Winkler & Scissors, Paper, Stone

Very impressed with Winkler. I quite like the fact that Stendel is letting him do the pressers. A lot better than via an interpreter. Magnanimous in defeat & didn't look for excuses.

He pretty much admitted it was a scissors, paper, stone situation, where one style overcomes another. Blackpool's long ball versus our passing play. They were better at doing what they do than we were on the night. The team is learning & some are taking to it quicker than others. Need to go back to the starting lineup from first two games. Although Kieffer isn't the best finisher, the amount of ground he covers & the problems he causes defences is priceless. I doubt we would have lost this one with him in.

 

All three of the coaches obviously trust each other and act as a unit.
They must be setting good examples to the players with their unity.
I like everyone else above really like listening to Andreas.

 

Great interviews, but I doubt it was a good idea to explain to the world how Blackpool were able to beat us.

 

Its good but my worry is that if things aren't going so well at some point in the season, fans will start bemoaning the fact that Stendel never comes out and speaks about the team.

 

Maybe it was a little bit of reverse psychology - show the world (well L1 anyway) how to beat us by using the long ball. Then we employ our Saturday/first team and we use the German press better than the English long ball.

Sorted.

 

He will do. He's learning English and doing it as fast as he can. Once he's confident using it, you'll see him doing more interviews I'm sure. Really helpful that his assistants speak good English and can guide him along. English is a pretty easy language to learn, the more difficult aspects are the huge amount of regional dialects and the slang and colloquialisms we use.

He'll be fine.

 

Not worried that Daniel isn't quite ready for the press yet.
Andreas & Chris are both very fluent and capable of delivering Daniels messages for now.
I look forward to when Daniel does interact with the press.
I imagine he may play a few games with them.
He isn't far off as the presser he did with Stern, he understood most of what was being said.

 

With the exception of Russian, English is the hardest language to learn properly. The reason being is that both languages have many exceptions to general rules. Try explaining the following pronunciation to say, a Japanese - bough, cough, dough.

 

Easier than 16 versions of "a"

 

Nice and nice
Reading and reading

The same words, both pronounced differently. Many other examples also exist.

 

English is incredibly easy to learn, that's why it's become a world business language. There are almost no cases or genders, and plurals are simple. Pronunciation is difficult at times, agreed, but otherwise it's simple. 16 different words for "the" in German, for example, along with 4 cases and 3 genders.

 

At least German mainly uses the 26 character English alphabet, and Cyrllic has around 40. Japanese has over 2,100 Kanji, Mandarin has 3-4,000.

 

Interesting you should say that as I was once told by a language teacher that English was one of the hardest .
On another thing though he did say Esperanto was the easiest and it would be the worlds choice language so he wasn’t all that knowledgeable

 

Hee hee, it was my language teacher (Sheffield Uni) who told me that English was one of the easiest! It's also been said to me many times by lots of German and Austrian friends who all think English is a doddle. I suppose it doesn't really matter, it is what it is.

 

Wait while he has to learn. Barnsley nar that should be worth waiting for

 

German press? English long ball?

 

That might be because Nice is French.

 

With our owners, I'd be surprised if ever the need arose, our German management team would very much know how to say the name of the aforementioned French football club.

 

So are several thousand other loan words

Maybe nice was bad example. Maybe live and live are a better one.