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I'd be very surprised if Alex Neil was taking tomorrow's game for granted.
Everything you hear from him and those who work with him tells us how meticulous his planning is for each and every game.
In my opinion it's his greatest strength as a football manager.
 
Going to lose my mind on this one. My 14 hour flight to Abu Dhabi departs at 12pm (GMT). Going to have to wait until I land to find out the score 😕
 
JK said:
If you listen to the interview and put it in context he talks quite a lot about Saturday’s game.

Talks about how it’s a “vital” match and reflects that if we can win it makes the following week massive.

Alex Neil does not strike me as the sort of bloke to not realise that next week is only vital if we get a win tomorrow.
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baldnobber said:
I'd be very surprised if Alex Neil was taking tomorrow's game for granted.
Everything you hear from him and those who work with him tells us how meticulous his planning is for each and every game.
In my opinion it's his greatest strength as a football manager.
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I'm sure he's not taking the game for granted... consciously. And all being well, I'm reading to much into it.

And of course he'll be putting a lot of focus on the game. He'll say all the right things in the rest of his interview. Pulis did just the same before our match... you can sound non-complacent for 90% of your interview and give away a lot in the other 10%!

Anyway... enough of that! COYW.

Is there a good away pub anyone knows of?
 
Regardless said:
I'm sure he's not taking the game for granted... consciously. And all being well, I'm reading to much into it.

And of course he'll be putting a lot of focus on the game. He'll say all the right things in the rest of his interview. Pulis did just the same before our match... you can sound non-complacent for 90% of your interview and give away a lot in the other 10%!

Anyway... enough of that! COYW.

Is there a good away pub anyone knows of?
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Greyfriars, Nags Head have been mentioned elsewhere or normally a bunch in the Three Guineas too at the station.

Need some breakfast first....
 
Mancunian White said:
Going to lose my mind on this one. My 14 hour flight to Abu Dhabi departs at 12pm (GMT). Going to have to wait until I land to find out the score 😕
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You are obviously not going a great circle route for it to take 14 hours!
Suggest that you have a word with the pilot as I am sure that there are quicker routes, and if you get him to use Google maps ask him for regular match updates.
 
Waddie said:
You are obviously not going a great circle route for it to take 14 hours!
Suggest that you have a word with the pilot as I am sure that there are quicker routes, and if you get him to use Google maps ask him for regular match updates.
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I'm departing from Brisbane mate 😉
 
JK said:
If you listen to the interview and put it in context he talks quite a lot about Saturday’s game.

Talks about how it’s a “vital” match and reflects that if we can win it makes the following week massive.

Alex Neil does not strike me as the sort of bloke to not realise that next week is only vital if we get a win tomorrow.
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Agree. Also doesn’t strike me as the kind of bloke not to fully prepare his team both with knowledge of importance of the game, but also his clear “game plan” of how he sees the way to win the game. Hope today goes to (his) plan A, the game is enjoyable for those lucky enough to be there, and the journey back is triumphant.
 
Regardless said:
Must say that I didn't like the pre-match interview of Alex Neil in the LEP. It's all about getting this game out of the way, and then we have the massive week against Blades, Leeds & WBA. So much focus on next week.

I love it when opposition managers talk like this. Tony Pulis was the same before they played us... all about 'let's not be complacent' with this home match against Preston... (which signalled to his team that it must be a relatively easy game - "but try to be careful lads").
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Forgive me for this - but I couldn't help but pick up on something Alan Browne said in yesterday's LEP.... he was looking back on the Reading defeat. It resonates EXACTLY with what I was saying AHEAD of the Reading defeat!

Browne said “A lot has been made of the three games this week, and people looking at that before we played Reading was maybe where the problems started. "
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Link to LEP article
 
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