Living in Riyadh, l found it much easier to get reliable streams when we were in the Championship than last season.
I find WS pre match presser's quite refreshing after what we have had recently I appreciate he is very uncomfortable doing them. But Martins I love my boys and it's all my fault (der! yes we're not Citeh!) Or the Calamity Jones car crash.
His body language says get me out of here, but he answers the questions the best he can, I'm sure he will have a PR team telling him what ha can and cannot say. His job is to work with the players, pressers are an obligation for TV it's part of the job. Some trainers/managers seem to love the attention.
That’s why I like him. Seemingly no ego or need for it to be about him. Quite the opposite. Just wants to do football!
Depends if he is as awkward when trying to motivate the team I suppose. It's hard to inspire a group without charisma or the ability to hold a room of people, even more so when you have no playing career that commands respect.
It'll be ok while we are winning games but fans soon find a way to pick on every little detail when it's not going so well, I remember Puel getting murdered for not speaking well in pressers.
Will Still was quite open about in the embargoed section of the press conference re: his recent tactical decisions and moving away from 4-2-3-1... for now on his early season tactics and swapping 4-2-3-1 for 3-4-3 and 3-5-2... It's been 100 per cent down to personnel. I think to play certain systems, like a four, you need certain profiles of players that we're not quite there on yet. And with wingers... with Tyler not being available, we've not got any out and out wingers. We've got a lot of inside forwards and players of that profile. So it's more a question of managing this month - with the transfer window still open - by being pragmatic, by being adaptable where we can be but also getting the best out of the players that we've got and ultimately, winning games. We just felt that for the last two games that it was what we needed to do and what needed to happen. But I think I've always said it, I'm not fixed on one shape or one formation or whatever it looks like. For me it's just about getting the best out of the players that we have available to us and that we can use moving forward. Ipswich play a back four for example, it's a proper 4-2-3-1 and so we need probably different profiles of players to play against that and to upset them. That's what we'll do, but we won't always adapt to everyone because we do want our own style and way of playing but there's a level of pragmatism and adaptability that we need to show to pick up points and that's what I'll do.
I guessed that the reason he went away from the back four was for the exact reasons he talked about, but its refreshing to hear him actually say it. He certainly does seem to be all about just winning a game of football regardless of substance or style.
