00:00I know a lot post-match about discipline. We can guess what's happening. You can have an idea.
00:07What are the players saying to you about it?
00:10It needs to improve. It needs to improve.
00:13And it's going to take that responsibility. Does that almost have to come from them when you go back and
00:17look at some of them?
00:18Yeah, my job is to create a culture of accountability.
00:26Where if you make a mistake, it's okay. You hold your hands up and you make sure it doesn't happen
00:29again.
00:30But you have to hold your hands up to the original mistake.
00:32If I make the wrong team selection or I get something wrong, my job is to be accountable.
00:36And it's the same for my players in that moment.
00:38I don't know whether you've seen the other clip of Neto getting his first yellow.
00:42And he goes on and he goes on.
00:44And Rhys James tries to make him away and he carries on and he carries on.
00:47So in that moment, who has to have a word with him?
00:50Who has to say why are you doing that?
00:53Yeah, you need teammates to help you. But it comes down to yourself as well.
00:57Look, Pedro's apologised to the group. We miss him for Wednesday.
01:03I just need to see an improvement in the behaviour now.
01:06And it's not just Pedro. We've had bookings. People speak about dissent.
01:09We've had needless bookings in terms of fouls.
01:13If we are to improve and get to where we want to be, we have to make a conscious step
01:17now to make sure it doesn't happen again.
01:21It won't be the last of the press conference, so it's all good. Absolutely fine.
01:24Because you mentioned dissent. And you look at the players that have got yellow cards for dissent.
01:31And since August 2023, Enzo Fernandes has got 13, the 12 yellows.
01:39He's your vice-captain.
01:40So if your vice-captain is getting booked for dissent all the time,
01:44what message does that send out to the rest of the site?
01:47And do you have to maybe think about him as a vice-captain?
01:51Never. Enzo's a top leader. Top leader. I have not even entered my mind.
01:56Yeah, if you feel there's something that needs to improve.
01:59And yes, we're a young team. It's not an excuse.
02:02We have an outstanding team.
02:04We are one of the youngest in the league, one of the youngest in Europe.
02:07The beautiful thing about having a young team is sometimes you need to go through experiences to improve.
02:13This is a massive learning experience for my group.
02:15I do not want it to be a learning experience where we fail and what we want to achieve.
02:19But these setbacks that we are having, we have to learn from.
02:23Because if we do learn from them, we've proven, even in my short time here,
02:28that we can be an elite team for a long time.
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