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Interview with Luke Steele after the NLN game at Marine. · The PCR Sports Show

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  Luke Brilliant finally get to do an interview with you where we
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  get 3 points on the road today. You must be well happy with your
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  players today. Yeah, I'm, I'm happy with
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  everybody, I think the staff and the players because one thing I
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  asked for is consistency, you know, otherwise we're doing
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  something wrong. We've come really close,
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  obviously Lemon and home and to get beat last week was a cruel,
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  cruel ending to not a bad performance.
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  Today was quite scrappy in the end but again, first half
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  really, really good so I'm pleased for everybody because
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  they deserve that. Yeah, very good first half and
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  looked like a a certainly didn't look like a team that are at the
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  bottom of the league. Lots of chances we could have
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  got in front sooner than we did. Yeah, no, I think we had five
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  chances in the first half and Theo, the new lads hit the
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  crossbar, Mark followed up and Keep made a good save.
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  A few decision making and and that composure in the box wasn't
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  there but the intensity and the endeavour certainly was and
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  everybody playing to the same game plan certainly works and
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  will work for us. So yeah, we're unlucky not to be
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  one up at half time at least. But to be honest, second-half we
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  knew they'd come out and play a lot better, which they did.
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  They were. They were a lot better at
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  switching the ball and we wrote Rose to that quite well, fought
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  our set pieces, fought off their set pieces really well and then
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  got 3 kicks in and around the box and and obviously made
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  chances with Theo and Mark as well.
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  So happy we got one in the end. So let's let's talk about Theo
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  Williams then a little bit. Only signed last night, just got
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  him in in time to to play today and made a real promising start,
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  didn't he? Very mobile at front I thought.
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  Yeah, no, he's mobile, he's young.
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  He's played this level before at Farsley and obviously got to
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  move to Kings Lynn in the summer.
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  So it was it was one of those decisions where we haven't seen
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  a lot of him. We can only go off bits and
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  bobs. But I thought I'd throw him in.
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  I thought it was a good time. It felt right.
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  Sometimes you have to make those decisions as a managers and, and
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  we we went with Mark because he played so well the other day,
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  but also Theo, you know, another fresh face.
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  And sometimes that can change the psychology of everybody.
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  And I think that that that did because you can't even think a
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  fresh faced, fresh player, you want to impress him as a player.
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  I wanted to impress new players and that's your mentality.
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  So I think it gave everybody a bit of a lift, even even though
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  he hasn't played a lot of football this season.
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  And Theo, a great chance just before half time, turned
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  brilliantly on the edge of the box and hit the bar.
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  Yeah, I mean it was a it was a great bit of play to create that
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  space. It was the only place he could
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  get because there was two players in front.
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  He put whip on it and obviously got it round, but you know, it's
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  just crashed across by like their lad in the second-half
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  with a great strike from like the halfway line.
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  But no, Theo's got that in him. We've seen what he can do.
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  He's obviously fast and he's he's looking to run in behind
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  but also drive with the ball so I'm pleased with him.
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  He's had a really good debut and obviously cramping up a little
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  bit there, which is normal. That was my question.
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  There came off on 61 minutes, Josiah Dyer coming on.
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  That was it. Was it cramp?
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  Yeah, just just hasn't started any games in the league this
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  season. Playing on a free G pitch can do
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  that as well. You know, you see the effects
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  after 60-70 minutes of running. So really professional from him
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  to signal that sort of thing. And we give the trust to all the
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  players with injuries. That's how it's always worked
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  for the last three years. So you know, that is is no
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  different with him that he he has to communicate that.
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  And we've got two really good strikers in Max and Josiah on
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  the bench. So again, that's the first time
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  we've had that in a while, having 4 strikers, you know, so
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  it's nice to have that option. And let's talk about Bailey
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  McCann and the goal then. Superb free kick.
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  Ben Menzer failed on the edge of the box.
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  Quite a few free kicks in and around that area, but he
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  certainly finished that one well, didn't he?
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  Yeah, I think it's good that, you know, it's the Ben Mencer
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  thing because he was brilliant. I mean, defensively he's come
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  into a team that of course don't have possession probably as much
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  as he's used to, but the way he tracks, the way he runs, he's a
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  fit lad. And then on the break going
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  forward without Kane, Felix, we thought we'd struggle in that
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  position, but Ben's really rose to challenges his first time
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  playing this level. But then all, all the credits
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  should go to Bailey Mechanic at the end of the day.
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  I've just said to him and there he's practiced that probably
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  since he was 3-4 years of age. Over and over again I've seen
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  him do it. Our training ground virtually in
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  the pitch black, just practising that free kick, going left,
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  going right and to be in that situation where we need a goal
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  in front of a big crowd and you know, away from home, that's
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  what happens when you practice. So I'm delighted for him and it
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  won't be his, his last one, I'm sure of that.
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  And good performances all over the pitch, like I say today, so
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  perhaps unfair to pick out players, but I really want to
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  mention Elliot Warehouse again. Superb midfield display from him
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  today and you know, close on being my man in the match I
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  think. Close.
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  Who was your man in that show? Well.
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  Bailey maybe for the goal. But oh, OK, yeah, no, I think
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  that I concur with that. I think that Elliot has been
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  really good the last few games. You know, he's strong, he's
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  experienced, he listens, his enthusiasm in and around the
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  change room is exactly what you'd expect from a 30 year old.
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  And I think he's going to get on the end of crosses and and get
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  his goals. But he knows his job in this
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  team already. I think it's brilliant for all
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  the midfielders because we've got two really young midfielders
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  in Charlie and Sam Brown and Sam Mcclintock there who's got a bit
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  more experience. But he's certainly been strong
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  for us since he's come in in on loan.
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  So I'm pleased for him to get the result because you know,
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  sometimes when you play well you don't and and those performances
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  get missed. But yeah, he he was fantastic
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  today. And just finally last 10 minutes
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  was a little bit frantic, they put a lot of pressure on but
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  defence really, really stood up well, especially crooked.
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  Some brilliant punches from inside his own 6 yard box at the
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  end there. Yeah, Crooked.
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  He's you know, he's been superb ever since we've come in.
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  He's had a rocky start this season.
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  He knows that. But he should have had a clean
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  sheet the last game. That should have been his third
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  today. But under that pressure in front
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  of this crowd, Gashi as well, they're they're warriors.
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  And I think with Ryan Fryer and his experience, you know, I'll
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  hope Ashton goes on to have that career that them two have
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  because Ashton didn't kick a ball last year.
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  He was injured. So although Gashi, Crookie, Ryan
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  get a lot of applaud at some, I'm delighted for Ashton Fox
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  because he's worked so hard to get back fit.
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  He's done his rehab from such a bad injury last year and now
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  he's back in the team getting clean sheets, which is great.
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  Brilliant. Well, congratulations Luke.
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  Brilliant performance by the team today and let's hope we've
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  turned the corner. Thank you very much.
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  Cheers.