Selles In

[Snowflake Royal]

Great stuff.

I do worry that we are not as far from the relegation places as the article suggests, especially with any more points deductions. But the article gives me confidence we can survive on merit. I was at the Cambridge game, it was very impressive.

OTOH if we do survive, the thousands of disgraceful anti-Selles posts from before Xmas need to be highlighted.

Got my eye on that already - some absolute humdingers in there.

Any between losing to Fleetwood and the wins against Wycombe and Carlisle week fair game in my view. Even after those 2 we lost to Eastbourne and Barnsley.

But you'll find some crackers from September or even August!

By Fleetwood we were on a run of P8, W1, D1, L6. That's quite a generous start point for criticism. And Wycombe was our first win in ages.

I'd say conceding 7 against Blackpool and Northampton are pretty good points to start getting pretty upset, and I'd expect people to be pretty sceptical of a turnaround just by beating Wycombe and Carlisle.

It's more Stevenage and Charlton for faith he'd actualy turned things around imo.

[St Pauli]

Got my eye on that already - some absolute humdingers in there.

Any between losing to Fleetwood and the wins against Wycombe and Carlisle week fair game in my view. Even after those 2 we lost to Eastbourne and Barnsley.

But you'll find some crackers from September or even August!

By Fleetwood we were on a run of P8, W1, D1, L6. That's quite a generous start point for criticism. And Wycombe was our first win in ages.

I'd say conceding 7 against Blackpool and Northampton are pretty good points to start getting pretty upset, and I'd expect people to be pretty sceptical of a turnaround just by beating Wycombe and Carlisle.

It's more Stevenage and Charlton for faith he'd actualy turned things around imo.

Disagree- some of us saw Selles’ potential from the start. Those who didn’t just don’t get football and/or don’t believe enough.

PTR is right- these traitorous vipers in our midst need to be outed and shamed, for the good of the board.

[Snowflake Royal]

Any between losing to Fleetwood and the wins against Wycombe and Carlisle week fair game in my view. Even after those 2 we lost to Eastbourne and Barnsley.

But you'll find some crackers from September or even August!

By Fleetwood we were on a run of P8, W1, D1, L6. That's quite a generous start point for criticism. And Wycombe was our first win in ages.

I'd say conceding 7 against Blackpool and Northampton are pretty good points to start getting pretty upset, and I'd expect people to be pretty sceptical of a turnaround just by beating Wycombe and Carlisle.

It's more Stevenage and Charlton for faith he'd actualy turned things around imo.

Disagree- some of us saw Selles’ potential from the start. Those who didn’t just don’t get football and/or don’t believe enough.

PTR is right- these traitorous vipers in our midst need to be outed and shamed, for the good of the board.

Why don’t you go back to AE and bore everyone with some more Welsh Steel nonsense. This bait is rancid.

[St Pauli]

By Fleetwood we were on a run of P8, W1, D1, L6. That's quite a generous start point for criticism. And Wycombe was our first win in ages.

I'd say conceding 7 against Blackpool and Northampton are pretty good points to start getting pretty upset, and I'd expect people to be pretty sceptical of a turnaround just by beating Wycombe and Carlisle.

It's more Stevenage and Charlton for faith he'd actualy turned things around imo.

Disagree- some of us saw Selles’ potential from the start. Those who didn’t just don’t get football and/or don’t believe enough.

PTR is right- these traitorous vipers in our midst need to be outed and shamed, for the good of the board.

Why don’t you go back to AE and bore everyone with some more Welsh Steel nonsense. This bait is rancid.

Steady on Ian.

I know it’s Monday morning but there’s no need for that kind of negativity.

It’ll probably never happen champ.

[Millsy]

One thing that is guaranteed with humans: when situations change there will always be people who claim they could see it from the start.

[Armadillo Roadkill]

If someone was suggesting after ten games that Selles was some sort of tactical and motivational genius they weren't doing it on any rational basis. Even his Madre would have been wondering how long he could hang on to his job the way things were going. Anyone saying now they always knew it would work out for him are just boasting about their ability to hold positions with absolutely no evidence to back them up. Which, let's face it, is par for the course in an avergae football fan.

The one positive sign that has been there all along is that he never seemed to "lose the dressing room," and that even when we got demolished by Charlton, there was a fair bit of effort and a degree of bad luck thoughout. But it's a results business, and results were bad.

He was never as useless as some people believed, he has learnt and adapted, anywhere else he would have been sacked, and he's now proving himself to be a competent manager and a decent human being.

[leon]

Great stuff.

I do worry that we are not as far from the relegation places as the article suggests, especially with any more points deductions. But the article gives me confidence we can survive on merit. I was at the Cambridge game, it was very impressive.

OTOH if we do survive, the thousands of disgraceful anti-Selles posts from before Xmas need to be highlighted.

Got my eye on that already - some absolute humdingers in there.

I stand by everything I wrote. He was fcuking clueless.

[Snowflake Royal]

Great stuff.

I do worry that we are not as far from the relegation places as the article suggests, especially with any more points deductions. But the article gives me confidence we can survive on merit. I was at the Cambridge game, it was very impressive.

OTOH if we do survive, the thousands of disgraceful anti-Selles posts from before Xmas need to be highlighted.

Got my eye on that already - some absolute humdingers in there.

I stand by everything I wrote. He was fcuking clueless.

I'm sure if PTR or Lux want to pick someone up on criticism of Selles, I'm sure they won't mind other people bringing up some of their more crazy takes.

Lux posts rarely enough on team matters he may escape unscathed, but Paul certainly wouldn't.

[Hound]

Nice interview don’t think it’s been posted anywhere else yet

https://www.coachesvoice.com/cv/ruben-selles-reading/

[royal67]

Nice interview don’t think it’s been posted anywhere else yet

https://www.coachesvoice.com/cv/ruben-selles-reading/

It's a great read. We must make sure that we hang on to him......

[WestYorksRoyal]

Great interview. Reading between the lines, if the takeover falls through he's off. And you can't blame him.

[Orion1871]

Great interview. Reading between the lines, if the takeover falls through he's off. And you can't blame him.

Yeah, well there won't be a club if it falls through, so we'll all be off.

[Hound]

Yeah think it’s one of the best manager interviews I’ve read actually. Goes into the tactical stuff and why they made the changes etc which I found really interesting

[Snowflake Royal]

Cheers Houndy, will take a read at some point.

[WestYorksRoyal]

Yeah think it’s one of the best manager interviews I’ve read actually. Goes into the tactical stuff and why they made the changes etc which I found really interesting

I found his outlook on the game interesting. If you look at our form after Shrewsbury, we score enough goals to be at the top next season, but defensively our record is that of a relegation threatened team which is something you'll want to fix.

But it seems Selles embraces the chaos and wants football to be entertaining. I appreciate that but question if it can bring the consistency needed to finish in the top 6. But perhaps in time he can find a way to balance it. If you look at Klopp's Liverpool there are similarities. When they are on it they're irresistible and have good defenders too, but when they're off they leave so much space in midfield they're like leaky sieve.

One thing's for sure; give it to me over Ince anti football trying to grind out 0-0s or 1-0s every day of the week.

[ayjaydee]

Came across the interview before alighting on this page. Echo most of the comments, very good interesting read.

Let's hope takeover happens and he gets another year with us.

[South Coast Royal]

He certainly talks a good game and fully deserves another season.
The slight concern, bearing in mind that the interview and article appear to be very much up to date, is that the takeover is still spoken of as "if" rather than "when".

I suppose that, having been let down so often during the season, caution and wariness are understandable.,

[tidus_mi2]

Interesting that he specifically mentions the 4-2-2-2 being exploited by teams that play direct, would be interesting to look back and see if we were being caught out like that, committing several players high up to press their defence and the opposition just goes long and bypasses the high press where we have lower numbers to defend against.

Also he does seem quite ambitious, especially with his goal of wanting to lead the Spanish national team, for that he needs to be successful and hopefully his success will be our success.

[Mr Angry]

That is an excellent piece by Selles; really interesting, insightful and humble.

As one who thought he should be let go, I am happy to state I was 100% wrong, and that he is a massive asset for the club, the team and the fans.

My 2nd biggest fear of the Summer is that another team recognise his value and move for him; he can clearly do a job at Championship level and probably higher.

[MouldyRoyal]

He certainly talks a good game and fully deserves another season.
The slight concern, bearing in mind that the interview and article appear to be very much up to date, is that the takeover is still spoken of as "if" rather than "when".

I suppose that, having been let down so often during the season, caution and wariness are understandable.,

Yeah I wouldn't read too much into that, it's understandable caution.