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As there's very little happening this weekend for the Millers, have a look at this YouTube link to a programme called Sheffield Live in which Paul Warne is interviewed for 45 minutes. It's a good listen and he comes across as a very competent and intelligent individual. There are many of his predecessors who wouldn't have carried off the interview so consummately!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBw7owHb2sA

 



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Terrible Saturday today, no Millers. No NH horseracing. Like summer apart from the weather!

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I enjoyed the comparison with Pep Guardiola. When will people stop saying Paul Warne looks like Pep and start saying Pep looks like Paul Warne?

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Enjoyed that - thanks for picking that out Glenn

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I'm not knocking Warney, he's doing good. Why I don't totally get him is the same as Pep but for different reasons. Pep along with Jose & Clipperty are shopping a Harrods. Pep isn't likeable at all, a surely man lacking any charisma. Along with Jose & Clipperty they are so far up themselves it's so obnoxious, vain. Pound for Pound the Spurs manager is way ahead & he plays home players.

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That interview is a good insight into Paul Warne the man. I think it reinforces what we already knew. He is a very likeable and honest man, probably a lot more intelligent than he would initially come across as, and has some pretty strong ideas about building on fundamentals. Broadly speaking he wants an athletic, fit, young group of players who are going to buy into what RUFC is all about.

Of course you need some quality in there, but that doesn't have to be at the expense of the team ethic. You can get hard work from anyone but players who have it and also want to work hard are harder to find, and are expensive.

Getting back to Pep, what he is able to do is get world class talent to also work extremely hard. There is no trade off between the two at Man City, unlike at Arsenal for example where they have and have had their prima donnas. That is what sets City apart, and there are lessons from that approach that all clubs can learn from even if we are in a different league in many ways.

I will definitely get behind what Warne is trying to do. We have (as he puts it) our identity back which must be a good place to start. I think he is a credit to the club with the way he conducts himself on and off the pitch and whether we win lose or draw. He did't over-react when we had a bad run and he isn't getting carried away while we are on a good run. He is doing a terrific job.







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I mentioned a couple of years ago we lost our identity, we don't know who we are or what we stand for anymore. I'm glad but not surprised to see Warney alude to getting that connection back, by developing that 'sense of Rotherham United' again.

We saw Steve Evans on many of these things, and I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking as a showcase to our club I know who I'd rather have!

There's a lot to be said about his mannerisms, he came across quietly confident in his own abilities, even though he may say otherwise, but also recognising his own short comings. He is an intelligent coach who is as Rotherham United as RM was and I think we're lucky to have him. This is not a love in by any means, I'm not daft enough that if he thinks he's taken us as far as he can, and Norwich or whoever came knocking he'd be off like a shot. Just good to see Warney do well, he's been a brilliant ambassador for this football club and he deserves some success and hopefully good things on his CV!

If anybody has any questions ever over Warney's wanting to do well for this club only need think of Northampton away, don't need to say anymore than that!

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PW is proving me wrong.  As for Pep, several people who have worked with him would disagree with T71.  He has also improved most of the squad at City and even experienced pros have stated he was able to give them a new appreciation of what they ought to be doing on the pitch.



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Ridgeway Kid !!!!!! A welcome return

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Thanks, Calypso.  I took the hump with Andy when he posted yawn emoticons on a couple of my OT posts.  Forgot my password and tried to get back on a few times but the link didn't work.  Finally spotted Exeter's reference to PCPoorly and Chris had me up and running in a jiffee!  It would be nice if Andy came back as he was a good laugh (usually).  There's a few others gone missing too.  Sickly shocked me by turning up on MM.



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We are doing OK under PW - BUT.

The game v Donni was defencively naive and the rest - let's say - average.

We need quality in that team because most championship sides would have walked all over us - all over the pitch.

My problem : I want us to get better - stronger - to be capable of holding our own in the championship. I can't get euphoric over beating rubbish in a rubbish league.

Sadly - I think that is what Warnsey means by our DNA. A lot of fans are satisfied in victories like Donni - which - don't get me wrong was a great result sending a full house home happy but "Quality" was absent in every department.

You can watch good games on Sunday morning with 100% commitment from both sides and there are teams that are regularly beating others that - like Warnsey's teams are fitter and get on as a group....but what level do you want to watch football.

Quality costs - either in bringing players in and / or player development well - at the moment we only have the embryo of what's needed and sadly I don't think Warnsey in up to developing anyone or the management of higher profile players.

You need someone who has played at the highest level and has managerial experience of top players.

I enjoyed the atmosphere at NYS at the finale and the fans went home happy BUT was there enough quality for the next level - I think not. Not yet anyway.



-- Edited by Bornamiller on Monday 5th of March 2018 12:21:11 PM



-- Edited by Bornamiller on Monday 5th of March 2018 12:24:56 PM

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I think League 1 is our level.  Occasional (and probably short-lived) forays into the Championship are an aspiration but you can't expect the club to pay the fees and wages of a team of players that are Championship quality.  Financially it's not on.  Bornamiller and T71 have similar views and expectations but they are not realistic in my opinion.



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If we went up would mean a massive rebuilding job. Ajayi, Vaulks possibly Mattock, Newell & Palmer good enough out of our own players who could play in the championship. But stop in league 1 we could lose Vaulks & have no chance of keeping Towell. Dammed if we do, dammed if we don't. Me if we can go up take the chance.

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If clubs like Sunderland and Birmingham and even The Massive find it hard to stay in the Championship clubs like Burton, us and Barnsley have got a hell of a job on. Punching above your weight is one thing, but doing it year after year after year is another. We would have to transform all that the club is to get much bigger crowds and/or a much bigger budget to give us even a chance to consolidate up there.

I agree with your general point Kid. Why do you think Tony Stewart doesn't see it that way though? Or at least why does he publicly say that he thinks we can be up there consistently?

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smiler wrote:

If clubs like Sunderland and Birmingham and even The Massive find it hard to stay in the Championship clubs like Burton, us and Barnsley have got a hell of a job on. Punching above your weight is one thing, but doing it year after year after year is another. We would have to transform all that the club is to get much bigger crowds and/or a much bigger budget to give us even a chance to consolidate up there.

I agree with your general point Kid. Why do you think Tony Stewart doesn't see it that way though? Or at least why does he publicly say that he thinks we can be up there consistently?

 I think he just got carried away.  I doubt very much that he thinks that way now.  I think 15000 home crowds are an absolute minimum for the Championship.



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I admit it I'm a gambler. When I select a horse I study everything. Same with our side. Tell you why we won't go up. Up front we aren't good enough. Anything happens to Smith we've blown it. We get shut of Johno & what we left with. When it comes to the play-offs see if I'm right.

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Kinda agree Ridgeway - and TS has proven himself as a brilliant sales / marketing man because he market tested the championship and took an executive decision to be a bigger fish in league one instead of a minnow in the championship. We'll done TS. But - I bought into the 3 year plan - but with the academy at the root of our future in the promised land.

That could still be on and TS has chosen another route.....but for me - we're back to square one and we've missed a trick.

Pushing the panick button on 3 year projects will end in failure every time....Having said that...a good manager ( TS ) sees all the data and manages accordingly. I suppose my gripe was / is we are no further along and with a management team not qualified to satisfy the long term needs of what I would like see RUFC do in the next 3 years.

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So....what can we as fans do....?

One thing we need to do is drag out the old / past fans that might push TS to rethink the numbers and get that season ticket sales number higher. Can't fault the Millers for holding prices - the monthly payment scheme and providing a superb ground.

And again....giving TS the benefit of the doubt regarding business planning - games like the Donni game - sending full houses home buzzing - is a step in the right direction to attract the typical Rotherham fan - with is it - "Muck & nettles" football.

OK....can live with that....so far so good with plan "B" .

But the future still has the same realities!

We are no further on with our academy and we will not be able to play PW expansive football if we go up. He tried that already by stupidly taking teams on who were stronger in every department and crashed and burned.

I don't buy into the championship was impossible for us....we just had to play survival football and give the manager enough time to organise this very technical side of the game.

You see - that's where the plan falls down because Rotherham fans don't want to see "Technical Football".....they want the Donni match.

So without "educating" - or at least selling the idea of "survival football" to the fans - as a means to an end....then the average Rotherham fan will not understand / buy into the theory of getting into the championship and grinding out points....they'll reject it - as they did last season.

That is our future if we have any ambition at all.

Unless we stay in league one and play "Muck & Nettles" football to suit the Rotherham DNA.

No problems there then...lol

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