It is frustrating, but if I was sat there thinking I got the tactics wrong, I would look closer to myself. Unfortunately, you put your faith in other people when you throw them out there.
Richie Barker, Crawley Town, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 9 November 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link
We've agreed to cover the cost of the fans that travelled. Not because we're creeping, it's a gesture of appreciation.
Mark Cooper, Swindon Town, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 11 November 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
A couple of lads turned up late because of a fire on the M6, but you can't use that as an excuse.
Jim Bentley, Morecambe, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link
✓
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 10:07 (ten years ago) link
We are only going to be successful if we taste failure. We have tasted it and we don't like it.
Russell Slade, Leyton Orient, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Thursday, 14 November 2013 01:27 (ten years ago) link
It's not quite Ocean's Eleven, it's more Ocean's Three, so we hope to bring one or two others as well.
Terry Butcher, Hibernian, November 2013
― grown-arsed man (onimo), Thursday, 14 November 2013 11:27 (ten years ago) link
I said last week that we hadn't turned the corner but I think we are further into turning the corner.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 16 November 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
We can't look for reasons or excuses
Graham Turner, Shrewsbury Town, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 16 November 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
There was a sentimental fatigue and probably a physical fatigue.
Graham Westley, Stevenage, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 16 November 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
(actually, it appears that Westley one is just a case of dodgy transcription rather than what he actually said)
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 16 November 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
“We have to believe in what we do. We’ve had a few variables that have been changing a lot over the course of the last month, and I need to try to put more constants back into the game and back into the performance, and make fewer variables to discuss, quantify, assess and coach – and we’ll get back on it.
Paul Tisdale, Exeter City, November 2013.
― Tim, Friday, 22 November 2013 11:54 (ten years ago) link
Actually, there's more of this which I think is worth it.
I’ve had a day or two in my study looking at all the factors. There’s what we’ve been coaching – as there’s often a correlation between what you coach and how the performance manifests itself – but also players in and out of form, combinations of players, systems, opposition, league, statistics and evidence.I’ve been swamped in evidence, rumour, gossip, discussion, debate and everything else – my job is to pick through it all and pick out one or two things to concentrate on, and I have done. That’s my job and I pride myself on digging deep.
I’ve been swamped in evidence, rumour, gossip, discussion, debate and everything else – my job is to pick through it all and pick out one or two things to concentrate on, and I have done. That’s my job and I pride myself on digging deep.
― Tim, Friday, 22 November 2013 11:57 (ten years ago) link
(Tis has a particular way of expressing himself which can be hilariously at the managementspeak end of wisdom-of-gaffers but when he says something like that he's generally getting at something or other. I think in this case he's trying to convey to people that deciding on a team and tactics is complicated, and tweaking teams is even more so.)
― Tim, Friday, 22 November 2013 12:02 (ten years ago) link
If we don't win, on a Sunday morning it really doesn't work for me. I get a real strong feeling of anger. A real strong feeling of frustration. A strong feeling of looking in the mirror and hating myself.That isn't a good way for me to be and live.
That isn't a good way for me to be and live.
It's not a question of just needing to win because of a league position. That would be the last thing in the world that would drive me. What would drive me is my personal pride, desire and hunger.
― William Bloody Swygart, Friday, 22 November 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link
"A strong feeling of looking in the mirror and hating myself."
amazing
― i have sounded the very dub step of humility (anonanon), Friday, 22 November 2013 21:52 (ten years ago) link
Accrington is the one of the places that nobody wants to go to. The surroundings aren't the greatest but you've just got to go there and play.
Alan Knill, Torquay United, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Friday, 22 November 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
Without dreams you can’t be successful trying to achieve those dreams.
I think Jack Wilshere has got that final pass, the little bit of creativity, that little bit of being able to break down a defence all day long.
Sam Allardyce, West Ham United, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Friday, 22 November 2013 22:18 (ten years ago) link
I love those Westley quotes. Looked at the BBC league one page more often than usual this week just so I could see the headline "Losing makes Westley hate himself".
― oppet, Friday, 22 November 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
There have been so many managers here - when do you stop?
Dave Jones, Sheffield Wednesday, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 23 November 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link
This thread never fails to deliver. Strong feeling of hating myself, the poor man is suffering!
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Saturday, 23 November 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
It would have been better if we had won
Aitor Karanka, Middlesbrough, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 23 November 2013 23:28 (ten years ago) link
You can feel sorry for yourself or bounce back quickly, and that's what we'll do.
Owen Coyle, Wigan Athletic, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 23 November 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link
With regards to the penalty, I agreed with the linesman. I am sure their manager will agree with the referee.
Billy Davies, Nottingham Forest, November 2013.
We have 20-something players who are working hard for the cause. Billy Davies has spoken about his injuries. I think he was down to 32 players.
Sean Dyche, Burnley, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 23 November 2013 23:36 (ten years ago) link
It panned out like we thought it would, Crewe came out with fire in their bellies, took us by surprise and went a goal ahead.
Micky Adams, Port Vale, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 23 November 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link
Performance-wise, I couldn't fault the performance of the lads
Nigel Worthington, York City, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Sunday, 24 November 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
We lost because we weren't good enough - all 14 of us. And, if you want to include me in that, all 15 of us, because I picked the side.
― William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
We weren't given the opportunity to reflect our capabilities. That's not the players' fault or to their detriment. We haven't been thrashed at home - we've been denied an opportunity.
Keith Hill, Rochdale, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
We need better game management. The players must learn to dip a toe in and work things out.
Colin Cooper, Hartlepool United, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
They've got the injuries on behalf of the crusade we're on and it does become upsetting, both from a purely selfish point of view and when you empathise with them and their plights.
Aidy Boothroyd, Northampton Town, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Thursday, 28 November 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
Thanks to this thread I sometimes find myself skim reading interviews just looking for classic gaffer wisdom.
― whilsting away the day (onimo), Thursday, 28 November 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
that aidy one really is something
― r|t|c, Thursday, 28 November 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
There have been disappointments along the way, and you're going to get them in football whether I'm there or I'm not.
Paul Ince, Blackpool, November 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Friday, 29 November 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25171704
RIP ;_;
― r|t|c, Saturday, 30 November 2013 18:39 (ten years ago) link
knew this would happen when I saw the h/t score. peace god, the dream is dead
― veneer timber (imago), Saturday, 30 November 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
Everyone wants me to be happier than I am, but maybe my standards are high.
Gary Johnson, Yeovil Town, December 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Sunday, 8 December 2013 01:43 (ten years ago) link
'David is a dedicated individual who will not accept anything but the best for Bury Football Club,' said chairman Stewart Day.
― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 07:58 (ten years ago) link
yessssss
― veneer timber (imago), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 10:43 (ten years ago) link
He had received offers from other clubs at a higher level, but he has bought into what we are trying to achieve at this club and has committed his future to take us back to where we belong, the Championship.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 10:44 (ten years ago) link
Feel like "bought into what we are trying to achieve" has shot up the cliché charts in recent years.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 10:45 (ten years ago) link
the other day i was chatting with some random bloke at work and he was like "yer no sahnds like a good project at qpr" and reader let me tell u the intrusion of that word into the general phatic vernacular was like a icy dagger to my heart
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 11:45 (ten years ago) link
i might start trying to introduce "we are in a good moment" into my meetings. tho we're in a shit moment for months with lay-offs and redundancies so maybe it's more a 2014 plan.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 11:46 (ten years ago) link
solid q1 reducer will put right to that
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 11:57 (ten years ago) link
We all know that the goal factor is the problem for us
Sam Allardyce, West Ham United, December 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 14 December 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
I cannot just think about the result because if I do I kill myself
Gus Poyet, Sunderland, December 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 14 December 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
clearly a classic
― veneer timber (imago), Saturday, 14 December 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
After two minutes the ball ends up in our net on the rebound and that is a bit disappointing because we had the ball for the first minute and 50 seconds.
Steve Cotterill, Bristol City, December 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 14 December 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link
One of the officials said to me 'we're well aware of what's going on'. And I beg the question, what does that mean?
Graham Westley, Stevenage, December 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 14 December 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
As a coach, I've got to make sure we're getting players in the right areas and try to infiltrate what they are doing with the precision and movement I'm trying to bring to the club.
David Flitcroft, Bury, December 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 14 December 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
Two big players injured and a suspension. But this is football and I love my job.
Gareth Ainsworth, Wycombe Wanderers, December 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 14 December 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
I've got to look at the bigger picture - 10 points out of 12 in the last four games, three away games out of four; the only disappointment today for me was the officials.I suppose the other disappointing thing is that we've not managed to finish them off.
I suppose the other disappointing thing is that we've not managed to finish them off.
Russ Wilcox, Scunthorpe United, December 2013.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 14 December 2013 20:23 (ten years ago) link