Alex Neil has reflected on his short time at the club, stating that he is still learning. He also mentions why we haven't been scoring so many goals lately, insisting that teams are afraid to play against us and resort to parking the bus.
STILL LEARNING
“To be honest, I’m learning about a lot of the players still. Danny Batth, that’s his first game for me. I’ve had nine games. People seem to think when you walk into a club and you’ve had a couple of weeks, ‘Oh, that’s enough, come on’. But honestly, I’m learning so much about the players and so much about the club, and how the processes happen and how they do things. What we need to fix, what we need to change and do better.”
GOOD START
"I think we’ve made a good start. Do you know what I think was really interesting about Saturday's game? And I said it to the staff beforehand. If we didn’t win today, our start would have been deemed to have been a poor one. If we did win, it would be deemed to be a decent one, with some optimistic ones maybe saying, ‘That was pretty good’.”
GOOD MODE
"Thankfully, we managed to win, so hopefully we’re in the pretty good mode at the moment and we can try to develop and go on from there."
DEFENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS
“That was something that needed fixing, I spoke about it quite a lot when I first came in because the stats were there, it wasn’t an opinion, it was a fact. I think what we’ve got now is a real platform to go on and win games, and if we can continue that, it’ll bode well for us going forward.”
CAN’T BE EASY
"There’s only two facets of the game, isn’t there? What you do when you’ve got the ball, and what you do when you don’t have it. What you can’t be is easy to play against, and let teams score against you, and then not be able to create going the other way.”
FEAR US
"At the moment, it’s hard for us to break teams down because they’re playing with banks of ten behind the ball. But equally, we’re not easy to play against and I don’t think teams will look forward to playing against us, which in my view, is how I want my team to be represented when they play."
