OSC Pre Match Conference Report
http://www.hullcityosc.com/match-report/4746/Up first, Marco
On last nights match – I’m happy with our performance, we got a good win for us, and sure will give us more confidence. He congratulated Jose Mourinho, but said he was unhappy that we didn’t achieve our goal of getting to the final.
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Our attitude is always 100%, sometimes other teams play better, but we have a good spirit.
On Snodgrass, we’ll see – he’s not trained for a number of days.
Leon Bailey he agreed, looks as though he’s heading towards Bayern Leverkusen, despite being heavily linked with Hull City.
Marco did not want to talk about other names outside of our players at our club, and said he knew nothing about any transfer speculation surrounding Abel Hernandez.
The FA Cup is important to us, it’s a priority because it’s our next game, our players should be ready to play in the first 11. Fulham are a good team, they play well. They are fighting for promotion and will for sure cause us problems.
We must take games and training, step by step, and respect our opposition.
On Ryan Mason, Marco reconfirmed that he will definitely see him this weekend.
It’s important if Robert Snodgrass goes, that we replace him.
Good signals for Marco, and for the players thus far in Marcos reign about staying in the Premier League.
Marco hopes all deals involving the Club will be closed in advance of Tuesday – the important thing is that players coming in will improve our squad.
Then David Meyler:
Disappointed to not get to the EFL Cup final, but delighted to beat Manchester Utd.
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We’ve won our last 3 home games, the manager has new ideas, we’re enjoying the training, and everyone is working hard. Majority of us are experienced pros, we want to remain in the Premier League, we deserve to be, we have been down to the bare bones with injuries at times but we’ve done well. We only need 11 players to play a match, there are 11 of us. He laughs. There’s no doubt it will be tough.
The FA Cup final was amazing, it’s a chance to win silverware, I’ve been fortunate to play in one, I’ve won 2 promotions with Hull City.
We had more chances last night to score, Dawson was in a great position – he laughs again, ‘I think he must have frozen, and he’s our second top goal scorer’.
David didn’t go into the detail of Marco’s training regime, but said he’s implementing his own ideas.
On transfers in & out, Jake is a good friend so it’s sad to see him go, Snodgrass is still a
Hull player and he’s been impressed by the new additions coming in.
Steve Bruce was a great man manager and I can’t say a bad word about him! He was my manager for 8 years.
