Please support your local team. or My football philosophy is to improve players and the way they think about the game.
Former its in all of his programme notes so far. Co-incidence is there are stickers over Bristol baring the old badge and a similar phrase a year before he arrived.
Older posters will remember Pride of the West. "Believe" felt a bit contrived to myself, but the odd phrase synonymous with a club can be of commercial benefit.
Must admit, when the whole of AG sang "always believe" that night against Palace, it made me shiver from head to toe. I also laugh when, to the same tune, the EE sing "We're winning at home, we're winning at home, how **** must you be, we're winning at home".......terrace chants at its best!
He seems to keep banging on about it being about "proceses" rather than "outcomes". So we did all the right things at Leeds but the outcome was a defeat. Have heard him say this a number of times and look as if he doesn't expect the interviewer to understand, but he'll say it anyway. I don't really care - as long as we keep winning!
He believes that doing the right thing on the field and making a mistake is better that kicking the ball aimlessly up the field, he wants players to think and look for options themselves on the field. He says if players try to make passes to their own players and don't succeed it just means they need to practice their passing if they always just hoof the ball there is nothing he can do to help them improve as a player, plus always look out for your teammate and see if you can help them out, those are the processes he keeps going on about. It's not rocket science but it is the basis of a successful team.
Processes are what Spain do from ankle biters up ... Don't rate all that tippy tappy stuff never will get anywhere with it, keep it simple big toe punts up the pitch into channells then lots of straining to get the near post flick on ...
The outcome at Leeeds was an improvement that was built on v Watford. Short-termism has lost the club tens of millions and pushed it backwards. Long term thinking can build a club like Swansea. Concentrating on structures, process is common place in europe and many successful clubs are built on such e.g Ajax.
