00:00Pre-season defeat against Cope, obviously pre-season the main thing is building up
00:05minutes and fitness and partnerships and all that so where do you sort of set your arse on that front of you?
00:14I'll be completely honest, I thought the group we put together was technically better than they've ever had at this stage of the season.
00:21But the cohesion and the willingness to work and that is not quite there.
00:25So there's something missing.
00:27I don't know, I think I know what it is but I can't fix it from my side.
00:34It's got to be done from their side.
00:37Listen, we've got to be willing to try and put it right, willing to accept responsibility and then move on.
00:48I've been in this game long enough to have some serious low points and some really good high points.
00:54And what we can't do is get too carried away at this stage of the season, because it's not in the season yet, and get too low.
01:01Because then you will go into the game in two weeks' time or a week and ask time and you'll be in all sorts of bother.
01:07So I think it's got to come from within, it's got to come from me, it's got to come from them as well.
01:12I think we've just got some things that we've got to change, a few fundamentals and then have a reassessment of where we're at.
01:18And if the group's not good enough then we have to have another reshuffle.
01:21Obviously a couple more friendlies still against in Marine and Redding since before the league starts against Fleet.
01:26So presumably you're going to be using those obviously to work on those things that we've just discussed with them in there and correct things as you say.
01:33Look, you come out and you try and work on things anyway, that's what you're constantly doing.
01:37Even in the season you're still trying to make things happen.
01:40When you think you're settled you always want to improve, but at the minute we're just not doing the basics well.
01:46And when you don't do the basics for an hour and teams are hungry and willing to just hunt you down, they'll put pressure on you.
01:53And then what seems to me is we have most of our mistakes punished and then the mistakes that are against us we don't seem to punish for the clinical enough.
02:02But listen, does that come down to being ruthless with the other team?
02:07Is it just we're in a bit of a rut? I don't know.
02:10It's just, it's difficult to say, to be too negative about it, but we've got to be honest and we've got to say at the minute there's nowhere any good enough.
02:21As I say, it's not competitive football yet, but obviously you want to correct it and get in those good habits now, don't you?
02:27Before obviously the big stuff kicks off against the fleet in 10 days time.
02:30Yeah, and listen, you say it's not competitive and we've literally taken it, literally, literally, we could not be making it any more non-competitive right now.
02:38So, listen, let's hope that there's a change that comes in the next 24, 48 hours.
02:43I'm expecting some feedback from individuals as well, the people that don't know they're not doing what they should be doing.
02:49And then we'll go from there.
02:52So you've got some new faces in this summer, but you've also got core players who've been with you before.
02:56So presumably, obviously, you know, that core that have been here, they obviously know how things work and presumably they can relay the messages.
03:03They know your messages very well as well, don't they, presumably?
03:05Yeah, listen, the things that I've given as messages, it might be no different to any other messages.
03:11I'm not teaching them how to suck eggs in here.
03:14At the end of the day, you've got to be able to do the basic things that require going football,
03:20whether that's step five, step six, Sunday league, under sevens.
03:24There's things I'm asking them to do when I was coaching kids and you drill it into them and do it.
03:30And we're going away from that.
03:32So how basic can we make it?
03:34I don't know. Maybe that's where I'm going on.
03:36Obviously, yeah, ten days to a defeat game.
03:40You're obviously a bit despondent at the moment now, but presumably once that comes around,
03:44sort of thoughts on the season, because you finished last season really strongly,
03:47year before just outside the playoffs.
03:49So, I mean, that sort of proven track record is there, isn't it, over the last couple of years?
03:53Yeah, but the problem for me was we never had the group I thought was good enough at the start.
03:58Before we went into pre-season, I thought I'd put a group good enough to get going.
04:03Now I don't know if we're better off just going on the team.
04:06Right, let's just sack it off till October and we'll see if we can hunt the pack down after that.
04:10But, all joking aside, it's just, it's got to get better.
04:15It's got to be more disciplined. It's got to be more work rate from individuals.
04:20And then, you know, we'll see what happens.
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