourselves a nice bottle of water, chill out and go out and smash them all again.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 3 August 2013 11:42 (ten years ago) link
radge stirs in medway silt
― imago, Saturday, 3 August 2013 11:45 (ten years ago) link
what is cooling tablet
― r|t|c, Saturday, 3 August 2013 11:51 (ten years ago) link
We are stronger than we were last year, although we're not quite up to speed in terms of the amount of bodies we've got in.
Ronnie Moore, Tranmere Rovers, August 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 3 August 2013 11:53 (ten years ago) link
We think we've signed some decent quality players. Obviously the nine months in front of us will tell us if we have.
Alan Knill, Torquay United, August 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 3 August 2013 11:56 (ten years ago) link
It will be blood and thunder on Saturday, everybody fighting for every inch, John Sheridan applying himself against me
Phil Brown, Southend United, August 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 3 August 2013 12:03 (ten years ago) link
We've lost three points but there's another 135 to go.
David Flitcroft, Barnsley, August 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 3 August 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
In terms of a changing team, it showed today that until you get into your level of play, you never quite know what you've got. That assessment has to come quickly.
Kenny Jackett, Wolverhampton Wanderers, August 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 3 August 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
Their belief and trust in each other is something we are trying to agenda in to our squad.There's five new players out there so it's going to take some time to embed.
There's five new players out there so it's going to take some time to embed.
Sean O'Driscoll, Bristol City, August 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 3 August 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
It's a big club which shouldn't be in the second division, gotta be at least in the Championship.
Gary Johnson, Yeovil Town, August 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:53 (ten years ago) link
Greatness itt
I liked rodgers fence one tbh
― clique- your heels, together (darraghmac), Sunday, 4 August 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
Competitions are always going to throw up difficult games
Nigel Pearson, Leicester City, August 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
I habitually Google-news-search the name of the company I work for and get a daily Nigel Pearson quote as my reward.
― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 23:05 (ten years ago) link
When you come up against such a direct team - a land of giants... you've gotta be able to withstand not nearly everyone, you've gotta withstand everyone
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:56 (ten years ago) link
Nurofen, here we come
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 10 August 2013 23:25 (ten years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/thingummy99/Screenshot2013-08-11at132737.png
James Beattie, Accrington Stanley, August 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Sunday, 11 August 2013 12:31 (ten years ago) link
The last thing I said to them when they went out was 'passion overcomes logic'.I'm not saying that's motivated them to go and win the game, but I asked them afterwards what I'd said to them and they all answered me.
I'm not saying that's motivated them to go and win the game, but I asked them afterwards what I'd said to them and they all answered me.
― William Bloody Swygart, Sunday, 11 August 2013 12:35 (ten years ago) link
plz no beattie pix, the mental image of a naked tony pulis headbutting him is forever attached
― r|t|c, Sunday, 11 August 2013 13:15 (ten years ago) link
You will always have people that, for whatever reason, don't like the way you look or don't like the colour of your hair.
Mark Hughes, Stoke City, August 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Thursday, 15 August 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
too right, the silver cunt
― r|t|c, Thursday, 15 August 2013 19:40 (ten years ago) link
If I were advising him I wouldn't be suggesting it. But he's obviously taking advice from other people.
Darren Ferguson, Peterborough United, August 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Thursday, 15 August 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
I'll think about that (making new signings) more on Sunday. Today is all about disappointment.
Steve Clarke, West Bromwich Albion, August 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 17 August 2013 20:58 (ten years ago) link
Our aim is to constantly sustain wins
Sean Dyche, Burnley, August 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 17 August 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
You talk to a mountain climber and if he's too scared to let go to try and get higher then you're going to fall off, aren't you?"
Ian Holloway, Crystal Palace, August 2013
― Third Rate Zoo Keepers With Tenth Rate Minds (Windsor Davies), Sunday, 18 August 2013 12:26 (ten years ago) link
We have made a good start. But what does that mean?
Billy Davies, Nottingham Forest, August 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 19 August 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
I didn't get relegated many times in my career
Greg Abbott, Carlisle United, August 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 19 August 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
The only inevitability in football is that you are going to lose games.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 19 August 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
It was a good challenge for us not to collapse and we didn't do that and deserved something from it.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 19 August 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
You have to have a certain mindset when you come to places like Stevenage, not just physically but also mentally
Russell Slade, Leyton Orient, August 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 19 August 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
nothing wrong with that
― dmacation problem (darraghmac), Monday, 19 August 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
Ah, I mostly liked that one cos it perfectly complements his face:
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65269000/jpg/_65269326_sod_sg.jpg
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 19 August 2013 15:54 (ten years ago) link
yesssssss
― dmacation problem (darraghmac), Monday, 19 August 2013 15:59 (ten years ago) link
will never forgive forest for breaking up the o'driscoll/coppell crawley dream fun train in its infancy
― r|t|c, Monday, 19 August 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
trying to imagine sod's chin up lad negotiating technique for when he pops into coppell's office and finds him about to kick the chair away
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 July 2012 21:53 (1 year ago) Bookmark
― r|t|c, Monday, 19 August 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link
To be able to bring on Hoffi with this freshness and virginity, to see him spread so much joy, was a wonderful thing.
Jürgen Klopp, Borussia Dortmund, August 2013.
― anonanon, Monday, 19 August 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
Football is strange. Even a midget can score a goal. Because he is intelligent.
Paolo Di Canio, Sunderland, August 2013
― mizzell, Sunday, 25 August 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
lol
― There are a lot of subjective opinions (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 25 August 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link