Post match interviews

[Gavlar]

So Adkins has gone, no surprise from me. I still would have kept him and given him more time, but hey were Sheff Utd, sackings what we do.

One thing that puzzles me tho, is the continual slagging off of our managers in press conferences (Adkins no exception). I haven't been posting here for that many seasons (maybe 4?) but every manager in that time has had the majority of their press conferences/post match interviews lambasted. I just wonder if we have any blades managers who we enjoy listening to after a match? For me, I couldn't care less what they say, its all about how we play and the results. I almost never listen to the interviews anyway, as generally with every football club, they are boring as sin.

Are they an important factor in a manager?

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Think Sheffield folk prefer plain language so when some cunt comes out talking Bollox about geese and telling us that we don't see the hard work shit bastards like Hammond are doing we feel like we are being patronised.

Then saying bottom of league was always going to be a hard game.

Think Sam Allardyce once said, you can't fool 20000 punters....

 

[Tyler Durden]

So Adkins has gone, no surprise from me. I still would have kept him and given him more time, but hey were Sheff Utd, sackings what we do.

One thing that puzzles me tho, is the continual slagging off of our managers in press conferences (Adkins no exception). I haven't been posting here for that many seasons (maybe 4?) but every manager in that time has had the majority of their press conferences/post match interviews lambasted. I just wonder if we have any blades managers who we enjoy listening to after a match? For me, I couldn't care less what they say, its all about how we play and the results. I almost never listen to the interviews anyway, as generally with every football club, they are boring as sin.

Are they an important factor in a manager?

We were spoiled by Neil Warnocks colourful turns of phrase and flights of fancy after every game. It's a hard act to follow.

They don't mean a thing, they're a perfunctory routine. Occasionally you might get some insight, but that generally means the managers lost it and is about to be sacked.

 

[Sheffsteel]

We sack managers so often because the board are ambitious and won't accept failure.

Adkins was given the 2nd highest budget in league 1
But he couldn't motivate the players, took ages to find his best 11.
Took ages to even know the best formation.
Many of the players went backwards. Done looks disinterested. Adams hasn't progressed as expected.
Our corners and set pieces are hopeless (never look like scoring from a corner)
The players start in a slow tempo and when we concede heads drop as they lose confidence.

We need leadership and motivation.

Warnock goes into Rotherham and their ordinary players suddenly look a good team.
Adkins has a great cv but hasn't shown any sign of being a good manager.

As the board are so ambitious and desperate to get promoted they won't accept underperformance.
Hence we've gone for 1 of the highest rated young managers in the lower divisions.

 

[Gavlar]

Think Sheffield folk prefer plain language so when some cunt comes out talking Bollox about geese and telling us that we don't see the hard work shit bastards like Hammond are doing we feel like we are being patronised.

Then saying bottom of league was always going to be a hard game.
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Think Sheffield folk prefer plain language so when some cunt comes out talking Bollox about geese and telling us that we don't see the hard work shit bastards like Hammond are doing we feel like we are being patronised.

Then saying bottom of league was always going to be a hard game.

Think Sam Allardyce once said, you can't fool 20000 punters....

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I take your point, but who would you put in the plain language camp? Warnock? Wilson? Morgan? Bassett?[/

 

[Gavlar]

We sack managers so often because the board are ambitious and won't accept failure.

Adkins was given the 2nd highest budget in league 1
But he couldn't motivate the players, took ages to find his best 11.
Took ages to even know the best formation.
Many of the players went backwards. Done looks disinterested. Adams hasn't progressed as expected.
Our corners and set pieces are hopeless (never look like scoring from a corner)
The players start in a slow tempo and when we concede heads drop as they lose confidence.

We need leadership and motivation.

Warnock goes into Rotherham and their ordinary players suddenly look a good team.
Adkins has a great cv but hasn't shown any sign of being a good manager.

As the board are so ambitious and desperate to get promoted they won't accept underperformance.
Hence we've gone for 1 of the highest rated young managers in the lower divisions.

They seem to accept their own underperformance with ease........

 

[Muttley]

Yes. For me anyway. Adkins never once admitted we played under the desired level, never once said it how it was. He couldn't connect with the fans who needed a bit of honesty and wanted him to see things as we did. Personally I hate all this "David Brent" motivational speak. We are fans and not employees in a multi National corporation. All the average fan wanted was to know that our manager was singing from the same hymn sheet as the rest of us. I never felt that with Adkins.
I wish him well, he's not a bad person, just not rigjt for us unfortunately.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Dave Bassett:

"Our forwards couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo"

"The only way we'll get a penalty this season is if one of our players gets gang-banged in the box"

Honesty was definitely his policy!

 

[Pollingtonblade]

I take your point, but who would you put in the plain language camp? Warnock? Wilson? Morgan? Bassett?[/

Warnock definitely - Bassett certainly, Morgan had the potential to.

 

[Gavlar]

We were spoiled by Neil Warnocks colourful turns of phrase and flights of fancy after every game. It's a hard act to follow.

They don't mean a thing, they're a perfunctory routine. Occasionally you might get some insight, but that generally means the managers lost it and is about to be sacked.

I get the feeling that if results were like they are now, those colourful turns of phrase may have been called 'utter bollox'.

I'm a Warnock fan, but I cant help but think that his interviews were seen through rose tinted glasses. I would be willing to wager, that the year we went down fromt he prem, people on here probably slagged off what he said, esp when we lost.

 

[PeteBlade]

We sack managers so often because the board are ambitious and won't accept failure.

Adkins was given the 2nd highest budget in league 1
But he couldn't motivate the players, took ages to find his best 11.
Took ages to even know the best formation.
Many of the players went backwards. Done looks disinterested. Adams hasn't progressed as expected.
Our corners and set pieces are hopeless (never look like scoring from a corner)
The players start in a slow tempo and when we concede heads drop as they lose confidence.

We need leadership and motivation.

Warnock goes into Rotherham and their ordinary players suddenly look a good team.
Adkins has a great cv but hasn't shown any sign of being a good manager.

As the board are so ambitious and desperate to get promoted they won't accept underperformance.
Hence we've gone for 1 of the highest rated young managers in the lower divisions.

2nd highest budget in league one?
Highest rated 'young' managers?

 

[Gavlar]

Warnock definitely - Bassett certainly, Morgan had the potential to.

I seem to remember Morgs after match comments being how he was "proud of the teams efforts", despite an inept display to tamely lose away to footballs giants Yeovil in the semi final?

 

[Pollingtonblade]

I seem to remember Morgs after match comments being how he was "proud of the teams efforts", despite an inept display to tamely lose away to footballs giants Yeovil in the semi final?

That's what I meant had potential to but wasn't fulfilled

 

[Gavlar]

That's what I meant had potential to but wasn't fulfilled

Potential to talk more crap than adkins?

 

[Tyler Durden]

I get the feeling that if results were like they are now, those colourful turns of phrase may have been called 'utter bollox'.

I'm a Warnock fan, but I cant help but think that his interviews were seen through rose tinted glasses. I would be willing to wager, that the year we went down fromt he prem, people on here probably slagged off what he said, esp when we lost.

The things he said were seen as utter bollocks at the time as well (sometimes by me).

But I always saw his statements as an attempt to develop some sort of siege mentality amongst the players and fans. That "us against the world" spirit. Bassett did the same thing at times. I think a club like ours thrives on that.

 

[alcoblade]

We sack managers so often because the board are ambitious and won't accept failure.

Adkins was given the 2nd highest budget in league 1
But he couldn't motivate the players, took ages to find his best 11.
Took ages to even know the best formation.
Many of the players went backwards. Done looks disinterested. Adams hasn't progressed as expected.
Our corners and set pieces are hopeless (never look like scoring from a corner)
The players start in a slow tempo and when we concede heads drop as they lose confidence.

We need leadership and motivation.

Warnock goes into Rotherham and their ordinary players suddenly look a good team.
Adkins has a great cv but hasn't shown any sign of being a good manager.

As the board are so ambitious and desperate to get promoted they won't accept underperformance.
Hence we've gone for 1 of the highest rated young managers in the lower divisions.

He wasn't given the second highest budget in league one, he adopted it.

The unmovable, expensive enormous squad is gradually being shifted to Shrewsbury and Fleetwood. That's what Adkins was gifted.

UTB

 

[Bergen Blade]

Warnock goes into Rotherham and their ordinary players suddenly look a good team.
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They were outplayed on Saturday though. Harry came on and did well in midfield for Hull. He seemed popular with their fans.

 

[Gavlar]

The things he said were seen as utter bollocks at the time as well (sometimes by me).

But I always saw his statements as an attempt to develop some sort of siege mentality amongst the players and fans. That "us against the world" spirit. Bassett did the same thing at times. I think a club like ours thrives on that.

No one likes us, we don't care?

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

If Chris Wilder has a season with us like he did in the one just gone with Northampton, he can dress up as a goose, say whatever he wants, tell us to fuck off down to Meadowhall, & call us whatever names come into his head.

The interviews only get dissected & endlessly criticised because we're underachieving.

(That said, I wasn't internet savvy during the Warnock years. Maybe his interviews got pulled apart during the Triple Assault & the promotion seasons? I suspect not though.)

 

[CaptainMorgans]

To be fair, whatever else you might say about Clough I always thought he was very honest and straight talking in his interviews. As a personality he felt a good fit for this club to me, a very principled man, who wouldn't take any crap, liked hard working players and played football (initially) at a high tempo. He always answered the question he was asked fairly directly, even in relation to transfers.

Unfortunately some of his characteristics manifested themselves in being stubborn, inflexible and a little too ruthless. He was trusted, to a negligent extent, with too much money and he spunked it.

Adkins and Weir are the worst two we've had for interviews in my opinion, for very different reasons.

Wilder comes across as passionate, but not particularly eloquent and lacking a bit in humour/charm. But he certainly seems honest and straight talking and a complete football head.

 

[Tyler Durden]

No one likes us, we don't care?

Exactly. We've never been the darlings of English football. We're.....different.

I think that the likes of Warnock and Bassett instinctively knew that on some level.

 

[Gavlar]

If Chris Wilder has a season with us like he did in the one just gone with Northampton, he can dress up as a goose, say whatever he wants, tell us the fuck off down to Meadowhall, & call us whatever names come into his head.

The interviews only get dissected & endlessly criticised because we're underachieving.

(That said, I wasn't internet savvy during the Warnock years. Maybe his interviews got pulled apart during the Triple Assault & the promotion seasons? I suspect not though.)

That's exactly my point. Interviews are insignificant, results matter, but when things go badly, it seems like the interviews get ripped to shreds.

 

[blade67]

So Adkins has gone, no surprise from me. I still would have kept him and given him more time, but hey were Sheff Utd, sackings what we do.

One thing that puzzles me tho, is the continual slagging off of our managers in press conferences (Adkins no exception). I haven't been posting here for that many seasons (maybe 4?) but every manager in that time has had the majority of their press conferences/post match interviews lambasted. I just wonder if we have any blades managers who we enjoy listening to after a match? For me, I couldn't care less what they say, its all about how we play and the results. I almost never listen to the interviews anyway, as generally with every football club, they are boring as sin.

Are they an important factor in a manager?

No - they mean sweet FA

simply don't understand the fuss made of them on here. Let's be honest (Warnock apart , who was clearly mad) when the manager is winning, no one gives two hoots what rubbish they come out with.

Lose a few and they could talk like Winston Churchill and still get slagged off.

if we'd finished top, Adkins could have said that he hated everything about Sheffield and plenty would have said it was fair comment. Wilder needs to win football matches, and not care about what radio Sheffield ask him