Edmundo
21st August 2004, 21:09
I am very disappointed in that performance. Without a shadow of a doubt that is the worst performance since I have been at the club. I am very disappointed. We had an awful lot of supporters here, and even at 3-0 down kept singing for their team. I personally found it quite gruelling. It could have been 7, and that’s not taking it lightly.
I’ll have to change it – I am not going to stand for that. I want to win badly. If you don’t win, it still has to be close. Its always going to be close. Today, it could have been 7-0.
It was disappointing. If we are going to lose, it has to be close. Whenever I have been involved, whatever team I was with – win, lose or draw it was close. Today it could have been 7. I am not going to stand here and knock individuals as they have just won the last 2 games they have played. They were unlucky at Chesterfield. Today, that was the worst performance since I took over. We have worked very hard at the training ground and preparation. First and foremost as manager I will look at what I have been doing with them. I will look how I have been doing training with them, and my methods. I will see if I have been getting it wrong.
It has come as a big shock. We have good individuals, but they have to play as a team. At any level if it’s the top team in the Premiership or the Rose and Crown on a Sunday, you have to work as a team. It doesn’t matter at what level. You have to compete. If you do not compete you do not win. That’s it. Forget all the passing and skills. You have to compete. You have to win tackles and headers. You have to have the desire and determination. How well you win the ball, twisting etc – you do not win.
We have conceded too many goals now, and there will be changes. I don’t think anybody could knock on my door and ask why. We caused problems for ourselves all over the pitch. I will not knock any individual, as it was a collective effort. That includes myself, staff and players. We are all responsible for that performance. We were poor. Its my responsibility. I am not going to stand in that box week in, week out and watch that. That hurts me.
I have never changed the training – they always do the same thing. We missed a few players obviously – we had one which came back from Jamaica on Thursday afternoon and we had another who has played twice this week. He is just getting a run in the first team, and has just been called up to the national team and its not easy to cope. But as a manager, I will have to take that into account next time.
(Thanks to Trandy.)
I’ll have to change it – I am not going to stand for that. I want to win badly. If you don’t win, it still has to be close. Its always going to be close. Today, it could have been 7-0.
It was disappointing. If we are going to lose, it has to be close. Whenever I have been involved, whatever team I was with – win, lose or draw it was close. Today it could have been 7. I am not going to stand here and knock individuals as they have just won the last 2 games they have played. They were unlucky at Chesterfield. Today, that was the worst performance since I took over. We have worked very hard at the training ground and preparation. First and foremost as manager I will look at what I have been doing with them. I will look how I have been doing training with them, and my methods. I will see if I have been getting it wrong.
It has come as a big shock. We have good individuals, but they have to play as a team. At any level if it’s the top team in the Premiership or the Rose and Crown on a Sunday, you have to work as a team. It doesn’t matter at what level. You have to compete. If you do not compete you do not win. That’s it. Forget all the passing and skills. You have to compete. You have to win tackles and headers. You have to have the desire and determination. How well you win the ball, twisting etc – you do not win.
We have conceded too many goals now, and there will be changes. I don’t think anybody could knock on my door and ask why. We caused problems for ourselves all over the pitch. I will not knock any individual, as it was a collective effort. That includes myself, staff and players. We are all responsible for that performance. We were poor. Its my responsibility. I am not going to stand in that box week in, week out and watch that. That hurts me.
I have never changed the training – they always do the same thing. We missed a few players obviously – we had one which came back from Jamaica on Thursday afternoon and we had another who has played twice this week. He is just getting a run in the first team, and has just been called up to the national team and its not easy to cope. But as a manager, I will have to take that into account next time.
(Thanks to Trandy.)