Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Apart from the weird 'history' thing, I just read it as the manager defending his young players, which is what I would have hoped he'd do. So fair play for that GP
Apart from the weird 'history' thing, I just read it as the manager defending his young players, which is what I would have hoped he'd do. So fair play for that GP
Interesting criticism from a man who took Maupay off for Locadia, and man of the match off early.
TB
We got back to The Bridge car park just in time to heat Graham Potter's post-match interview on SCR and I was quite surprised at hearing him bite back, just a little bit, when asked about the boos.
It stuck me as out of character for a man who, incident with Pep aside, always seem to be so in control of his emotions and how he expresses himself - never seeking to criticise, even where it seems obviously merited.
"I don’t understand the reaction at the end in the ground because I couldn’t be happier with what the guys did.
“Everyone’s entitled to their opinion. I completely disagree. I can only say I am really proud of my team, proud of the players, how they played against a tough opponent, created chances. You’ve got Tariq Lamptey, Jakob Moder - young players out there doing their best. Robert Sanchez in goal - a young player doing his best. Marc Cucurella I thought was fantastic, Leo Trossard - fantastic.
"But maybe I need a history lesson, maybe I need to understand where we’re at, because as far as I can see we’re 8th in the Premier League and the boys are giving everything, so we’ll carry on.”
Listen here:
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Shocking..? Man up...
Also - he didnt spend that money.
He hasn’t spit his dummy or ‘taken on the fans’…….he’s simply sent a message (in the heat of the moment after what would have been a frustrating end to the game) to the relatively few utter cretins in the crowd who thought booing that performance was a justified response.
Interesting criticism from a man who took Maupay off for Locadia, and man of the match off early.
TB
I assume that many posters on here are being ironic when telling Potter to not be so sensitive.
When they themselves have got all over sensitive about a comment made immediately pre match and that he was directly asked about ….. he didn’t bring up the booing to rant about it, he was asked and so he responded.
Have to agree with him that despite the same frustrations in front of goal we never looked like losing the game and so why people felt the need to actually boo is beyond me.
I’ve never really warmed to him as I have other managers. His job is to win football matches not bore draw us to death.He had a pop at some of the fans who booed, perfectly reasonable imo, although he might regret doing so this morning.
I suspect that Potter is right with his history comment. Problem is that it gets taken on board by all fans, and those booing don’t give a damn. I can’t believe that those booing have been on the journey we have made over the past decades and have a clue about football - I don’t think I can remember us outplaying a team as convincingly as we did yesterday. Yes, disappointing not to get three points but we didn’t concede. Leeds fans must have thought it was Christmas getting away with a point and who can blame them having a sing song about it.
8th in the best league in the world - blimey!
I’ve never really warmed to him as I have other managers. His job is to win football matches not bore draw us to death.
Didn’t he have a toys out of the pram about us fans, circa Feb 2020?
It's not out of character tbf, he's got previous for being a bit shirty about our support.