The full Chris Wilder post-Cardiff press conference - all 2,600 words watfordfc
Chris Wilder spent more than 20 minutes talking in his press conference after the defeat to Cardiff, and pulled no punches as he assessed the game and the wider picture at Vicarage Road.
“When we went 1-0 up, you might have seen I got a message on to Hamza and said ‘nobody changes the script, just do what we’re doing, keep doing it, keep moving the ball, keep opening them up and finding the spaces’. “Basically, you say to the opposition ‘there you go, there’s an opportunity to get back into the game’. And they took it. We gave a daft free kick away and we can’t defend set pieces.
“We know where we wanted the game and we know where they wanted the game. They wanted a bitty game, they want to break the game up. And they had the right to break the game up because they were 3-1 up. “You can’t drop points against Wigan, Huddersfield, Coventry and Cardiff, and expect to be anywhere near the play-offs.
“I don’t know what they’re going to be thinking. Don’t know if they care about anything else. They’ll just jet off and that’ll be it.”“The club has been great with me. I’ll be totally honest, there’s no interference. There has been a couple of discussions in terms of certain things that they wanted to do or I wanted to do, and they’ve let me do it.
“I played in a team right the way through until I was 32, and then I’ve coached teams until I’m 55. In those two periods I’ve also watched a lot of football. “I talk openly and honestly to the players, I’m transparent. I’m the same with the media, and I’m the same with the people who have got the power at the football club.”“Well, I’m not used to it.
“They’ve had five chances and scored three goals. It’s not really been a smash and grab, it’s been a gift. Look at the decisions in that period. That 10 or 15 minutes epitomised the longer standing issues. It’s a club of individuals, isn’t it?”“It’s quite difficult to analyse 20-odd players. Some might just be not bothered and underneath their breath saying ‘I’m not bothered – there’s no consequence for me as a player’.“Some might not even know who I am. But I know who I am.
“There’s no hiding place out there. There’s no hiding place in front of supporters who are on top of you, and giving it to you. And rightly so. “But you just get the feeling that maybe the supporters want to see a team. They want to see something built that maybe lasts for a little bit longer than a year.”“I wasn’t here in terms of recruiting so the model is the model that the club use, and have relied on. So I’m not going to get involved in all that.
“All I know is it’s a really good club with a lot of good people. Great training ground, great facilities, fabulous ground, and a down-to-earth passionate fanbase that wants to see a team. This club has been through lots of decent managers, is it just going to continue on a downward spiral if they continue to not listen to what a lot of experienced managers say?
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