Wednesday, November 01, 2006

I'm pleased I missed this one Roy!

Dear Coxhoe Branch,
It's disappointing, the goals we gave away, our passing, our tackling, our movement - everything really. There's a long way to go.
I can't explain Chopra's goals. I've said a few things to the players, but they need to say it to each other.
Players need to get a hold of each other sometimes, not be pals with each other. I've played with lads for five years and I've never spoken to them, but I was glad they were on my team.
Players can go out for a meal with each other five nights a week, but real team-mate have a go at each other.
I've been here and lost four, and they lost four or five before I took the job. That's eight defeats this season and we're still in October, that's not acceptable, some teams go through a season and lose only two.
Even on your bad nights, you try to get something out of the game, you've got to have that pride in your performance.
I've just met Charlie Hurley who was a top player at this football club. I had a chat with him after the game, he spoke more sense that anyone I've met in a long time.
We did mention Chopra before the game. I don't mind teams opening us up but the goals were poor.
The two teams we've played against in terms of teams near the top are Cardiff and Preston and the table doesn't lie, they're there on merit.
Cardiff had two centre-halves who are aggressive defenders, they seemed to have a bit of pride in their defending and their goalscorer was intelligent, he makes good runs which I've seen many times before.
It was just a very, very bad night, no plusses whatsoever.
We lost it everywhere, I'm not sure any of our players won their one-v-one battles.
What do you do? Feel sorry for yourself? We'll look to kick on and get ready for Saturday. The least I expect is a reaction against Norwich, I expect a reaction tomorrow.
All the best,
Roy Keane
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