Phil Brown Quotes

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We've got 8 points from 4 games. That's automatic promotion form.

Phil Brown
At this moment in time, it's pointing in the direction that the players aren't good enough, to be able to (i) take on the instructions that we give them and (ii) deal with the situation when the pressure is turned up - and it's disappointing. OK, there's a disappointing group of players in there but you keep on shooting yourself in the foot week in and week out. Something has to change.

Phil Brown
You get pictures in pre-season. You get pictures of fitness, you get pictures of attitude, you get pictures of mentality, you get pictures of systems and the way players play and you also get pictures of whether people can step up to the plate in the Premier League. I was getting all those pictures in the first half

Phil Brown
You have to be horrible when you haven't got the ball.

Phil Brown
He will hopefully bring a mentality in both penalty boxes.

Phil Brown
The lads are on top of the ground at the moment and they look as though they're looking forward to tomorrow.

Phil Brown
Nick has thrown his hat into the ring and I've had a long chat with him

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The fans were asking me "was I watching?". Of course I was watching.

Phil Brown
It's my job not always to put square pegs in square holes but sometimes to put the odd square peg in a round hole.

Phil Brown
In any game, you get pictures and at half time there were 11 players who had half a shirt for Saturday.

Phil Brown
Seriously if I had a gun I would have shot the plane down.

Phil Brown
The way the game is, players come to a football club with baggage. Whether that's positive or negative, they come to a new club with some luggage. Tony's baggage over the last four or five years has been not playing so many games at Tottenham.

Phil Brown
We were very hopeful of getting Fraizer all the way through. We'll keep in-house what went on, but we were involved with Fraizer until the moment he went to Tottenham.

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If I get the good pictures I was getting at the beginning of the season, Lee Holmes will be knocking at the door.

Phil Brown
It was his elbow. He landed on his elbow. I've just had a little joke with Andy. He went on and pulled off the best two headers of the game with an injured shoulder, arm, whatever it was.

Phil Brown
Dean Marney has also thrown his hat into the ring after Saturday. The more hats there are in the ring, the harder my job is

Phil Brown
They know, in that changing room, that the strength is that changing room.

Phil Brown
He had his hands full with Adi Akinbiyi when he came on, he had his hands full with Andy Gray from the start and in other ways he had his hands full with Kyle Lafferty and Robbie Blake as well. He's had four or five strikers coming at him and he's stood up to them manfully.

Phil Brown
That's a lot of hard work gone under the water, under the bridge.

Phil Brown
We gave ourselves a hill to climb and we climbed it.

Phil Brown
I know my best team, but my best team has got 15 players in it.

Phil Brown
Inigo limped out of training but it was a precautionary limp out.

Phil Brown
All the boxes are ticked. The yeses and the positives are coming back from the medical department.

Phil Brown
I remember being asked at various stages last season "Would you take 17th place now?". Come the last game of the season, the answer was definitely yes. At the start of the season, then the answer was probably yes. But looking back at the season as a whole, then the answer is probably between yes and no.

Phil Brown
The players have got to know that we are not firing at them by the seat of our pants.

Phil Brown
The other night was like when my daughter was being born and I was in the waiting room. You are waiting for good news and obviously the good news didn't come through this time.

Phil Brown
It was a fantastic result and credit has to go to the players. The application they have shown since I got the job has been first class. They've just asked for four or five days off this week, but I've said I want them back in on Tuesday.

Phil Brown
Those are the pictures you want from pre-season, so although we beat a Premiership side, I can take those away with me.

Phil Brown
There was pride in the shirt. There was sweat in the shirt. There was blood in the shirt.

Phil Brown
The way they questioned my decisions was absolutely disgraceful.

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