by Beefymcfc » Sat Mar 09, 2013 12:11 pm
Douglas Higginbottom wrote:Mase wrote:Douglas Higginbottom wrote:I hate them except when Platt does them as he understands clearly what the reporter is trying to get as an answer and avoids it.Mancini is close to the opposite. Mancini gets close to saying nothing but does drop in things he shouldn't say like, yes we are looking to get rid of Dzeko, even if he does try to back off that later.Damage done.
Do you not think he's being sarcastic? Like last season telling the press the rags had won the league even when we'd won it!
No I don't.The rag stuff last year wasn't sarcasm imo .It was a mixture of the truth plus taking the pressure off us and putting it on them.
There are times when he tries sarcasm as a joke but too often I don't think he is clear on what he is being asked and gives answers he shouldn't.That and the fact that he has a number of stock phrases he uses about players and teams and managers it's almost not worth having the press conference.That's as much down to the patheticness of the reporters asking inane questions but I don't think he helps.
That's why I like them Doug, it's actually the uselessness of the journo's that make them. Take yesterdays presser for example, I tuned in to see what he had to say about Barnsley yet when they broke the clips down there was only about 3 minutes on the actual game. The rest was full of inane questions about Rooney, Ronaldo, Nani etc which Mancini just shuts off to and gives the basic blag. It's not about the content for me, it's more like a game of cat and mouse and watching for where Mancini drops stuff.
Very entertaining at times.
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