Quote Originally Posted by Jeterpool View Post
And am I reading the section italicized correctly? Is he embarrassed because of the reaction the crowd gave the players, or is he embarrassed because the team performance resulted in said reaction? Granted, it's a quoted section in a news article - clearly could have been taken out of context.
From memory he did say something along those words, but in the context of what he was saying in general it was more of the latter option. I think I recall him saying something like, it was disappointing for the fans to have that reaction but after the performance they had every right to do that, and that he was embarrassed as he's never had to sit through a performance like that.

In the press conference he also got asked why he didn't bring Flores on and I believe his reasoning was, in going to the 4-4-2, he thought the midfielder coming on needed to be doing a lot more work and running so he opted for Welsh over Flores for that.

Another thing he touched on a couple of times was that he was a lot more concerned with the attitude and effort rather than the skills aspect of the performance, sounds like he's trying to play the old underdog, "our squad has less quality than everyone else's" card. Am I alone in thinking that our player list doesn't actually look that bad? Before the season and even after a couple games I was thinking once everyone is actually right to play we should be looking decent. Attending my first game on Friday made me doubt my resolve a little though lol.