"I'm sick of saying the same things now, but it's easy to come from behind again. I want men at this football club, and I want winners. It's about time the winners at this football club did something with the ones who don't want to be winners. I can only do so much, it takes the group to separate the weak from the strong. Until we do that, we aren't going to win matches from the start. We need to play how we did in that second-half in the first half and whether they've got 10 men or not it doesn't matter, we battered them."
"We don't do the basics right, I watched them Tuesday, we worked on where we can cause them problems, and then in the first half we completely neglected the basics of the job. It's alright saying what your going to do but you've still got to win the ball, you've got to win headers, you've got to win tackles, you've got to start the game fast, and get the tempo to the way you play and build the game from there. But, we've let a side who have lost four games on the bounce, we've given them a chance, given them a lifeline and they've held on"
"From the moment I walked into this club, I want players to have the ball at thier feet, wether their scared to do it or they don't want it then either way they're not going to be here. When we do pass it and do the right thing we got plenty more crosses in the box. You've got to be brave to win the ball, you've got to be brave to put your head on it in both boxes, in the first half we didnt do it, how many times have I said that this season?"
"You don't lose 10 games by the odd goal by having mentally strong players. Obviously and clearly we've got a group here with some of them mentally tough enough, some of them winners, but they're not affecting the rest and until that happens and until we weed the ones out that arent, then we're always going to be a nearly team, and that's what we are. We can be very good at times but I want us to be very good all the time to be a top team and the fact that we are so close. I don't want be a nearly team, I don't players who are nearly good enough, I want players who are good enough. I want players who are good enough at the moment to affect the ones that aren't, and if we find the ones that aren't good enough then they'll go."
"The problem is the consistancy at the moment, I've said to the players, once you've got possession of the shirt, that's yours! Thats like your home, if somebodys trying to take the shirt of you then thats like somebody breaking into your house, thats your livelyhood, thats your career, thats your contract, your win bonus, your success, medals, bigger contracts and playing at higher levels, somebodys trying to take that away from you. I know for sure that I would be fighting tooth and nail to keep hold of that because thats what it's about, being on the pitch playing for 90 minutes on a Saturday."
"Maybe we've been too soft, maybe we have to bang a few heads together because somethings got to change."
"It's like painting by numbers here, It's ridiculous we have a lot of experienced players here, it's no good saying it's just one or two individuals because we've all been affected by it. The players on the pitch which may be the winners and that can do it have been affected by those that can't, so it's upto them to grab them by the scruff of the neck and make sure they do it, and if they don't get rid."
"I'm here to be a winner, I'm not going to surround myself by people that don't want to be winners or only want it every now and again. I want to win everything, Wether it's a game of pool, a game of darts or a race, wether its beating thier time in a sprint, I don't care if its playing a game of pool against your wife, Beat them, change your brain to win! Winnings good!"