Michael Jolley Evening

Quoted from Father Christmas

That rutter comes across as a right tosspot

Slithering creep

I don't think I have ever heard a worse anecdote than that story right at the start about how he found a pub... and there it ended.

Quoted from Cloudy

That's what I meant!. Jolley said Swedish season ends Nov /Dec and whilst their equivalent of our Jan window is now, it is harder for Clubs to get replacements in the mid season window. That is why he implied it would be our Jan window before he hopes to land a couple of players

Ah, ta. I haven't listened to much of it yet.

Listening to this and tonight's interview I find Jolley much more confident, and much firmer in his responses. It's almost as though he's got over the initial nervous excitement and enthusiasm .now it's a case of my way or the high way , there's  an element of self confidence, almost arrogance when he speaks to the press. He doesn't give very much away and he has a number of set responses to deal with the routine questions. Sounds like he took 1 or 2 lessons from Buckley as to how to deal with local journalists
I don't think he will take kindly to being questioned when we hit a bit of bad form.

Quoted from forza ivano

I don't think he will take kindly to being questioned when we hit a bit of bad form.

He should be ok. He will have had another couple of years experience before then  

Quoted from forza ivano

Listening to this and tonight's interview I find Jolley much more confident, and much firmer in his responses. It's almost as though he's got over the initial nervous excitement and enthusiasm .now it's a case of my way or the high way , there's  an element of self confidence, almost arrogance when he speaks to the press. He doesn't give very much away and he has a number of set responses to deal with the routine questions. Sounds like he took 1 or 2 lessons from Buckley as to how to deal with local journalists
I don't think he will take kindly to being questioned when we hit a bit of bad form.

I felt he dealt well with the press even before we went on that run. He obviously had some pretty shitty games to deal with in the first month, like Coventry, losing late on to Wycombe etc. Thought he handled those well too. He just seems to be very even-handed in whatever the circumstance.

Quoted from tanga_the_indestructible

I felt he dealt well with the press even before we went on that run. He obviously had some pretty shitty games to deal with in the first month, like Coventry, losing late on to Wycombe etc. Thought he handled those well too. He just seems to be very even-handed in whatever the circumstance.

I thought he was a bit blunt with Matt Dean last night.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

I thought he was a bit blunt with Matt Dean last night.

I thought he was only a bit blunt when he was asked questions to which he'd already effectively answered with press releases on the club website, and when MD kept asking him similar questions. Notably asking how long Whitehouse would be out for, and then later asking him if he expects him to play this season.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

I thought he was a bit blunt with Matt Dean last night.

Rightly so imo. Matt likes to think he is some sort of investiagive journalist rather than a local sports reporter!

The questioning about how the Whitehouse injury occurred was cringe worthy.
Asking the same question in 7 different ways, as Tommy posted, is very naff

Quoted from Tommy

I thought he was only a bit blunt when he was asked questions to which he'd already effectively answered with press releases on the club website, and when MD kept asking him similar questions. Notably asking how long Whitehouse would be out for, and then later asking him if he expects him to play this season.

There are certain things, which he has made abundantly clear, he will not discuss, and the main one is transfer speculation, so I don't know why it keeps getting brought up. He's made his position extremely clear. As a local football journalist, I appreciate they have to ask questions that supporters want answered, but equally, it might be easier to just say,"I assume you won't be making a comment on current speculation about Chris Long/delete as applicable" etc.

Quoted from Cloudy

Rightly so imo. Matt likes to think he is some sort of investiagive journalist rather than a local sports reporter!

The questioning about how the Whitehouse injury occurred was cringe worthy.
Asking the same question in 7 different ways, as Tommy posted, is very naff

Would love to have heard Matt Dannatt on the radio