Post by leicesterlass on Jul 27, 2006 18:34:34 GMT -1
From FoxFanzine:
As posted by: LeicesterDeano
Was a really good night overall. About 150-200 people there and Rob did his best to answer every question as honestly as possible.
Main points were:
- He had no intention of going anywhere near signing Ryan Smith. Birch earlier mentioned loan players who 'keep their head down'. This would support everyone's theory that he is a bit of a showpony, who hangs around in the wrong crowd.
- Rob seemed to reveal that Maybury and Tiatto will play wide right and left respectively as they make us 'hard to beat'. Maybury has a great understanding with Stearman. He did single out Josh Low for praise though.
- The board will not sell Stearman, although they could do due to the interest already shown in him. He is level-headed and wants to play for the club.
- The centre-mid pairing will probably be one from each of the following two groups - AJ/Weso and Hughes/Williams. It would seem most likely to be AJ and Williams.
- Louis Doods is the most natural finisher at the club and has a bright future ahead of him.
- As for the keepers, he described Rab and Hendo as 'competitive for this division'. And throughout the night he referred to the squad as saying we 'have what we have'. Which may suggest he would like a new keeper but can't afford anything that would improve on the current ones.
I would think that keeper is the only major doubt in his starting line up, which I would predict as follows:
Keeper?
RB - Stearman
CB - MaCarthy
CB - Kenton (until Kisnorbo returns)
LB - Johannsen
RM - Maybury
CM - Johnson
CM - Williams
LM - Tiatto
CF - Hume
CF - Fryatt
RK did make it clear that he knew his starting line up already.
One of the funnier bits was when RK was asked how he prepares the players in the moments leading up to the game. He recalled the home game against Preston last season (1-0 up early on and lost 2-1). In the week, he put together a montage of clips of players being 'aggresive' in matches and put a Kasabian song over it. He quoted that this was a one-off and he was normally quite calm but decdied to try and psyche them up. RK said he wouldn't do it again for fear of them 'taking the f**king roof off!' with MaCarthy saying 'f**king let me at em!'. He didn't want to put too much pressure on Paddy, but said that he could develop into a Walshie character, if he continues to make progress.
Overall, RK seemed like a top, down-to-earth fella, who genuinely wants to do well, whilst knowing the limitations of the team.
Let's hope he can do as he says.
Bring on Luton...
As posted by stevostadium:
I actually raised 2 questions last night. The first, which referred to Maybury and Tiaato playing wide would not penetrate teams ( and consequently got ripped by the Birch for wearing a stripey paul and shark shirt!!) which was covered as detailed in the posts above.
The seccond question asked, was why re-sign Tiatto when the wages could have been freed up to sign Welsh from Sunderland. The question was not read out, but was aware that i had written it, cos when he answered the Maybury question he basically said "we have what we have" and then went on about how much of a good lad Welsh was.
This obviously means that 1) Tiatto signed a very cheap contract and wages would be far less than Welsh's and /or 2) Sunderland would have wanted a fee for Welsh.
Good night out, and was very impressed with RK, he genuinely wants to do well for the club, and I think progress will be made this season, but whether we have the strength in depth to reach the play offs remains to be seen
;D
As posted by: LeicesterDeano
Was a really good night overall. About 150-200 people there and Rob did his best to answer every question as honestly as possible.
Main points were:
- He had no intention of going anywhere near signing Ryan Smith. Birch earlier mentioned loan players who 'keep their head down'. This would support everyone's theory that he is a bit of a showpony, who hangs around in the wrong crowd.
- Rob seemed to reveal that Maybury and Tiatto will play wide right and left respectively as they make us 'hard to beat'. Maybury has a great understanding with Stearman. He did single out Josh Low for praise though.
- The board will not sell Stearman, although they could do due to the interest already shown in him. He is level-headed and wants to play for the club.
- The centre-mid pairing will probably be one from each of the following two groups - AJ/Weso and Hughes/Williams. It would seem most likely to be AJ and Williams.
- Louis Doods is the most natural finisher at the club and has a bright future ahead of him.
- As for the keepers, he described Rab and Hendo as 'competitive for this division'. And throughout the night he referred to the squad as saying we 'have what we have'. Which may suggest he would like a new keeper but can't afford anything that would improve on the current ones.
I would think that keeper is the only major doubt in his starting line up, which I would predict as follows:
Keeper?
RB - Stearman
CB - MaCarthy
CB - Kenton (until Kisnorbo returns)
LB - Johannsen
RM - Maybury
CM - Johnson
CM - Williams
LM - Tiatto
CF - Hume
CF - Fryatt
RK did make it clear that he knew his starting line up already.
One of the funnier bits was when RK was asked how he prepares the players in the moments leading up to the game. He recalled the home game against Preston last season (1-0 up early on and lost 2-1). In the week, he put together a montage of clips of players being 'aggresive' in matches and put a Kasabian song over it. He quoted that this was a one-off and he was normally quite calm but decdied to try and psyche them up. RK said he wouldn't do it again for fear of them 'taking the f**king roof off!' with MaCarthy saying 'f**king let me at em!'. He didn't want to put too much pressure on Paddy, but said that he could develop into a Walshie character, if he continues to make progress.
Overall, RK seemed like a top, down-to-earth fella, who genuinely wants to do well, whilst knowing the limitations of the team.
Let's hope he can do as he says.
Bring on Luton...
As posted by stevostadium:
I actually raised 2 questions last night. The first, which referred to Maybury and Tiaato playing wide would not penetrate teams ( and consequently got ripped by the Birch for wearing a stripey paul and shark shirt!!) which was covered as detailed in the posts above.
The seccond question asked, was why re-sign Tiatto when the wages could have been freed up to sign Welsh from Sunderland. The question was not read out, but was aware that i had written it, cos when he answered the Maybury question he basically said "we have what we have" and then went on about how much of a good lad Welsh was.
This obviously means that 1) Tiatto signed a very cheap contract and wages would be far less than Welsh's and /or 2) Sunderland would have wanted a fee for Welsh.
Good night out, and was very impressed with RK, he genuinely wants to do well for the club, and I think progress will be made this season, but whether we have the strength in depth to reach the play offs remains to be seen
;D
