CroJack
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Russell Martin is obviously the manager with whom I share footballing philosophy.
Some quotes (taken from WOL):
"This talk of a plan B, I don't understand what people mean. What they mean is, put a big guy up front. It's not happening, this style of play (our style of play) scores us a record goal and I feel strongly about this. It's a myth that that's the problem, it's not.
Our style of play gets us to the box three times more than the opposition, double the amount of touches in the opposition box.
I'm getting angry because it just gets thrown at us all the time.
Ultimately, I believe fundamentally in how the game should be played.
We won eight in 11 playing in the same way and then no one throws anything at you about the style of play, and then all of a sudden it's 'you need a plan B'. No. We need to get better at what we do. We need to solve more problems, being us with the identity we want to have at the football club, otherwise, you're just completely outcome based and every single result changes how you feel about the players, the club and the process.
I'm not going to do that because my job is to be consistent with what we are doing because fundamentally I believe in it and I believe in the players.
I have a real strong belief that they can be really brilliant. Really top.
I've said all the way along this season, the expectation is to improve and progress. We are doing that and come the end of the season that's when we will be judged.
After that, the expectation will I'm sure change again next year.
But fundamentally, have we improved the players? Yes. Have we improved the style of play? Yes. have we got an identity? Yes.
Do we still need to find solutions for a lot of problems? Of course we do.
Every team is capable of losing. We have something that is clear, it's consistent that everyone buys into, and ultimately I think we will be successful."
Amen. That's a manager I want.
Some quotes (taken from WOL):
"This talk of a plan B, I don't understand what people mean. What they mean is, put a big guy up front. It's not happening, this style of play (our style of play) scores us a record goal and I feel strongly about this. It's a myth that that's the problem, it's not.
Our style of play gets us to the box three times more than the opposition, double the amount of touches in the opposition box.
I'm getting angry because it just gets thrown at us all the time.
Ultimately, I believe fundamentally in how the game should be played.
We won eight in 11 playing in the same way and then no one throws anything at you about the style of play, and then all of a sudden it's 'you need a plan B'. No. We need to get better at what we do. We need to solve more problems, being us with the identity we want to have at the football club, otherwise, you're just completely outcome based and every single result changes how you feel about the players, the club and the process.
I'm not going to do that because my job is to be consistent with what we are doing because fundamentally I believe in it and I believe in the players.
I have a real strong belief that they can be really brilliant. Really top.
I've said all the way along this season, the expectation is to improve and progress. We are doing that and come the end of the season that's when we will be judged.
After that, the expectation will I'm sure change again next year.
But fundamentally, have we improved the players? Yes. Have we improved the style of play? Yes. have we got an identity? Yes.
Do we still need to find solutions for a lot of problems? Of course we do.
Every team is capable of losing. We have something that is clear, it's consistent that everyone buys into, and ultimately I think we will be successful."
Amen. That's a manager I want.
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