00:00 Some of the old failings that have been put to bed for the last few weeks really re-emerged today?
00:06 Yeah, you can't get away from that Stu. Generally overall, it sums us up really.
00:16 At our maximum, whether individually or team, we're okay.
00:22 I thought the first 35 minutes we should be 3-0 up.
00:26 Three glorious chances. What does that do to affect the team?
00:31 What does that do to Burnley?
00:35 We understand, and listen, everybody plays a different way,
00:39 and understand how Burnley, it's risk and reward, and it opens up and they have that extra man for the goalkeeper that steps in.
00:45 So we knew that they'd have possession of the ball, but games aren't decided on possession of the ball.
00:51 But when we have them opportunities to score, we have to score. We have to score, because this is the Premier League.
00:57 You can't afford not to. So for three big chances for 35 minutes.
01:02 I suppose even when you're coming in at half-time at 0-0, you go, listen, shape's good, everything's good.
01:10 Defending the way that you've defended for 35 minutes, they really opened us up.
01:18 Coming in, you'll create opportunities going forward.
01:22 And I'm coming in and saying a different thing, because the two goals epitomise where we have been.
01:29 Individual errors, one mistake, two mistakes, nobody goes one mistake, pulls somebody out with a rectifying situation,
01:40 or does something to stop that.
01:44 First goal, deflection. Second goal, obviously, a mix-up, and then we come in at half-time.
01:49 And I imagine Vinny's going out of the alleyway 2-0 up here, and I'm going out of the alleyway 2-0 down there.
01:56 Second goal, next goal, is a big goal for both teams.
02:01 We came flying out the traps, we get ourselves back into it, we basically should go 2-2, 3-2.
02:08 We don't, and then yet again, counter-attack, poor bit of defending, one mistake, two mistakes, three mistakes, goal.
02:16 Pinning the balloon of everybody around the place, which I totally understand.
02:20 And then, yet again, from a leadership point of view, nobody dragging themselves in to say,
02:26 'Right, it's 3-1, but we have to reset and go again like we did at half-time.'
02:30 There's still half an hour, but the fourth goes in and it's game, set and match, and it's pretty comfortable
02:36 last 20 minutes for Burnley and Vinny.
02:39 And I guess the timings of the goals as well. The second one straight in the back of the first,
02:43 and then the third one on the back of Gussies as well. It seems a real problem for this team to just...
02:48 Yeah, it is. When we're not right, we're nearly there.
02:56 At times we get there, but the majority of times we're nearly there.
03:02 We can't expect to be 35-15 minutes, no applause or well done for the last 15-20 minutes.
03:19 The game was done, they'd done enough to win the game, but I look round when the temperature goes up a little bit.
03:28 I look round on that pitch and there aren't really many that are really stepping forward in those big moments
03:36 to drag their team through it.
03:40 So that is something obviously that every team has and every team needs.
03:49 When you go through those moments, when you're suffering, you need to stick together.
03:56 But all of a sudden, like I said, we implode and we go quickly, 1-2 and 3-4.
04:02 And that just kills us and doesn't give us a chance.
04:06 Did it take you by surprise? Obviously we've seen it quite a lot earlier this year, but since the Arsenal game
04:11 there seemed to be a bit more solidity, a bit more of that leadership around this game.
04:15 Yeah, from a tactical point of view, the shape allowed us to sit in and play the way we did
04:22 and to create those three big chances and even the first 15 minutes of the second half.
04:30 It's difficult because when they get the tails up, they all want the ball and get on it.
04:34 When something goes the other way, I suppose the biggest thing is the key to that
04:40 and the answer to that is don't make mistakes that get punished, which we do.
04:45 The deflection in the first one, is there a big save in there?
04:50 The second one, the third one and the fourth one, we'll look at that from our point of view
04:54 as some really poor goals in a season and a catalogue of really poor goals.
05:02 A bit of a stick for individual players as well, what did you make of that?
05:07 You've got to get on with it. I didn't see anybody have a go at Jadon Bogo.
05:11 I didn't see anybody have a go at Oli Arblaster.
05:15 So, obviously you've been here before, how do you lift them from here?
05:21 Do you put the onus on them? It's up to you to lift yourselves.
05:25 Well, we'll help them and we'll prepare. We'll be in it early and we'll leave late
05:30 and we'll give them the information and the tactical stuff that we did today.
05:38 I still don't think, listen, I'll maybe look at the Arsenal game and go,
05:44 should we have gone with a four, but we went with a four against Liverpool and did OK.
05:48 We opened ourselves up against them.
05:51 There'll always be a huge reflection from a tactical point of view and a coaching point of view
05:56 and a management point of view on how we set up.
06:00 I'm not trying to deflate, but that game wasn't decided from a tactical point of view.
06:06 It's decided basically what happened in both boxes and obviously what happened
06:10 when they smoked blood and were big enough and strong enough to deal with it.
06:16 When we were under the pump, we went under and wanted to get out of the place.
06:23 That can't be the case from the players' point of view.
06:27 They can't just want the whistle to go.
06:30 I won't name names, but I think there were a few players out there
06:37 that wanted to get out of there pretty quickly after the fourth went in,
06:43 which you can't have. You just can't have.
06:46 We can't have. I can't have. I can't accept it.
06:49 It's a difficult situation because of the lack of players that we've got in.
06:54 You can't really do anything about it from that point of view.
06:57 I think there were a few that wanted to get out of there pretty quickly,
07:01 and that can't happen. It's a powerful league.
07:03 It's been too powerful for us all season.
07:06 We've shown glimpses. We've shown bits and pieces.
07:09 We've shown, like you said, 15 minutes just after half-time.
07:13 30, 35 minutes first half.
07:18 We've done that for quite a lot of the games that I've been here as well.
07:25 Away at Bournemouth, Villa, away home to Luton, West Ham, Fulham,
07:35 even Liverpool. We've shown moments, but moments and nearly and not enough.
07:42 The division is too powerful for us individually and collectively as a group.
07:49 In the longer term then, in terms of the summer,
07:53 do you just have to clear out all of these characters?
07:56 Is that feasible, so many?
07:58 Yes, we'll try. I have to make some big decisions.
08:03 There'll be players that we have to make decisions on.
08:10 There'll be out-of-contract players.
08:12 I think everybody realises that there's always a need for a rebuild.
08:16 I think it's been a real difficult season.
08:18 I totally understand that, understanding the timings of stuff as well at the start
08:23 and how difficult that was. It wasn't ideal for anybody, management or even higher than management.
08:31 It's been difficult. There won't be personal decisions.
08:40 It won't be about personalities.
08:42 It'll be about what's best for this brilliant football club
08:45 that at the moment is going through some pain.
08:48 We all are, but as I keep saying, and it's quite difficult for me to say this,
08:54 there will be better times and I will, with the help of the coaches and everybody
09:02 that we need to lean on to make us go again, which we will do.
09:09 I think we all realise that unless that red line comes and we're under it,
09:14 but I think we all understand the situation.
09:16 I'm not being defeatist, I'm just being a realist that the season really is gone.
09:24 We still have to. We have an obligation to our supporters.
09:29 We have an obligation to the league and to be as competitive as we possibly can.
09:34 So we'll look at that as well, but we'll get it right
09:39 and we'll have people that want to be here, we'll have people that want to run around
09:44 and want to be involved when the going gets tough
09:47 and want to be part of it when we're going well.
09:51 So that's what a proper footballer looks like and a proper team looks like.
09:59 So we have to understand that.
10:03 In the meantime, we have to do our best to make this as painless as possible
10:10 because at the moment it is pain going through every part of the football club,
10:20 most importantly the supporters.
10:22 How difficult is that when that's the most you can strive for in the next five games,
10:27 to just make it as painless as possible?
10:29 Well, we have to give our best. We can't turn it in.
10:34 We certainly won't and the supporters won't.
10:38 It isn't them and us, we have to take responsibility for everything as well.
10:45 So I have to put players on the pitch that I believe are going to absolutely go for it
10:49 and leave everything out there.
10:51 So that's my decision.
10:54 As you can imagine, it's been pretty difficult this season
10:57 with the selection issue and the availability issue.
11:00 You yearn for an Egan, you yearn for a Robinson in those situations.
11:09 You yearn for a couple of those other players that have not been available
11:14 but they're not so we have to.
11:17 And people will come through it, like I just said.
11:19 Bogle will come through it and be a better player.
11:22 Blaster will come through it through the experience.
11:25 But like I said, going back to the decision,
11:28 the decisions you make, I've got absolutely no issue
11:32 in making decisions that are right for this football club.
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