Bignot post match

Quoted from Tommy

Don't see what the fuss is about really. Bignot's clearly laughing and joking with it, not doing it in an aggressive or confrontational way.

Was it just me or did I get the impression yes Bignot was laughing and so was his colleagues but at John Tondeur who was only asking the questions we all wanted to know.

I repeat it was a bit crass taking cheap shots at a man just doing his job get your own house in order Marcus and admit when you don't get it right.

Laughing at, not with a true Town supporter does not go down too well with me Marcus, stop laughing after a 3-0 reverse at home and start thinking, talks cheap get on with it

Bignot is out of his depth. We ship out players deemed not good enough for the Football League and then promptly engage a very moderate non-league manager. We need an experienced man and Bignot as usual has been chosen on the cheap.

Didn't take long did it? After months of people moaning about PH's edgy boring interviews, when he was telling it as he saw it. In comes MB hurray people were saying at last someone with a bit of personality and a positive outlook. Now 8 weeks later he is out of order for maintaining his more lighthearted manner. He clearly was not happy with the performance, he saw what we saw, he has seen the weaknesses we have all seen and is trying to do something about it. He has tried different players in different positions to see if he can get an improvement. To be honest in the games we won recently the weaknesses were still there but we got more joy and more breaks in the goal scoring areas and did not make silly defensive errors like we did yesterday, but the potential was still there. Although chances were limited yesterday we still had enough to have scored a couple of goals and the tone on here would have been so different.

Quoted from oldun

Didn't take long did it? After months of people moaning about PH's edgy boring interviews, when he was telling it as he saw it. In comes MB hurray people were saying at last someone with a bit of personality and a positive outlook. Now 8 weeks later he is out of order for maintaining his more lighthearted manner. He clearly was not happy with the performance, he saw what we saw, he has seen the weaknesses we have all seen and is trying to do something about it. He has tried different players in different positions to see if he can get an improvement. To be honest in the games we won recently the weaknesses were still there but we got more joy and more breaks in the goal scoring areas and did not make silly defensive errors like we did yesterday, but the potential was still there. Although chances were limited yesterday we still had enough to have scored a couple of goals and the tone on here would have been so different.

So how would you have felt had the players walked off the pitch at the end smiling and laughing.  Would you have said its ok, just being positive and maintaining a light hearted manner ?
No it doesn't have to be doom and gloom, but sorry, I thought MB was very unprofessional  in the way he handled that. Smiling or not.

I got the impression it was us with 10 men behind the ball, even when we had possesion

Quoted from Civvy at last

So how would you have felt had the players walked off the pitch at the end smiling and laughing.  Would you have said its ok, just being positive and maintaining a light hearted manner ?
No it doesn't have to be doom and gloom, but sorry, I thought MB was very unprofessional  in the way he handled that. Smiling or not.

The players were rightly disappointed as they came off. MB was disappointed, he certainly was annoyed during the game with certain things that went on and he let his frustration show. With regard to the interview it started in a downbeat way really and rightly said how little trouble they caused us until we gave them 2 goals. When challenged about the second half he rightly commented how much better they were are getting quickly in numbers from box to box and keeping the ball, pointing out that this is a difference at this level. He asked JT if we want to see long balls launched up the pitch and attack from there? He got no answer and simply used that to refuse to say anything about Solihull. He is clearly fed up with being asked. If you watch it on MP it puts his remarks in context. I imagine he would not have been lighthearted in the dressing room.

Quoted from oldun

The players were rightly disappointed as they came off. MB was disappointed, he certainly was annoyed during the game with certain things that went on and he let his frustration show. With regard to the interview it started in a downbeat way really and rightly said how little trouble they caused us until we gave them 2 goals. When challenged about the second half he rightly commented how much better they were are getting quickly in numbers from box to box and keeping the ball, pointing out that this is a difference at this level. He asked JT if we want to see long balls launched up the pitch and attack from there? He got no answer and simply used that to refuse to say anything about Solihull. He is clearly fed up with being asked. If you watch it on MP it puts his remarks in context. I imagine he would not have been lighthearted in the dressing room.

We did see long aimless balls launched up to a front two starved of service. I lost count of the amount of times the ball could have gone into Bogle's feet but went over his head.

It may have been light hearted and joking but both MB and JT need to remember despite going out on MP i's predominately a radio interview and actually they where both responsible for what came across as a pretty poor piece of broadcasting. Lame questions asked answered in a manner that told us nothing. Sometimes If you don't get answers from a manager you could start to suspect he does not know the answers.  

I though MB's comments suggesting we could go to a hoof ball style was interesting considering the amount of times yesterdays the ball sat at the feet of the CBs who then sent it long bypassing the anonymous mid field.  

That definitely went a bit sour and bad tempered... weird... I guess the pressure is already getting to Bignot But JT does come across as a bit stand-offish and awkward with how he asks his questions which doesn't help. I think Marcus probably wants a bit of banter and I don't think JT is that kind of guy.