EX-Head-coach: Dave Hockaday

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Leedsfan

Jeg får gi Hockaday litt skryt for kampen i går. Beste fotballen vi har spilt siden Grayson sine dager. Hockaday får gutta   til å spille som McD lovet, "pass and move"!

Alle gutta virker ganske trygge og de jobber hardt! Meget imponert over Morison, jobber utrolig bra nedover venstresiden. Byram blir god i år og jeg tror Doukara også kommer til å bli viktig!
I scored 24 goals helping my side win promotion back to the Premier League aged just 22. Then in my first season in the top flight I had bagged an impressive 15 goals by the end of January. My form earned me an England call-up. Am I a £35m striker? No. I am Michael Ricketts, February 2002.

columbi

Blir en svært spennende sesong og dersom treneren har fått respekten på treningsfeltet og i garderoben, tror jeg dette kan bli bra.
En tøff treningskultur ønsker jeg velkommen og om gutta blir et sammensveiset lag som står sammen, ser jeg ingen grunn til ikke å få suksess. Hockaday har kanskje ingen meritter på høyt plan og er nok litt avhengig å få en tidlig bra flyt i sesongen. Mest for å tilfredsstille Cellino som virker som en kar som ikke nøler med handling dersom det ikke går hans vei.
Og en annen fordel Hockaday har, er jo at han i større grad kan konsentrere seg om trening og spillerutvikling. Nye spillere er det andre som ordner. Men jeg regner jo med at gutta har en god dialog med tanke hvilke typer som bør inn.
 

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Leeds United manager Dave Hockaday desperate to defy his doubters at Elland Road this season

Less than a year ago Hockaday was in charge at Conference side Forest Green Rovers. He was sacked last October â€" and has now been charged with reviving Leeds' fortunes

Bumpy ride: New Leeds head coach knows life at Elland Road could be uncomfortable but is determined to prove his doubters wrong Photo: ACTION IMAGES

By Luke Edwards8:36PM BST 02 Aug 2014 6 Comments

Dave Hockaday’s appointment as Leeds United’s new head coach came as a surprise to everyone, except the man himself. What he may lack in experience, the club’s eighth manager in 10 years makes up for in self-belief.
“I don’t doubt myself,” he says. “I’ve been involved in professional football for 40 years, I’ve coached in the Premier League and I believe I’ve got a solid CV.”
It seems a curious comment for a man who has never managed in the Football League and who was sacked by Conference side Forest Green Rovers in October last year, but then again Leeds are a curious club.
It has been 10 years since they last graced the Premier League, a decade that has seen seven managers fail to keep results on the pitch in line with the giddy expectations of supporters and directors alike.
There have been old managers and young ones, former players, club legends and even old adversaries like Championship promotion specialist, Neil Warnock, but none have lasted long.

Now it is Hockaday’s turn, the 56-year-old having been personally headhunted by the club’s new owner Massimo Cellino.
To say that his arrival was greeted with disgruntlement by supporters would be something of an understatement.
Even before he had taken a training session, let alone played a game, a poll in the Yorkshire Evening Press revealed that 85 per cent of supporters opposed his appointment.
It is the kind of reception that would have crushed most rookie managers, but not Hockaday.
“I came in and there was a little bit of chaos going on, but I’ve been very pleased with how things have gone” said Hockaday.
“I wasn’t surprised I got the job because I didn’t apply for it. I was approached.
“I met the president a few times and I was offered the job. I weighed everything up, but it only took a split second for me to accept because I’m comfortable with what was offered.
“I’m not the manager in the English sense, I’m the head coach. I don’t do any negotiating on transfers or contracts, I coach the team and that’s my passion, that is what I want to do more than anything else. But I have to earn the respect of the supporters, I accept that.”
Hockaday talks of already seeing “green shoots of recovery” and repeatedly praised the players for their willingness to embrace his ideas, but he also delivered a reality check just in case there are those who expect him to win promotion in his first season.
“Leeds United are one of the biggest clubs in the country, we have fans all over the world, but we are a bottom half of the table Championship team. That’s where we finished and the table doesn’t lie.
“We have more potential than most to play in the Premier League, but we have a million miles to go. That’s the ambition, but we are going to do things step by step and I intend to be here for a long time.”
Cellino was so desperate to buy Leeds four months ago that he took the Football League to court after initially failing their fit and proper persons test for new owners due to having a previous conviction for fraud. As yet, however, he has done nothing to prove he will succeed where Ken Bates and DFH Capital did not.
He was a controversial figure as owner of Italian club Cagliari, and while he has rescued Leeds from another crippling spell in administration, there is little confidence things will improve dramatically on the pitch: this summer has seen stories of drastic cost-cutting at the training ground and goalkeeper Paddy Kenny being sacked reportedly because he was born on May 17 (Cellino considers the number unlucky).
Last season’s captain and top goalscorer Ross McCormack has also been sold to Fulham for
£7 million as the Scotland international was disillusioned with the treatment of former manager Brian McDermott.
Hockaday has no say over transfers, which are controlled by Cellino and sporting director Nicola Salerno, and there is a distinctly Italian flavour to recruitment: Marco Silvestri from Chievo, Tommaso Bianchi from Sassuolo, Gaetano Berardi from Samdoria and Souleymane Doukara, from Catania.
Leeds have shown an interest in former Newcastle United striker Nile Ranger, who had his contract terminated by Swindon Town six months ago, but the only domestic signing is goalkeeper Stuart Taylor from Reading.
Cellino has no intention of spending lavishly chasing the promotion dream, which is why Hockaday believes he is the ideal person to look after the team.
“He wants to be successful, he wants to leave a legacy, but when you are climbing Everest it might take you a million steps, but you have to make sure the first one is sturdy or you have no chance of getting to the summit.
"That is what we are doing. The president wants to buy Elland Road back so we are not lodgers, that’s going to take some time, but if he hadn’t bought the club, there might not be a Leeds United. They were going into administration again.
"The business is stable, but I know I will have to improve this team on the training pitch.
“I’ll work with whatever players I’m given. We are changing the culture here and we are trying to play attractive football.
"It’s going to be a bumpy ride, there will be setbacks, but I believe we are already taking steps forward.”
Leeds supporters will no doubt point out they have heard it all before. Hockaday and Cellino both have much to prove.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/leeds-united/11007951/Leeds-United-manager-Dave-Hockaday-desperate-to-defy-his-doubters-at-Elland-Road-this-season.html
Min første Leeds-kamp:
Strømsgodset vs Leeds, 19.september 1973

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Min første Leeds-kamp:
Strømsgodset vs Leeds, 19.september 1973

Jon R

Hockaday prøver så desperat å bli sett og anerkjent for jobben han gjør. Får nesten litt vondt av han.

Basert på inntrykkene fra kampen i går gjør han opplagt mye riktig. Hockaday fortjener saktens et klapp eller to på skulderen, både av supportere og president. Det finnes vel knapt noen "trener" eller manager i fotballengland som har en mer utfordrende rolle enn han!
Jon R.

Asbjørn

...bli litt bedre kjent med denne Hockaday'en vår?



Quite how Dave Hockaday came to be the head coach at Leeds United remains something of a mystery.
Even after more than an hour at the club’s Thorp Arch training ground he is reluctant to reveal much detail. He refuses to name the person who alerted Massimo Cellino to his existence. He won’t even name the London hotel where he first met the eccentric Italian. ‘It’s irrelevant,’ he says sharply, explaining only that ‘someone in footballing circles had been asked to source a good English coach’.
Hockaday does appear to have enjoyed some success as a coach and soon has you wondering why it is only now, at 56, that he has risen to prominence. He is passionate, professional and, judging by his academic achievements, exceptionally intelligent.

But there are moments in this interview that might explain why he has not made a more rapid ascent of football’s career ladder. For instance, when we shake hands at the end, he insists that we repeat it and that, this time, I make what he considers to be proper eye contact. ‘I always tell my players to make eye contact,’ he says with a slightly unnerving stare.
He does come across as rather intense but he can be disarmingly honest, too. ‘I appreciate I’m not a big name so I understand their misgivings,’ he says of the Leeds supporters alarmed by his appointment.
The description he offers of himself is nothing if not candid. ‘I’m not in anybody’s gang,’ he says. ‘I’m a loner. I like to think most people in the game know of me and I’d like to think most people would respect the work that I’ve done. I don’t have a big agent to represent me. I get my head down and work hard. That’s what I do.’
The line of not being in anybody’s gang is one he revisits two or three times. ‘Because I’m not,’ he says. ‘All the jobs I’ve got have been off my own back. I haven’t been anybody’s mate.’
I suggest he sounds resentful. ‘I’m ultra-realistic,’ he says. ‘I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I love my wife (Geraldine). If I’m not working I want to spend time with my wife. I’m not a lad. I can go out with the lads but I don’t need a group of lads to feel comfortable. I’ve never had alcohol so I’ve never missed it. I can’t even have a sherry trifle.’

And yet within two-and-a-half hours of meeting him at that secret London location, Cellino had decided Hockaday was the man. The one-time manager of Forest Green Rovers had convinced the president of Leeds that he should join an illustrious list that includes Don Revie, Brian Clough, Howard Wilkinson, George Graham, David O’Leary and Terry Venables.
‘That’s history,’ he says of that group of former Leeds managers. ‘There’s nothing I can do about that. I have been given this great opportunity and the man who has given me it has looked me in the eye and said, “I believe in you”.
‘And that is humbling. That puts a lump in my throat, and I’ll give him, the players, the staff and the fans everything I’ve got.’
Does he deserve it? ‘He feels I deserve it,’ he says. Does he feel ready? ‘Yeah, I’m ready. I’m better than ready. I’m prepared.’
When he went to that first meeting in London, at the time out of work, the identity of the club had been kept from him. ‘I went to meet an Italian voice,’ he says. ‘But when I went there the president was there. In five hours all we did was talk football. We had salt and pepper pots, ashtrays. We had a couple more meetings but we hit it off immediately.

‘He knew more about football than any president or chairman I’d met in nearly 40 years in football.’
Hockaday would appear to know quite a bit too, and not just about football. After his father escaped the harsh realities of a North East mining community to become ‘a successful electrical engineer’, Hockaday was educated at Bede Hall Grammar School in Billingham, County Durham.
He wasn’t just bright, he was super-bright, joining an accelerated class that saw pupils sit their O Levels and A Levels a year early. He earned ‘numerous O Levels’ and, at 17, four A Levels in ‘English, maths, history and general studies’. ‘I had been accepted by five universities to study business studies,’ he says. ‘I was planning to go to Sheffield because they also had a good football team. But then I was offered the chance to sign with Blackpool and that was that.’
Not that a move into professional football would mark the end of his studies.
‘I was a professional for 20 years but in that time I studied cost accounting, business studies, quarry engineering, civil engineering,’ he says. ‘I needed to satisfy that as well as the football. I always thought I might need something to fall back on if I got injured.'

He says he had plenty of injuries but played ‘more than 650 games’ as a full back for Blackpool, Swindon, Hull, Stoke, Shrewsbury and Cirencester Town.
It was at Cirencester that he established what he says was the first football academy in this country, joining forces with Cirencester College in 1996 to establish a model that provided the blueprint for the modern professional game.
‘I blazed a trail,’ he says. ‘I was asked by Cirencester to set up a youth system and with one or two other people I created the Cirencester Football Academy. It was our aim to get the players into the best leagues we could while also producing players for Cirencester Town.
‘For four or five years we won everything. We were the Manchester United of college football.
‘Howard Wilkinson and Don Howe came down on behalf of the FA and elaborated on what I started in Cirencester. On the back of Howard and Don coming down I did a lot of work for the FA. Glenn Hoddle got to hear about me when he was England manager. He would take our lads a couple of weeks before an England game, and practise with us what they had planned for the England team at Bisham Abbey.’
Graham Taylor got to hear about Hockaday and, in 2000, the then Watford manager lured him to Vicarage Road. He started as Under 18 coach, with Ashley Young among his apprentices, and ended up as first-team coach to Aidy Boothroyd. He helped Boothroyd guide Watford into the Premier League, with a play-off win over Leeds, only for Boothroyd to dismiss him midway through a Premier League season that ended in relegation.
Why? ‘Football is a strange business,’ he says. ‘I thought we had enough in our locker to stay up. It was in the balance but at the end of January the decision was made. There was nothing I could do about that.’
He joined Martin Allen at MK Dons, the first of three brief spells â€" the other two coming at Leicester and Cheltenham â€" alongside the infamous ‘Mad Dog’. ‘We’re different,’ says Hockaday. ‘I’ve got a long fuse, longer than Martin. But Mad Dog certainly ain’t mad. There is a raw intelligence with Martin.’

Hockaday took another academy job at Southampton, working briefly with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, but left amid the upheaval at the club in 2009, a casualty of ‘the Dutch revolution’ there.
In September 2009 he applied for a job for the first time, for his first job in management at Forest Green. He had four seasons there, narrowly avoiding relegation twice and finishing no higher than 10th despite the biggest budget in the Conference Premier. Even so, Hockaday believes his side played ‘the best football ever seen in that league’.
His first month in the job at Leeds has, he admits, been ‘crazy, brilliant and everything in between’. There was a pre-season tour to Italy featuring a match memorable only for the fact that their Romanian opponents didn’t show.
There were reports of players being told to bring their own food to training as part of Cellino’s cost-cutting measures. It was said the players had to do their own laundry, while one report suggested goalkeeper Paddy Kenny’s future at the club was in doubt because Cellino has a dislike for the number 17 and Kenny was born on May 17.

‘Some people have been having a bit of fun at Leeds’ expense,’ says Hockaday. ‘The president has come in and has seen Leeds United as fat and lazy. So what he’s done is really shaken the tree to get rid of the dead wood, and now he will start fleshing it out again.
‘Yes, on the first two training days the players were told to bring their own food. But then we go away to the Dolomites to a five-star hotel and we’re treated like royalty. I also believe he’s bringing in an Italian chef.’
He denies the players had to do their own laundry and says food is back on the menu. But he has to go through various cupboards to find himself some lunch on this particular afternoon, and the reception area to the training ground â€" a complex that had to be sold in 2004 and is now rented for a staggering £600,000 a year â€" is unmanned and in darkness.
In fairness to Cellino, he has inherited a financial mess. Hockaday certainly believes that and is happy to work within the boundaries Cellino sets, just as he is happy to let his employer buy and sell the players.

‘I’m a coach,’ he says. ‘I don’t want to get involved in the financial side of things. I don’t want to get involved in negotiating contracts. My expertise is on the training pitch and on match day.’
Self-promotion would not seem to be a strong point. ‘It doesn’t interest me,’ he says. ‘I probably could have made more money if I’d studied for that business degree.
‘I have a brother who’s a partner in a law firm, another who began in quantity surveying and is now a project manager. My youngest brother is pretty much on the board of a multi-national chemical company.
‘Then there’s me, kicking a ball around. But I’m happy with the career I’ve had. I am what I am and confident in my ability. I appreciate a lot of people wouldn’t have heard of me, so I would have been a shock to a lot of people. I’m not daft.
‘Halfway through the five-hour meeting with the president he said, “Do you know what I’m asking you to do?” I said, “Yes, but do you know what you’re asking me?”
‘Because I’m not a name. And it will get bumpy.’

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2713577/Dave-Hockaday-self-confessed-loner-teetotal-job-non-League-man-rescue-Leeds-United.html
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sportcarl1

Quote from: Jon R on August 03, 2014, 11:47:41
Hockaday prøver så desperat å bli sett og anerkjent for jobben han gjør. Får nesten litt vondt av han.

Basert på inntrykkene fra kampen i går gjør han opplagt mye riktig. Hockaday fortjener saktens et klapp eller to på skulderen, både av supportere og president. Det finnes vel knapt noen "trener" eller manager i fotballengland som har en mer utfordrende rolle enn han!
så sannt så sant, finns inget mer otacksamt jobb än att vara tränare eller ägare av den här klubben,
 

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Quote from: sportcarl1 on August 03, 2014, 12:36:50
Quote from: Jon R on August 03, 2014, 11:47:41
Hockaday prøver så desperat å bli sett og anerkjent for jobben han gjør. Får nesten litt vondt av han.

Basert på inntrykkene fra kampen i går gjør han opplagt mye riktig. Hockaday fortjener saktens et klapp eller to på skulderen, både av supportere og president. Det finnes vel knapt noen "trener" eller manager i fotballengland som har en mer utfordrende rolle enn han!
så sannt så sant, finns inget mer otacksamt jobb än att vara tränare eller ägare av den här klubben,

Etter å ha lest intervjuet så blir jeg bare litt flau over kommentaren din, Jon.
Min første Leeds-kamp:
Strømsgodset vs Leeds, 19.september 1973

Leedsfan

Quote from: Promotion 2010 on August 03, 2014, 15:58:34
Quote from: sportcarl1 on August 03, 2014, 12:36:50
Quote from: Jon R on August 03, 2014, 11:47:41
Hockaday prøver så desperat å bli sett og anerkjent for jobben han gjør. Får nesten litt vondt av han.

Basert på inntrykkene fra kampen i går gjør han opplagt mye riktig. Hockaday fortjener saktens et klapp eller to på skulderen, både av supportere og president. Det finnes vel knapt noen "trener" eller manager i fotballengland som har en mer utfordrende rolle enn han!
så sannt så sant, finns inget mer otacksamt jobb än att vara tränare eller ägare av den här klubben,

Etter å ha lest intervjuet så blir jeg bare litt flau over kommentaren din, Jon.

Føler heller ikke at han desperat prøver på noenting...?!?
I scored 24 goals helping my side win promotion back to the Premier League aged just 22. Then in my first season in the top flight I had bagged an impressive 15 goals by the end of January. My form earned me an England call-up. Am I a £35m striker? No. I am Michael Ricketts, February 2002.

Jon R

#279
Quote from: Leedsfan on August 03, 2014, 16:19:04
Quote from: Promotion 2010 on August 03, 2014, 15:58:34
Quote from: sportcarl1 on August 03, 2014, 12:36:50
Quote from: Jon R on August 03, 2014, 11:47:41
Hockaday prøver så desperat å bli sett og anerkjent for jobben han gjør. Får nesten litt vondt av han.

Basert på inntrykkene fra kampen i går gjør han opplagt mye riktig. Hockaday fortjener saktens et klapp eller to på skulderen, både av supportere og president. Det finnes vel knapt noen "trener" eller manager i fotballengland som har en mer utfordrende rolle enn han!
så sannt så sant, finns inget mer otacksamt jobb än att vara tränare eller ägare av den här klubben,

Etter å ha lest intervjuet så blir jeg bare litt flau over kommentaren din, Jon.

Føler heller ikke at han desperat prøver på noenting...?!?

Sorry for uklarheten gutter. Det var ikke det siste intervjuet  promo postet jeg ønsket å vise til men den som samme mann har postet rett under. Burde selvfølgelig ha quotet....

Dette var ment som en støtterklæring. Mannen jobber mot negative vindmøller!

Makes more sense now?  :)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/leeds-united/11007951/Leeds-United-manager-Dave-Hockaday-desperate-to-defy-his-doubters-at-Elland-Road-this-season.html
Jon R.

Asbjørn

Tillitserklæring fra Cellino i Telegraph-artikkelen: :)
Chris O ‏@chrisolf  · 1m 
Cellino says hockaday is ok but needs babysitting lol #lufc


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Blank_File

Jeg synes det er helt sjef med Cellino. Han er så parodisk og komisk at det er umulig å ikke like det. Foreløpig er dette det mest lovende som har skjedd oss siden vi gikk i inn bakgården.

Jon R

Vi kan saktens smile men hvor mye tåler the Hock av dette? Bare for et par uker siden var han sterkt involvert i rekrutteringen. Nå er han vingeklippet:

It’s a complicated recruitment structure, and some connected with the club have reservations. Chesterfield centre back Liam Cooper, for example, was chased after Salerno watched him play just once, in a pre-season draw against Leeds. Then negotiations broke down over money.

Hockaday, paid between £80-90,000 compared to the £750,000 salary his predecessor McDermott had earned, wanted a 31-year-old defender available on a free, but Cellino refused.

‘He has asked me about five or six players,’ said the Italian before unintentionally damning his new manager: ‘Don’t forget where he came from; league five.

‘Talking with managers of Premier League clubs, Championship clubs, is a new thing. He’s like a baby, who is in a toy shop.’
"

Vi får virkelig et innblikk i Cellino på godt og vondt i disse dager. Noen som tør å vedde på at Hockaday fortsatt er headcoach når vi skriver 2015?  :o
Jon R.

Blank_File

Jeg bare nekter å tro at ikke Dave har hatt en anelse om hva som ventet han.

Jon R

Quote from: Blank_File on August 06, 2014, 00:54:37
Jeg bare nekter å tro at ikke Dave har hatt en anelse om hva som ventet han.

En ting er å være forberedt, noe annet er å leve midt opp i det. Det er jo rimelig nedlatende karakteristikker Cellino kommer med i det offentlige, mot en 56 årig mann med lengre fartstid i fotballen enn Cellino...

Når det er sagt så virker Hockaday som en robust mann som sikkert tåler en støyt.  :)
Jon R.

lojosang

Vi er eid av Dave Brent.
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Gufrias

Quote from: lojosang on August 06, 2014, 01:43:09
Vi er eid av Dave Brent.
...med den lille forskjellen at Brent er bortimot handlingslammet.
Hekta på Leeds siden 1974

Leedsgutt

Quote from: Jon R on August 06, 2014, 00:30:37
Vi kan saktens smile men hvor mye tåler the Hock av dette? Bare for et par uker siden var han sterkt involvert i rekrutteringen. Nå er han vingeklippet:

It’s a complicated recruitment structure, and some connected with the club have reservations. Chesterfield centre back Liam Cooper, for example, was chased after Salerno watched him play just once, in a pre-season draw against Leeds. Then negotiations broke down over money.

Hockaday, paid between £80-90,000 compared to the £750,000 salary his predecessor McDermott had earned, wanted a 31-year-old defender available on a free, but Cellino refused.

‘He has asked me about five or six players,’ said the Italian before unintentionally damning his new manager: ‘Don’t forget where he came from; league five.

‘Talking with managers of Premier League clubs, Championship clubs, is a new thing. He’s like a baby, who is in a toy shop.’
"

Vi får virkelig et innblikk i Cellino på godt og vondt i disse dager. Noen som tør å vedde på at Hockaday fortsatt er headcoach når vi skriver 2015?  :o

Han sa også i intervjuet "‘David Hockaday, the first day he heard McCormack wanted to go he said, “I don’t want him in pre- season, sell him”.

I told Hockaday, “Did I ask your f****** advice? No. So shut the f*** up”.’

Jeg nekter å tro at han sa det ordrett, går ikke ann at Hockaday akseptere det.



Phil Hay @PhilHayYEP  Â·  4h
@EastStandUpper I gather that Cellino had Hockaday in for a meeting on Sunday. Wasn't happy with the Dundee United performance


Er det noen flere enn meg som tror at Leeds hvis  ligger på 4-5 plass og alle er fornøyde, men så liker ikke Cellino måten Hockaday spiller på.... tror dere han kan få sparken ?

Liker ikke måten Cellino går ut i media noen ganger

GeirO

Vinner vi ikke klart mot Millwall er det nok goodbye til Hockaday ut fra Cellinos reaksjon etter Dundeematchen.
Forøvrig er det jo økonomisk smart å ha en trener på 80.000 i lønn i stedet for 750.000. Mange pund spart her....
MOT

Leedsfan

Quote from: GeirO on August 06, 2014, 12:52:11
Vinner vi ikke klart mot Millwall er det nok goodbye til Hockaday ut fra Cellinos reaksjon etter Dundeematchen.
Forøvrig er det jo økonomisk smart å ha en trener på 80.000 i lønn i stedet for 750.000. Mange pund spart her....

Tullprat, Cellino er ambisiøs, men ikke dum!
I scored 24 goals helping my side win promotion back to the Premier League aged just 22. Then in my first season in the top flight I had bagged an impressive 15 goals by the end of January. My form earned me an England call-up. Am I a £35m striker? No. I am Michael Ricketts, February 2002.

Andersen

vår head Coach gikk vel ikke inn i denne jobben med øya knipne sammen , han visste vel noe hva denne MC står for . Seier på lørdag borte mot Millwall gjør vel at han kan senke skuldrene noe . MC har sagt : jeg tar meg av salg, spillerkjøp, lønninger, det å drive klubben. Klart tap i de 4- 5 første kampene gjør vel at vår head Coach sitter løst i trener stolen !

Asbjørn


Positive Brenden ‏@Brendencolgan1  · 7m 
DH on MC" our relationship is good, we speak very often. I respect him massively. I want to repay his faith in me.

Denne kan man se på flere måter:
1.DH er avhengig av forholdet til MC og spyttslikker ham konstant
2.Det kan også våre at forholdet er slik (pr dato) at de kan fleip-snakke til hverandre slik at MC kan si det ¨han er sitert på overfor DH uten at det skader forholdet...

...jeg håper på punkt 2 men frykter nok at det er punkt 1   ::)
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GeirO

Quote from: Leedsfan on August 06, 2014, 13:07:50
Quote from: GeirO on August 06, 2014, 12:52:11
Vinner vi ikke klart mot Millwall er det nok goodbye til Hockaday ut fra Cellinos reaksjon etter Dundeematchen.
Forøvrig er det jo økonomisk smart å ha en trener på 80.000 i lønn i stedet for 750.000. Mange pund spart her....

Tullprat, Cellino er ambisiøs, men ikke dum!

Hvis Cellino legger lista så høyt at han syntes Dundeekampen var altfor dårlig tror jeg ikke dette er tullprat med en dårlig seriestart.
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Quote from: GeirO on August 06, 2014, 23:20:27
Quote from: Leedsfan on August 06, 2014, 13:07:50
Quote from: GeirO on August 06, 2014, 12:52:11
Vinner vi ikke klart mot Millwall er det nok goodbye til Hockaday ut fra Cellinos reaksjon etter Dundeematchen.
Forøvrig er det jo økonomisk smart å ha en trener på 80.000 i lønn i stedet for 750.000. Mange pund spart her....

Tullprat, Cellino er ambisiøs, men ikke dum!

Hvis Cellino legger lista så høyt at han syntes Dundeekampen var altfor dårlig tror jeg ikke dette er tullprat med en dårlig seriestart.

Men Dundee kampen var ikke så god som omtalt her...

Synes det var vel mye skryt for den prestasjonen, vi hadde forlite gjennombruddskraft i hele laget og Morison på venstre var håpløs. Laget var litt ubalansert med innover høyrebeint kant på høyre og Morison som bortsett fra på målet lå bredt hele omgangen uten å ta løp uten ball.

 

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En knapp times prat med David Hockaday (06.08.14) på BBC Radio Leeds:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023h31s

og litt mindre prat, men flotte vendinger med ball i hånd:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22ykrt_dave-hockaday-interview-look-north-lufc_sport

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Quote from: Enrique on August 07, 2014, 11:00:14
En knapp times prat med David Hockaday (06.08.14) på BBC Radio Leeds:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023h31s

og litt mindre prat, men flotte vendinger med ball i hånd:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22ykrt_dave-hockaday-interview-look-north-lufc_sport

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Leeds United coach David Hockaday says he and his players will ‘sweat and bleed’ for the white shirt. Phil Hay reports.

Leeds United: Hockaday did homework before accepting the job
It would be wrong to describe David Hockaday as maligned or misunderstood.

Overlooked is closer to the mark. He says himself that people are oblivious to his 40-or-so years in football, a fact which says something about Hockaday’s ability to make the world notice him.

His predecessor at Leeds United, Brian McDermott, used to admit to a chronic image problem. He would joke about his need for greater charisma or suave, Mourinho-like features. But behind the self-deprecation, McDermott had a reputation: promotion on his CV and the stamp of the Premier League. When it came to image, there was no problem at all.

Hockaday’s appointment as head coach at Elland Road was more of a PR minefield.

United’s owner, Massimo Cellino, said the 56-year-old sold himself during a five-hour meeting at a hotel in London, talking football, football, football.

Regardless, others looked at Hockaday and saw a man who, when typed into Google, brought up first a video of Forest Green Rovers’ supporters calling for him to be sacked. Forest Green was Hockaday’s last job but the Conference club are not the sum of his record.

“I spent the last four years there,” he says, “but that’s four years out of 40 I’ve had in the game. It’s important for me to point that out.

“If you’re looking at the whole picture, you’ve got to factor in my time coaching in the Premier League, and the Championship and Leagues One and Two. I’m not a big name, I accept that, but I know I can coach and it doesn’t really matter if you come from Planet Zog â€" produce a good, winning team and people will have you.”

In Leeds, they will. But producing a good, winning team at Leeds United has been a miracle too far for several managers.

McDermott spoke many times about his Championship win-ratio at Reading â€" 50 per cent or thereabouts â€" but will be less inclined in future to dig up his statistics at Elland Road.

Neil Warnock’s “record eighth promotion” was also a whimsical notion, never once on the cards.

Warnock managed Leeds in the vicious current of Gulf Finance House’s buy-out of Ken Bates, and McDermott lost control during Cellino’s complicated buy-out of United. In his favour, Hockaday has clear water in front of him and an owner who already seems to be bedding in for years.

He was, without question, Cellino’s choice, as surprising as that choice proved to be.

Hockaday’s appointment in June was a return to employment eight months after he and Forest Green parted company in diplomatic fashion and by mutual consent.

“When I left Forest Green I was desperate to get back into the Football League,” he says. “In six months I must have watched over 100 games at every level.

“I was blessed to be invited into a lot of clubs, and a lot of clubs in the Championship. I went to watch training and I was allowed to put on one or two little sessions. I talked to people, kept my hand in. It was a crash course of learning.

“Mainly, you learn about things you could have done better in previous roles but you also pick up new techniques, new practices.

“Because of that, I’m well aware of who plays where in the Championship and how other clubs and managers work. I’m not a novice and I haven’t come into this job blind.

“It’s true that I’m not a name, that people might not really know who I am or what my background is, but I feel I’m qualified to give it a good go.”

The question from the outset was one of authority: how much would Hockaday have? It is not a secret â€" or even unfair to assume â€" that Cellino has dictated United’s transfers this summer but Hockaday says he was consulted on all of those made from abroad. “Look, they weren’t lads I was familiar with,” he says, “but the way it works is I look at the positions where we need strengthening, the president will often suggest a name and say ‘go and do your homework on him.’ I do that and we see what we think.

“It’s not like I’m having players dumped on me. We both have our say and take a view but obviously he has the final say because he’s paying the money and signing the contracts.”

Hockaday is adamant too that tactics, formations and the nuts and bolts of coaching have been left to him entirely. It was a point Hockaday made firmly on the day of his unveiling â€" that he would pick the team and do what managers traditionally do.

“I manage the team and pick the team,” he says. “The other things, I leave to the president.

“He’s welcome to it. He’s an expert negotiator of contracts and I’m most certainly not so I wouldn’t ever expect to have a say in that.”

The players who have been at Thorp Arch this summer and who travelled to Italy for a two-week tour say pre-season has been more physical than any other they can remember.

The Italian programme included up to three sessions a day and ice baths in a river.

Nonetheless, Hockaday admits that Leeds were “playing catch-up” when they returned to England having destroyed a local amateur team and seeing a more credible friendly against a Romanian Premier League club cancelled at short notice.

“Italy came at a good time,” he says. It came literally four days after he was appointed. “There were a lot of downcast faces here after a summer of bad news, or perceived bad news, so we got away and into a bubble. We needed that. It was like breaking away from everything.

“I’d done my homework so I knew what I was coming into and if I’m being honest, it’s better here than I thought it might be.

“Financially the club seems to have sorted itself out very quickly and wherever I’ve gone the fans have been good with me. They really have.

“I understand that people have misgivings and doubts, and that’s fine. This is a big club and the supporters want to know that it’s in the right hands. Quite right. I need to earn their respect.

“I said that on day one but I can only see one way to earn their respect and that’s through the football and results. I can’t affect what people think of me now, I can’t change that. But I can do my job and do it well, and turn this into a footballing team.”

Knowing the Championship, as Hockaday says he does, is half of the battle.

The other half â€" the more complex half â€" is the creation of a team at Elland Road who sit comfortably within it.

The club finished 15th last season and were no better than that.

Cellino feared that they’d be relegated when he first began pushing his takeover in January.

Hockaday says the flamboyant Italian has asked only for “visible progress” this season. “He wants to see a philosophy here, the green shoots of recovery.”

Promotion in Cellino’s mind is set for 2016.

“We’ll sweat and bleed for the white shirt,” Hockaday says. “As a starting point, I can absolutely guarantee honest performances.”

In Leeds they say that supporters will settle for that but honesty is no long-term substitute for tangible achievements, and honest failure is wearing thin. PR is no substitute for ability either.

McDermott talked about image problems but football is not a beauty contest; it’s game where the best players and managers compare medals.

What honours Hockaday holds are largely hidden beneath a bush.

He was promoted five times as a player and has coached at the likes of Southampton, Watford, Leicester City and MK Dons.

Watford gave him the experience of coaching in the Premier League.

Hockaday is credited in part with driving the creation of academies in England but he is still a man who can arrive at a pre-season friendly against Guiseley, only to be told by the waiting steward that the car park is full and he’d be better off round the corner.

And yet, he has a quiet confidence about him.

He doesn’t accept that his appointment is the gamble so many perceive it to be.

He doesn’t accept either that scepticism of him will complicate the season ahead.

“You control the controllable,” he says. “Certain things you can’t control so you don’t try.

“I can’t talk people who are sceptical about me into believing in me overnight. Words can be quite empty but coaching, winning games â€" that I can do.”

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/leeds-united/latest-whites-news/leeds-united-hockaday-did-homework-before-accepting-the-job-1-6771153
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Quote from: Enrique on August 07, 2014, 11:00:14
En knapp times prat med David Hockaday (06.08.14) på BBC Radio Leeds:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023h31s

og litt mindre prat, men flotte vendinger med ball i hånd:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22ykrt_dave-hockaday-interview-look-north-lufc_sport

Takker!

20 minutter ut i intervjuet har han ikke tråkket feil. Det er derimot de gamle flosklene og klisjeene, men jeg biter merke i at han virkelig tar tak i behovet for elleve kapteiner på banen - ikke EN kaptein. I altfor mange år har klubben hatt totalt fravær av ledere på banen. Det symptomatiske er apatien ved baklengs; ingen som tar ballen og jogger til midten eller psyker medspillerne opp igjen.

Sier mye riktig, så får vi se om handlingene følger opp.


Ifølge David Hockaday er ikke Cellino like hensynsløs som han fremstår. Sier i intervjuet Enrique linket at det var han (David) som ikke ønsket Rossini og at MC godtok det og sendte han tilbake. Visstnok har de samtaler om spillere og så forhandler MC om pris og lønn.

Enten er DH en nikkedukke eller så fremstår MC annerledes utad. Jeg kan ikke tro at han er såpass smart at han tar all fokuset vekk fra laget og treneren (jf uttalelser om babysitting og hand holding), men kanskje er det overdrevet.

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Quote from: Asbjørn on August 09, 2014, 20:21:38
James Brown ‏@jamesjamesbrown  · 3m 
I asked Eddie Gray if he thought a better manager could do more with the current squad & he said emphatically NO


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