Phil Brown
Born in South Shields.
His manager is a former player of Derby County and is recommending that Derby County is the place to be, that guy being Mikkel Beck. He speaks very highly of me. It's ongoing again. These scenarios take time.
The players have got to know that we are not firing by the seat of our pants.
If you score first, you have a 75 per cent chance of not losing the game. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out that you have to get off to a good start and score.
At this moment in time, it's pointing in the direction that the players aren't good enough, to be able to (i) take on the instructions that we give them and (ii) deal with the situation when the pressure is turned up - and it's disappointing. OK, there's a disappointing group of players in there but you keep on shooting yourself in the foot week in and week out. Something has to change.
We gave ourselves a hill to climb and we climbed it.
I asked for 11 men and I asked for 5 men as substitutes.
We're knocking on the door of success.
The whole team needs solidifying.
I've got to try and educate not only the players but the Derby fans and the board of directors that...
We impacted upon the substitutions.
Those are the pictures you want from pre-season, so although we beat a Premiership side, I can take those away with me.
You get pictures in pre-season. You get pictures of fitness, you get pictures of attitude, you get pictures of mentality, you get pictures of systems and the way players play and you also get pictures of whether people can step up to the plate in the Premier League. I was getting all those pictures in the first half
Dean Marney has also thrown his hat into the ring after Saturday. The more hats there are in the ring, the harder my job is
They will watch his decision-making process.
There was pride in the shirt. There was sweat in the shirt. There was blood in the shirt.
The other night was like when my daughter was being born and I was in the waiting room. You are waiting for good news and obviously the good news didn't come through this time.
They will carry us over the finishing line every so often, and we’ll carry them over the line other times. It’s a mutual respect at the moment.
It's important that you win games at any level.
If one or two do go out, hopefully the players we get in will be better players.
In any game, you get pictures and at half time there were 11 players who had half a shirt for Saturday.