great interview by Pardew

[Turkish]

this guy talks so much sense, no bulls*it. Also pleasing to hear him thank the fans for their support today always like a manager who acknowledges the fans.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/8952711.stm

[Badger]

Indeed I agee

[Professor]

Are you sure you were listening to the same interview as on the Solent link? Apart from the thanks to the travelling fans, which was appropriate, he simply answered the questions put to him. Very much a run-of-the mill, interviewer led session, whereas from the thread title I was expecting something exceptional. It was a bit worrying that Pardew couldn't actually remember which team Saints played and dropped 2 points to at home last week (Orient). Very surprised that the result was not more impressed on his memory. I was glad he responded to the question about Aaron Martin by confirming that the CB position is now Martin's for the time being. Pardew did say its up to Jaidi to earn the shirt back, but if it's true that the position is now Martin's its hard to see what Jaidi can do to get it back except wait to see if Martin makes any mistakes.

[Faz]

Are you sure you were listening to the same interview as on the Solent link? Apart from the thanks to the travelling fans, which was appropriate, he simply answered the questions put to him. Very much a run-of-the mill, interviewer led session, whereas from the thread title I was expecting something exceptional. It was a bit worrying that Pardew couldn't actually remember which team Saints played and dropped 2 points to at home last week (Orient). Very surprised that the result was not more impressed on his memory. I was glad he responded to the question about Aaron Martin by confirming that the CB position is now Martin's for the time being. Pardew did say its up to Jaidi to earn the shirt back, but if it's true that the position is now Martin's its hard to see what Jaidi can do to get it back except wait to see if Martin makes any mistakes.

 

Doyou think he picks the team on the basis of the 90 minutes performance, or takes the weeks training sessions into account?

[Professor]

Doyou think he picks the team on the basis of the 90 minutes performance, or takes the weeks training sessions into account?

Interesting that Faz, because when I was acting as coach for an amateur side I always found it hard to drop a player who was playing well on Saturdays, even if others were looking good in training. True it was just one training night a week and a totally different level of football.

Martin and Fonte will both make mistakes in games but performance does have to be judged over 90 minutes under real pressure and my feeling is that Martin will keep the place if he does well enough in the league matches, because training sessions really aren't at the same level of commitment.

[modern matron]

Slightly premature I think. Defensively we've played 5 league and cup games and conceded 3 goals. Hardly a major concern. Jaidi is just as likely to return for the next 2 games. I suspect his fitness is more of an issue. Don't forget Seaborne - AP also rates him.

[Deppo]

Slightly premature I think. Defensively we've played 5 league and cup games and conceded 3 goals. Hardly a major concern. Jaidi is just as likely to return for the next 2 games. I suspect his fitness is more of an issue. Don't forget Seaborne - AP also rates him.

 

Nutshell.

[dubai_phil]

Slightly premature I think. Defensively we've played 5 league and cup games and conceded 3 goals. Hardly a major concern. Jaidi is just as likely to return for the next 2 games. I suspect his fitness is more of an issue. Don't forget Seaborne - AP also rates him.

 

Think you missed off a coupple of other points

 

Pace, Distribution & (according to reports) concentration.

 

Expect there will be games where we need the brick and some where we need the yoof

[ottery st mary]

Squad, Tactics, Opposition, Opposition Grounds (Exeter will flood their pitch again) Variety, Injuries, Loss of Form, Personal issues,Wags, Weather, Pards enemies in the stand and This Forum and our resident experts.....You know who you are... etc etc...

 

So much more for poor old Pards to think about ..How does he cope.....

 

Thank goodness he has derry and the Prof as support team.

 

WIFM

[hypochondriac]

Come on ottery we get it!

[hypochondriac]

Much better interview than in recent weeks.

[Deppo]

My ratings for the interview:

 

Pardew: 8

[Turkish]

Are you sure you were listening to the same interview as on the Solent link? Apart from the thanks to the travelling fans, which was appropriate, he simply answered the questions put to him. Very much a run-of-the mill, interviewer led session, whereas from the thread title I was expecting something exceptional. It was a bit worrying that Pardew couldn't actually remember which team Saints played and dropped 2 points to at home last week (Orient). Very surprised that the result was not more impressed on his memory. I was glad he responded to the question about Aaron Martin by confirming that the CB position is now Martin's for the time being. Pardew did say its up to Jaidi to earn the shirt back, but if it's true that the position is now Martin's its hard to see what Jaidi can do to get it back except wait to see if Martin makes any mistakes.

 

Why does it matter if he momentarily forgot the name of the team of our 2nd last game? He said that we were poor at set plays and we were. Praised the players that deserved to be praised and told those that didn't play what them need to do. For me he just talks a lot of sense, breath of fresh air to the bullsh*t we got from some of our previous managers.

[NickG]

and he can't really legislate for a game like Orient - Steve Claridge (hardly biased saints man) said on tv last night that having watched the orient game it could easily have had the same result as yesterday.

 

Compare a skates view to that of some fans on here who thought the orient game showed Pardew to be poor manager, players not up to the job etc.

 

Interesting.

[westofshannonsaint]

... It was a bit worrying that Pardew couldn't actually remember which team Saints played and dropped 2 points to at home last week (Orient). Very surprised that the result was not more impressed on his memory....

 

do you think we should constantly remind ourselves that "we couldn't even beat Orient at home" or should we think "poor performance/result, forget about it, lets concentrate about winning the next game", which do you think breeds the winning mentality?

[bender]

We should have got at least a point v Plymouth. Should have won against LO hitting the woodwork twice and loads of chances missed despite a poor performance by our standards. Soon a lot of teams in this league will start to suffer from having small squads and having put too much into their opening games (eg Bournemouth). It wont be long before we wont even get excited about winning coz we'll just get too used to it. The futures red and white.

[Professor]

do you think we should constantly remind ourselves that "we couldn't even beat Orient at home" or should we think "poor performance/result, forget about it, lets concentrate about winning the next game", which do you think breeds the winning mentality?

Getting only one point from the first two home games was not good enough, and even the rose tinted glasses that a few people seem to use all the time wouldn't change that fact. It certainly had been worrying Pardew, because he said as much in the interview, that if the side had not won at Bristol Rovers the team would have been under considerable pressure. The manager can't afford to forget about previous perfomances because they provide the information he needs to try to get the best possible performance in the next game.

 

Its all very well for loyalist fans to make excuses when opposition teams score, or when our team can't produce enough chances, or when players fail to take chances that they should. Thats what fans do, and there are plenty of examples in the posts on here, but managers have to be more professional than that and Pardew was. He obviously is doing just that, because that also came across in what he said, but was it a 'great interview'? No, it was largely reactive, and when the answer to 'who did your side play last week Alan?' was, 'Sorry, I can't remember' ( I paraphrase), whilst that wasn't too big a deal, it was a surprise that he couldn't remember. I suggest that Alec Ferguson could tell you who his side have played.

Edited 29 August, 2010 by Professor

[Turkish]

Getting only one point from the first two home games was not good enough, and even the rose tinted glasses that a few people seem to use all the time wouldn't change that fact. It certainly had been worrying Pardew, because he said as much in the interview, that if the side had not won at Bristol Rovers the team would have been under considerable pressure. The manager can't afford to forget about previous perfomances because they provide the information he needs to try to get the best possible performance in the next game.

 

Its all very well for loyalist fans to make excuses when opposition teams score, or when our team can't produce enough chances, or when players fail to take chances that they should. Thats what fans do, and there are plenty of examples in the posts on here, but managers have to be more professional than that and Pardew was. He obviously is doing just that, because that also came across in what he said, but was it a 'great interview'? No, it was largely reactive, and when the answer to 'who did your side play last week Alan?' was, 'Sorry, I can't remember' ( I paraphrase), whilst that wasn't too big a deal, it was a surprise that he couldn't remember. I suggest that Alec Ferguson could tell you who his side have played.

 

Listen to it again, he wasn't asked who we played, he said he was pleased because we got a goal from set plays which we were poor at against "who was it Orient? i cant remember" you really are being totally nit picky about it. I notice that rather than prasing Pardew for obviously identifying an area of weakness in our previous matches and working on it, you are more concearned with the fact that he temporarily couldn't remember who our 2nd last game was against. Pathetic. IMO it was a very good interview, to the point, no bulls*it, praised the right players and told the others what they needed to do and indentified weaknesses from our previous performances. Your banging on about one point from two home games, no not ideal but cant change it and on another day the scores could have been very different. I suggest Man United and Chelsea will both have a two or three game winless run too.

Edited 29 August, 2010 by Turkish

[ottery st mary]

Getting only one point from the first two home games was not good enough, and even the rose tinted glasses that a few people seem to use all the time wouldn't change that fact. It certainly had been worrying Pardew, because he said as much in the interview, that if the side had not won at Bristol Rovers the team would have been under considerable pressure. The manager can't afford to forget about previous perfomances because they provide the information he needs to try to get the best possible performance in the next game.

 

Its all very well for loyalist fans to make excuses when opposition teams score, or when our team can't produce enough chances, or when players fail to take chances that they should. Thats what fans do, and there are plenty of examples in the posts on here, but managers have to be more professional than that and Pardew was. He obviously is doing just that, because that also came across in what he said, but was it a 'great interview'? No, it was largely reactive, and when the answer to 'who did your side play last week Alan?' was, 'Sorry, I can't remember' ( I paraphrase), whilst that wasn't too big a deal, it was a surprise that he couldn't remember. I suggest that Alec Ferguson could tell you who his side have played.

 

Prof

 

Have a word with Sir Alan about his breathing between sentences....FFS

 

Luv your cabaret act by the way...

 

WIFM

 

WIFM

[david in sweden]

Slightly premature I think. Defensively we've played 5 league and cup games and conceded 3 goals. Hardly a major concern. Jaidi is just as likely to return for the next 2 games. I suspect his fitness is more of an issue. Don't forget Seaborne - AP also rates him.

 

Jaidi has bags of experience and we need that at the back in certain situations. At his age, though still good he'll have to be "super fit" to get Martin out. But it is nice to have someone like him on the bench..if there were a serious injury then we don't have to depend on a unproven Reserve defender to come in. The one thing we need this season is a lot of strength in depth, and I think we are almost there.