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Bowyer Talks - Weekly press conference updates

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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,444
    edited March 2020
    LB💬: “My message to the players is the same as always. Saturday is a difficult game against a good side and we have to stay together. We’re a good side, especially at home, and we have good fans that get behind us, so I’m looking forward to getting back to The Valley.” #cafc

    LB💬: “Yes, it’s a big game and we’re in the run-in now, but I trust my players to go out there and fight for every ball.” #cafc

    LB💬: “It’s going to go to the wire and I think there are more teams involved than people realise. Our players know what we have to do and if they do that, we will be fine.” #cafc

    LB💬: “The Huddersfield result was disappointing but the scoreline looked worse than it was. My disappointment was the work-rate, but I know that will change. Every time we’ve had a bad result, the players react and The Valley will be bouncing.” #cafc

    LB💬: “They have a good squad of players and Jonathan has had to bring some of the younger players through this season. I know him as a person and I have no doubt that he will turn things around there.” #cafc
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,444
    edited March 2020
    LB💬: “You can try and set yourself a target, but that can change. If you look at last season, 40 points would have been enough. We’re on 39 with 10 to go, but teams have done well this year so it pushes that mark up.” #cafc

    LB💬: “The most important thing is that we stay above there and get as many points on the board from now until the end of the season. That goal has never changed since the start of the season.” #cafc

    LB💬: “The league is so tight. There’s not much in it at all. Even when we had those injuries and were losing, we were in every game. If you go through a stage of missing chances or making defensive mistakes, you can go on a run of losing games.” #cafc

    LB: “Every game we go into, I believe that we can win because we have the players that can make that happen. If two or three of our players aren’t at it, then we will get found out and that’s what happened on Saturday.” #cafc

    LB: “I spoke to the players and showed them. They can see the physical difference so they know what they need to do.” #cafc

    LB:  “The crowd have been excellent, home and away. Apart from a couple of occasions, the players haven’t let them down. They give them everything. We can’t forget how far we’ve all come, just because things aren’t going as we want to at the moment.” #cafc

    LB: “We were a club that were never tipped to get promotion last year. We’re a club that no one would have tipped to be out of the relegation zone with 10 games to go. It was never going to be easy, but we’re still in a good place.” #cafc

    LB: “You can say mental strength is needed, but it’s about the togetherness as well. The teams that handle it best will be the ones that get the points to stay in this division.” #cafc

    LB: “I honestly believe that if we didn’t have the injury problems that we had, we would be safe now. But that’s the way football works, you never know what’s going to happen.” #cafc
  • LB: “It’s times like this you come together as a group and fight and that’s what my players will be doing. Last week was not a nice experience and they hurt. I know and they know what’s at stake and what they need to do get over the line.” #cafc
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,879
    LB: “We were a club that were never tipped to get promotion last year. We’re a club that no one would have tipped to be out of the relegation zone with 10 games to go. It was never going to be easy, but we’re still in a good place.” #cafc

    Not sure that's true. Maybe not favourites for the top 2, but most clubs would have expected us to be top 6
  • redman
    redman Posts: 5,286
    LB: “We were a club that were never tipped to get promotion last year. We’re a club that no one would have tipped to be out of the relegation zone with 10 games to go. It was never going to be easy, but we’re still in a good place.” #cafc

    Not sure that's true. Maybe not favourites for the top 2, but most clubs would have expected us to be top 6
    Think back last year. I can't remember anyone thinking we would go up. 
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,946
    redman said:
    LB: “We were a club that were never tipped to get promotion last year. We’re a club that no one would have tipped to be out of the relegation zone with 10 games to go. It was never going to be easy, but we’re still in a good place.” #cafc

    Not sure that's true. Maybe not favourites for the top 2, but most clubs would have expected us to be top 6
    Think back last year. I can't remember anyone thinking we would go up. 
    Yep. Think before the season started and when we couldn't fill the bench first game of the season. No one thought we would be up there.
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    Not going to try to over-analyse any of that from Lee. I will just say that it must be very difficult having to trot out responses to essentially the same questions every week, especially as I'll wager he really can't at any point say what he really thinks.
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,960
    redman said:
    LB: “We were a club that were never tipped to get promotion last year. We’re a club that no one would have tipped to be out of the relegation zone with 10 games to go. It was never going to be easy, but we’re still in a good place.” #cafc

    Not sure that's true. Maybe not favourites for the top 2, but most clubs would have expected us to be top 6
    Think back last year. I can't remember anyone thinking we would go up. 
    I won money on us getting promotion, thanks sky bet.

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  • "The Huddersfield result was disappointing but the scoreline looked worse than it was"

    From what i've seen and read about the game, 4-0 was the least that Huddersfield deserved.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,879
    redman said:
    LB: “We were a club that were never tipped to get promotion last year. We’re a club that no one would have tipped to be out of the relegation zone with 10 games to go. It was never going to be easy, but we’re still in a good place.” #cafc

    Not sure that's true. Maybe not favourites for the top 2, but most clubs would have expected us to be top 6
    Think back last year. I can't remember anyone thinking we would go up. 
    Yep. Think before the season started and when we couldn't fill the bench first game of the season. No one thought we would be up there.
    With the transfer window still open, it was only at the end of August when you make a fair judgement.

    Bowyer himself had said that he waiting to bring in the right players, which was a major reason why we lacked in August. Once we signed Bielik, Cullen and Ward and won 4 straight matches in September, I'm sure the bookies would have adjusted us to be top 6 candidates
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,879
    "The Huddersfield result was disappointing but the scoreline looked worse than it was"

    From what i've seen and read about the game, 4-0 was the least that Huddersfield deserved.
    A comfortable win for them, but the last  2 goals came when Bowyer went sh*t or bust with his subs to chase the game, so I slightly see his point
  • micks1950
    micks1950 Posts: 943
    clive said:
    “They are in a different league to us budget wise,” said Bowyer. “And they strengthened in January, they brought in three or four good players. Their chairman recognised they were in a position they did not want to be in and they chucked some money into it to strengthen them. They’ve picked up some good results on the back of it.”


  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,879
    micks1950 said:
    clive said:
    “They are in a different league to us budget wise,” said Bowyer. “And they strengthened in January, they brought in three or four good players. Their chairman recognised they were in a position they did not want to be in and they chucked some money into it to strengthen them. They’ve picked up some good results on the back of it.”


    To be fair they also sold Randolph to West Ham for a hefty fee which paid for any business they did!
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,267
    micks1950 said:
    clive said:
    “They are in a different league to us budget wise,” said Bowyer. “And they strengthened in January, they brought in three or four good players. Their chairman recognised they were in a position they did not want to be in and they chucked some money into it to strengthen them. They’ve picked up some good results on the back of it.


    Says it all really, if only we had strengthened our team. 
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,004
    micks1950 said:
    clive said:
    “They are in a different league to us budget wise,” said Bowyer. “And they strengthened in January, they brought in three or four good players. Their chairman recognised they were in a position they did not want to be in and they chucked some money into it to strengthen them. They’ve picked up some good results on the back of it.


    Says it all really, if only we had strengthened our team. 
    But we had a marquee signing............so I heard  :)
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,236
    Politely suggesting that Thursday's press conference might be an interesting one, especially if Chris Parkes is still suspended.

    You might want to bookmark this thread.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,733
    Bowyer will be advised not to talk about anything other than football. Unless of course we have further developments before then.

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  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,358
    Bowyer will be advised not to talk about anything other than football. Unless of course we have further developments before then.

    Bowyer might be fishing on his lake in France... 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,733
    You couldn't blame him for wishing he was!
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,879
    "Lee a dramatic week at the club, with its whole future at stake. How are you and the players coping?"

    "It is what it is..."
  • alicwkd
    alicwkd Posts: 374
    "Lee a dramatic week at the club, with its whole future at stake. How are you and the players coping?"

    "It is what it is..."
    "I can't control that"
  • DoctorCharlton
    DoctorCharlton Posts: 2,463
    Genuinely feel for Bowyer and the squad with all this shit going on. 

    Would be nice if he could come out and say exactly what he thinks of Southall 

  • Pavoren007
    Pavoren007 Posts: 2,528
    I think Lee should be given a press conference bye this week and let him focus on the team.
  • If he does a Press Conference I really hope he isnt asked about any of this shit whether its Southall | Nimer | Parkes

    Focus on talking about the game itself and potentially playing in empty stadiums if your going to talk about other subjects

    Leave the players and management to concentrate on what they do best!!
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,733
    Well said Bowyer.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    I love the guy but lets be honest, he is not going to walk away at any time is he, he has the best part of a three year contract in his back pocket so no matter what is going on you hang around to be sacked and get paid off.

    It's what football managers do, some make a good living out of it.