OK, you weren't much good at football, as you admit. I wasn't offered a professional contract, but Ronnie had seen me play and thought that "I had something". Three year contract, after a couple of trial games, at Tranmere. The the manager was John King, who had been there for years. The head coach was a guy called Gordon Byron, who had played a million games for Lincoln. He tried to break everyone on their first day, and he almost broke me. Get through the boot camp, and three months later, you realise what it was all about. Of course, you know all this.
TC I haven't got a clue how clubs bring players through. If you as you say which I believe you went through hoping to get a professional contract all I can say is not many get far. I'm just a supporter.
Will be hard work involved but whose the good cop & bad cop? My money's on Barker the bad cop. If you are on about the younger players I'm not up with the set up there.
Neither am I. But it's not the easy work two hours per day, Warney is a *****cat scenario that your fantasy football mind thinks that it is. There are around 4000 professional footballers in England. Do you think that it's easy to become on of the 4000?
The one thing you can say with certainty is that although we might not play well and win every game (only one team in this country wins every week and even they don't always play well) we always get 100% effort. People talk about players playing for the manager, and I don't think there is any doubt that our players play for this manager.
There was a really good interview with Kieran Trippier on Radio 5 earlier this week. It might be available as a podcast for anyone interested. He was talking about his move to Madrid, working for Diego Simeone and the football culture there. How he arrived on day one and had to talk about where he came from in life and his values etc. How they have attention to detail with wellbeing as well as football matters, and how the players would run through a brick wall for him because when push comes to shove as long as the players buy in to the ethos, Simeone has got their backs. He spoke about Sean Dyche at Burnley in similar terms.
Before anybody chimes in with the 'no comparison' comments, I am not suggesting that Warne is one of the top managers in Europe. It did make me think though of the derision that has been thrown at Warne from some quarters and all the nonsense about green tea, mates, good human beings, barbecues etc. All throw away stuff, but when things weren't going so well for us all used as a criticism of Warne's efforts to build something similar.
My take on it is that we have got a manager who might make mistakes and might not yet be a tactical genius, but we have got a manager who understands modern day footballers and knows how to treat them, how to improve them and how to get the best out of them. What we see on matchdays is not a computer game or a newspaper fantasy football league game. It isn't as simple as finding fifteen good footballers based on YouTube footage.
In summary, football management is very difficult and Warne is proving to be very good at it.
Whether we win on Saturday or not, and whether we go up this year or not (there will be bumps along the road), I feel that we are in safe hands and in a good place as a club with lots to look forward to.
The Trippier interview is at
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrsln
Dont know how to create a link here but you can copy and paste if you like.
It's a good interview. Trippier seems to be a well grounded young fella.
You are a bit early for St Valentine's day the Warney luv in is a bit embarrassing. He is a very lucky individual working hard but getting very well paid compared with what a lot of people get around this area.
Back to the transfer window we need proper cover in defence if any of our central defenders are out we have blown it. This current run started when woody trotted onto the pitch against Peterborough at home. Against Ipswich our best player should have got a 2nd nothing wrong with that goal. Come on warney get some proper business done we might just have a chance of going up automatic.
You appear to be struggling to accept the fact that he is doing a very good job. You say that he gets well paid. When he was first appointed your intellectual peers were on their collective soap boxes bleating that the only reason that he got the job was because he was/is the cheap option in terms of wages. Has he bought success? No, which is why you are here at the crack of dawn giving it some "get thi wallet out Tony". Your average 21st century internet age football fan gets bored when their team hasn't signed anyone for 48 hours, and there is an insufficiency of Twitter rumours flying around to keep them interested.
I will try to explain again to you it might be hard work our manager has said he is privileged to have this job no doubt he does work hard. There are people who support this club who work just as hard if not harder when was the last time he worked a night shift. I accept in football terms the money he gets will be poor but in the world I live in he is doing alright. He is not my manager never will be I don't hate him if our great chairman backs him I will leave it at that. See if he can do any business in the next day or so you never know I could change my mind a little.
Has Elon Musk ever done a shift at BSC? I suspect not. Richard Branson? In the 80's I used to frequent Harveys/Adam & Eve on a Saturday night. It was full of steelworkers doing a hard night shift. Have I ever had a job where I could get away with getting paid while I was in a nightclub? No.
TC back when Steelworks were nationalised those that worked in such as furnaces or foundries were allowed a beer break. I wasn't but were I worked I know for a fact foundry workers were.
I don't think that those in Harveys were on a beer break because they all took their boogie shoes to work and got changed before heading into town on the 69 bus.
It was different then especially at Rotherham BSC steelworks. I had a relation work there. Think it was a matter of getting your work out. He told me Friday night night shift they were home very early hours of Saturday morning paid while end of their shift 6 am.
Tc have you ever done any hard work I can remember watching the millers on a night match the going to do a shift on nights. If you have never done it you don't know what you are missing. Heard it all before as the real workers said about the management they talk a good job.
