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SuperGran said:
That’s what i thought too
Interesting how our media is being done in-house. E&S reporters have been with us before on pre season
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That may be covid related to be fair. In house media can probably travel and bubble with the team, E&S (or any other media) probably couldn’t.
 
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So - a couple of friendlies in - do we know what Bruno's desired style is?

Looks eerily similar to last season insofar as we struggle with 4-4-2 and then come into our own playing the 3 defender systems.

Going forward, we have some nice interplay but still seem toothless.

The goals we conceded tonight seemed to per a lot to pressing the ball high up the field and being caught hideously out of position
 
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So - a couple of friendlies in - do we know what Bruno's desired style is?

Looks eerily similar to last season insofar as we struggle with 4-4-2 and then come into our own playing the 3 defender systems.

Going forward, we have some nice interplay but still seem toothless.

The goals we conceded tonight seemed to per a lot to pressing the ball high up the field and being caught hideously out of position
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That will probably get better with practice tbf.

My worry is where do the goals come from?

I really hope we don’t buy any more bloody wingers. Trincao just looks like more of the same to me
 
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That will probably get better with practice tbf.

My worry is where do the goals come from?

I really hope we don’t buy any more bloody wingers. Trincao just looks like more of the same ro
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I presume Jimenez - easy to forget just how good he is.

As for Trincao - pre season games are never a good barometer etc. - but he does seem to be a nebulous Wolves winger. Skilful, slight, goes missing, not a huge goal threat.
 
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Unlike most other managers, Bruno has yet to comment/speak to the press since his arrival for pre-season with no comments offered after 3 pre-season games. Or have I missed them?
 
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Fifty Niner said:
Unlike most other managers, Bruno has yet to comment/speak to the press since his arrival for pre-season with no comments offered after 3 pre-season games. Or have I missed them?
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I really don't get why it's supposedly important for the head coach to be speaking to the Press regularly. The Press are only interested in quotes that they can turn into clickbait headlines and the coach isn't going to reveal anything important about his thinking as regards the squad as that would just give ammunition to our upcoming opponents. So really, what is the actual purpose of Bruno doing Press conferences? As far as I can see all it does is allow Press hacks to fill column inches whilst simultaneously getting in the way of Bruno's actual job, i.e. coaching players. When do we ever learn anything truly important by the head coach being interviewed by the media? IMV hardly ever.
 
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John de Wolf's hairdryer said:
I really don't get why it's supposedly important for the head coach to be speaking to the Press regularly. The Press are only interested in quotes that they can turn into clickbait headlines and the coach isn't going to reveal anything important about his thinking as regards the squad as that would just give ammunition to our upcoming opponents. So really, what is the actual purpose of Bruno doing Press conferences? As far as I can see all it does is allow Press hacks to fill column inches whilst simultaneously getting in the way of Bruno's actual job, i.e. coaching players. When do we ever learn anything truly important by the head coach being interviewed by the media? IMV hardly ever.
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Fair point overall but I’d very much like to hear how he responds when asked if he was pleased about the performances and especially if he is happy with the lack of transfers.

As you say, he’d probably give a routine answer but he might not. We may just be so used to Nuno’s boring responses that we forget a manager can open up a bit!
 
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Hoganstolemywife said:
I presume Jimenez - easy to forget just how good he is.

As for Trincao - pre season games are never a good barometer etc. - but he does seem to be a nebulous Wolves winger. Skilful, slight, goes missing, not a huge goal threat.
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I think Iwelumo made a good point on commentary about Trincao. In that he has had to play second fiddle and be selfless at Barca. He needs to remember how to be the main man again like at Braga.
Give him time and he should come good, let’s hope his confidence comes back sooner rather than later.
 
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John de Wolf's hairdryer said:
I really don't get why it's supposedly important for the head coach to be speaking to the Press regularly. The Press are only interested in quotes that they can turn into clickbait headlines and the coach isn't going to reveal anything important about his thinking as regards the squad as that would just give ammunition to our upcoming opponents. So really, what is the actual purpose of Bruno doing Press conferences? As far as I can see all it does is allow Press hacks to fill column inches whilst simultaneously getting in the way of Bruno's actual job, i.e. coaching players. When do we ever learn anything truly important by the head coach being interviewed by the media? IMV hardly ever.
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Fair points but the coach is the connection between club and fans.
 
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Fifty Niner said:
Fair points but the coach is the connection between club and fans.
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I would argue that the coach has more important things to do on the playing side. Being expected to be the public relations manager for the club simultaneously is frankly just a distraction from his core role and never part of the core skill set of a coach anyway. The club until fairly recently quite sensibly had someone (Laurie) doing the PR stuff but he has gone and hasn't been replaced (why?), so any connection vacuum that is now evident is frankly a Jeff Shi failing.

Of course during the season Bruno will be contractually expected to give interviews to the media (those with broadcasting rights to the EPL demand it) but unless Bruno is naïve and hasn't had any media training (and I sincerely hope neither is the case), these will just be perfunctory set piece occasions which are minimally revealing about anything important going on in training or about playing strategy.
 
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Chris H said:
That may be covid related to be fair. In house media can probably travel and bubble with the team, E&S (or any other media) probably couldn’t.
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I remember Nuno banning the media from his first pre season in Austria iirc.
 
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It would be nice to hear from him soon and his views etc. All we have had so far was a two minute clip 7 weeks ago!
 
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JOSWolf said:
It would be nice to hear from him soon and his views etc. All we have had so far was a two minute clip 7 weeks ago!
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I notice WolvesTV have interviewed players for their views on how pre-season is going, as seen with Semedo and Hoever.
So fans get feed back that way which gives a good insight, and effectively gives an update on how things are going under Bruno.
 
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GV Wolf said:
We did - he took part in a live press conference - it’s on YouTube.
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There wasn't a pandemic on at the time. But when it came to preseason training he was silent. It was part of the early tension between the E&S and the club - Spiers and Judah travelled out to the camp and couldn't get an interview.
 
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I must be one of the few, I don’t want any sound bites from him. And he’s had hardly any time with his squad to really assess anything to publicly comment.

Much rather see the videos they are releasing of training to get an idea of what they are trying to implement.

There’ll be plenty of time for the routine interviews over the course of the season.
 
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I must be one of the few, I don’t want any sound bites from him. And he’s had hardly any time with his squad to really assess anything to publicly comment.

Much rather see the videos they are releasing of training to get an idea of what they are trying to implement.

There’ll be plenty of time for the routine interviews over the course of the season.
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Completely agree
 
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Big interview? My definition of a big interview is one that's not full of meaningless platitudes.

Wolves PR / attitude to fans has been poor of late, so it is important that they are allowed to speak openly and honestly.
 
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Bacon Sandwich said:
Big interview? My definition of a big interview is one that's not full of meaningless platitudes.

Wolves PR / attitude to fans has been poor of late, so it is important that they are allowed to speak openly and honestly.
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Not sure Bruno will comment on tickets or season tickets or anything other than the team and his plans
 
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Macman said:
The Bruno interview will be good. Let's see if he opens up about ins and outs, or is the answer within...
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I am quite interested in how open he will be not very I expect knowing how fosun like to conduct transfer business
 
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SuperGran said:
I am quite interested in how open he will be not very I expect knowing how fosun like to conduct transfer business
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I feel he will tow the company line and not give much away to be honest. 'Looking forward to the challenge' type answers.
 
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