"The third goal makes it seem there was quite a distance between the two teams and it was far from that. We feel we did better than the scoreline suggested. It was a lot better today. It was certainly better than Sunday, from that point of view it's something we can take into Tuesday's game."
tbh, i'm starting to get a bit jaded by some of his frankly pi$$ wet post-match reactions. i want some blood & thunder, from time to time. "so danny. before we get your thoughts on the performance. you said before the game that you came here expecting to win, and we lost 3-1. where do you think we lost the game today'?
Genuinely find Criticisms of any managers comments post match amongst the most boring comments on here. At the end of the day if the team has lost it's possible to criticise anything the manager says after the match. If anyone can come up with a set of words that could be said after a loss that wouldn't draw any criticism I'd be genuinely interested to hear. Criticise the performance, fine.. But criticising post match comments that most managers probably don't want to give, and that will probably have no relation to what is fed back to the players seems overboard and unconstructive to me.
Against chesterfield I would have held me hands up and said my bad we were totally outplayed in middle of the park three in midfield didnt work.
"the performances aren't anywhere near good enough. No excuses. And i'm ultimately responsible for that. I completely understand fans frustrations, and they're right to criticise what they're seeing out there on the pitch at the minute. it's down to us to take that criticism on the chin, and try to put it right" That's what I want him to say. Word for word. Cheers
Aye and then have weeks of people saying even he knows he got it wrong, he's losing the plot. etc. Etc. Etc. I can think of about a thousand criticisms of that statement that I could have made if I were in a bad mood after that game. Yawn. Post match comments make no difference to anything. The constant obsession with analysing the minutia of every statement made after matches is dull.
Absolutely spot on. Who would want a bit of honesty rather than the bull&hit one liners that bear no resemblance to the game that you've just paid to watch.
that's as maybe. but it's what happens - after every game, by fans of every club, when their team has been $hit and lost. again. i don't think it's irrelevant at all. i think they're very relevant. otherwise every club in the world wouldn't have them i think fans want to hear an honest account of the performance. not some bland generic statement that gets churned out every week - which i think is taking the pi$$ out of fans, to be honest if we were top of the league, people would be eulogising about how fantastic his comments were, and what a brilliant effect they were having on fan feeling. would you also find those fan reactions dull?