Joey, with players coming back and having more selection decisions, in second half of last season I think you knew what your best team was and you’d tinker a little bit and change for certain matches, but how key is it trying to do something similar now and pin down your best 11-13 players?
Yeah, I think you’re always striving to get that. In reality, teams that I’ve been part of when I’ve been successful, it’s a marathon, it’s a long, hard slog, and I think last year we were a powerhouse in the division with the level of personnel we recruited over the two windows. I felt we had a really strong group for the level.
This year, we’ve gone up a level, so there are different challenges out there. I always want my teams to be tactically fluid so they don’t have to play one shape. I think it’s very important in the modern game, and maybe that’s just me being a modern coach, but I want to coach my players to be tactically fluid so we can change shape because that’s how I played the game.
