The gaffer was asked after the weekends game if he was enjoying his job, given the big turnaround in fortunes from last seasons dismal showing.
“Enjoying it? That is a hard one. It is just life-absorbing. I don’t think anyone, unless you have done it, can appreciate it. I have just seen that Arsene Wenger has done 22 years and I think, ‘Oh my’. Now all the people who supposedly didn’t like him or didn’t get on with him, Mourinho, Ferguson and all that malarkey, it is all just like fluff, isn’t it?"
“Deep down, and they have all come out and said it , they have huge respect for him because they know what he has to go through."
“I want to enjoy the job. I could enjoy the moment of clinching a play-off place on Saturda for three hours, when I was higher than I ever was as a player without a shadow of doubt. But then the following morning I was watching back the Bristol Rovers game.”
This season is a marked improvement on last, albeit in a league lower the Millers were still favorites with some to make it a back to back relegation, so Warney is thankful for the faith shown in him; “You can’t turn anything around overnight, Even Pep Guardiola in his first year, the City fans didn’t want him. I am not saying I am Pep Guardiola. But I am just saying it does take time for your changes to come to fruition and at the moment, fortunately for us, we are winning games so it all looks rosy.”
"I was looking at my heart rate when I worked out what I was going to say to the team (last Saturday), My resting heart rate is about 46 beats, but when I was orking out what I was going to say I was looking at my watch and it was 102. I was thinking, ‘102 just from the thought of what I am going to say to the lads?’ So it definitely does have its effect emotionally on you."
“In fairness, out of 24 teams there are only six managers who can feel like this. There are 17 clubs in this division who have changed their manager at least once this season. It is just lunacy isn’t it? That is why it is difficult to enjoy.”