| Chambers and Skuse 08:44 - Sep 4 with 8017 views | itfcjoe |
Interesting stuff this in a great piece from Noel Hunt, although I'm sure some will read this and still think they only play because they are Mick's 'proper blokes' despite all the evidence to the contrary.
This is one of my concerns about why senior players need to be kept onside and worry with spiky approach so far.
http://www.the42.ie/noel-hunt-interview-4210954-Sep2018/
“That chance to go to Ipswich, it was like a saviour, like I’d gone to heaven. Mick McCarthy, TC [his assistant, Terry Connor], they were so good to me, the fans were amazing.
“I scored in the first game and the relief – I remember I was sitting on the train coming back to Leeds. I went down on the Thursday train, played on the Saturday morning on the telly live on Sky, I was crying on the train [afterwards] for about an hour. It was such relief and happiness that I proved myself. I’d proven all the doubts in my own head wrong. Even my wife, she was just so happy when I came home.
“She couldn’t stop smiling and laughing all day. It was just nice, a lovely part of football.”
Hunt credits McCarthy and others at the club for helping to rejuvenate his career.
“[Mick is] a lovely man, a simple man, played the game right – just chilled and relaxed, wanted things done like he asked.
When I went to Ipswich, it was a dressing room. You had these big characters who were the best people in football – Luke Chambers, who is underrated and not often spoke of, he’s still there now as captain. Whatever he earns in football, he deserves, and more. For what he does, the way he has the dressing room, how he conducts himself, how his teams conduct themselves.
“Cole Skuse, he’s still there, he’s another absolute diamond. Strong people and a strong dressing room is what makes a dressing room successful.
“It doesn’t matter who [else] you have, it doesn’t matter the quality of the player. If you have Mick McCarthy, TC, people like Luke Chambers, Cole Skuse, and you put in 15 average players, they will do okay for you. They will not be relegated. They will hold their own, and overachieve, because of the people that are involved.” |  |
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| Chambers and Skuse on 11:44 - Sep 4 with 2211 views | Deano69 |
| Chambers and Skuse on 09:33 - Sep 4 by Guthrum |
You have to not get relegated in order to mount a promotion push. |
Glass half empty? |  |
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| Chambers and Skuse on 11:53 - Sep 4 with 2196 views | LeagueOne |
| Chambers and Skuse on 11:10 - Sep 4 by Steve_M |
Anyone who didn't appreciate the work Mick did on team spirit and unity wasn't paying enough attention, nor able to remember the mess he inherited back in 2012. The question of whether that translated into enough on the pitch is a very different one.
Chambers was looking after himself in the absence of a sensible offer which I completely understand. That he was hours from leaving the club is, as you suggest, indicative of failings from the owner again. |
I think Evans biggest problem here is he's not always the one running the show. It's decent he allows managers to get on with it, but some of the contract situations and deadline day dealings have been unforgivable. The Leon Best scenario sums it up perfectly. We all knew which way that would end up even as mere numbskulls. |  |
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| Chambers and Skuse on 14:37 - Sep 4 with 2137 views | Garv |
| Chambers and Skuse on 10:42 - Sep 4 by Guthrum |
Would we have conceded with Skuse on the pitch? |
He was on the pitch when they stroked it in from the edge of the box last season.
For me, while continuing to make mistakes, Chalobah was a good sub and by putting his foot in and winning headers we were able to get on the front foot a bit more. He's so frustrating because he can be brilliant and awful within the same 10 seconds. |  |
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| Chambers and Skuse on 14:37 - Sep 4 by Garv |
He was on the pitch when they stroked it in from the edge of the box last season.
For me, while continuing to make mistakes, Chalobah was a good sub and by putting his foot in and winning headers we were able to get on the front foot a bit more. He's so frustrating because he can be brilliant and awful within the same 10 seconds. |
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| Chambers and Skuse on 15:05 - Sep 4 with 2106 views | jaykay |
didnt mullet put this up yesterday
A bit on his time here and his whole career in chronological order, but some really good insights about the game in general through the lenses of each club including us. Also proves why everybody hates Leeds I guess.
http://www.the42.ie/noel-hunt-interview-4210954-Sep2018 |  |
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| Chambers and Skuse on 15:40 - Sep 4 with 2079 views | Garv |
Yeah I get that to an extent but it wasn't a great place to have a wild swipe at the ball was it? If he'd miscued it and it gone in the net (would have been bizarre admittedly) we'd have hammered him. He let it run but then he did get a tackle in to take it away from the man. It's not necessarily his fault it fell to another yellow shirted player. There were other defenders on the pitch. | |
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| Chambers and Skuse on 15:50 - Sep 4 with 2067 views | SpruceMoose |
| Chambers and Skuse on 09:16 - Sep 4 by Bluefish |
The strange thing is he is confirming the things that normal people on here have been saying for years. As I've said before I've been lucky enough to be in the dressing room on a match day and chambers influence is enormous, spend any time at all with chambers and skuse and you get see what great blokes they are. Both a pleasure to be around, They are also both massively underrated as players |
My God. I've just worked it out.
You are Mark Fish. |  |
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| Chambers and Skuse on 16:03 - Sep 4 with 2038 views | Slambo |
Me and my mates bumped into Noel Hunt on the tube after that Charlton game. All bundled him, gave him a hug, got a group picture with him, saying 'cheers Noel, you made our day' and he replied 'jaysus lads, you made my f*ckin year!'. Remember cynically thinking at the time 'yeah right', but sounds like he was really at a low ebb then... |  |
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| Chambers and Skuse on 16:31 - Sep 4 with 2000 views | itfcjoe |
| Chambers and Skuse on 16:03 - Sep 4 by Slambo |
Me and my mates bumped into Noel Hunt on the tube after that Charlton game. All bundled him, gave him a hug, got a group picture with him, saying 'cheers Noel, you made our day' and he replied 'jaysus lads, you made my f*ckin year!'. Remember cynically thinking at the time 'yeah right', but sounds like he was really at a low ebb then... |
That's pretty cool, I know it would probably have been an emotional moment for him anyway but the joy you guys showed must have helped him loads. Nice one | |
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| Chambers and Skuse on 18:03 - Sep 4 with 1960 views | Terry_Nutkins |
| Chambers and Skuse on 08:50 - Sep 4 by Deano69 |
Nice article but fully points out the issue, ‘they will do ok and not get relegated’ which is admirable but at the same time not much of a spectator sport. |
Wow, what a way to flip a positive comment from Noel. Maybe you didnt intend it like that. | |
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| Chambers and Skuse on 18:29 - Sep 4 with 1950 views | Deano69 |
| Chambers and Skuse on 18:03 - Sep 4 by Terry_Nutkins |
Wow, what a way to flip a positive comment from Noel. Maybe you didnt intend it like that. |
I was being positive about where we now find ourselves (post MM)
Not quite the opposite, but while it worked for Noel, who is a lovely guy, under the previous regime it would mean years of mediocrity and limited or minimal progress.
We may regret the decision to let MM go if the wheels fall off and we get relegated, but I don't think that will happen. It does feel like we are actually trying to build something now. Time will tell. | |
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| Chambers and Skuse on 18:45 - Sep 4 with 1936 views | Herbivore |
| Chambers and Skuse on 16:03 - Sep 4 by Slambo |
Me and my mates bumped into Noel Hunt on the tube after that Charlton game. All bundled him, gave him a hug, got a group picture with him, saying 'cheers Noel, you made our day' and he replied 'jaysus lads, you made my f*ckin year!'. Remember cynically thinking at the time 'yeah right', but sounds like he was really at a low ebb then... |
You made Noel Hunt cry, I hope you're pleased with yourself. |  |
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| Chambers and Skuse on 18:47 - Sep 4 with 1932 views | Herbivore |
| Chambers and Skuse on 14:37 - Sep 4 by Garv |
He was on the pitch when they stroked it in from the edge of the box last season.
For me, while continuing to make mistakes, Chalobah was a good sub and by putting his foot in and winning headers we were able to get on the front foot a bit more. He's so frustrating because he can be brilliant and awful within the same 10 seconds. |
I seem to recall Skuse had gone off for treatment and was just coming back on the pitch when Maddison scored last year, which kind of further reinforces the point. I'm not sure Chalobah yet has the maturity and discipline needed for the role he's being asked to play. He has the talent but that alone isn't enough. | |
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| Chambers and Skuse on 19:16 - Sep 4 with 1914 views | Bluebell |
| Chambers and Skuse on 15:50 - Sep 4 by SpruceMoose |
My God. I've just worked it out.
You are Mark Fish. |
Either that or he just likes watching men get changed!  |  | | |
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