Alan Sheehan

There you go.

And, um, Alan Sheehan.

You know? We had some real aggression about us and we had a philosophy and it was we will just not be beaten and I think Nathan Jones's was if you can't win it, don't lose it.

And at the moment if we can't win it let's just lose it really badly.

Say the board did do something that none of us are expecting and they did let Jack go and the only way forward would be you get someone in this...

It's not gonna be a glamorous you know appointment.

You get someone in this league, someone who knows this league brilliantly and is experienced in it and knows what it takes or you go down the route of Alan Sheehan someone who knows us as a club traditionally and has played for us and been in this sort of position with us from a player and then you know a senior player at the same time.

Yeah.

'Cause of course he, he was the player that we signed in January, but he was still on loan until the summer, so we didn't actually get to see him in- originally when we signed, um, when we first paid for him.

Uh, Alan Sheehan decided he wasn't good enough for the team, remember, the, the beginning of last season, and he wasn't getting in the matchday squads and, and all the rest of it.

So perhaps it took him a little bit longer to get going in terms of-

He struggled

But the difference with Adam Ida this season is that he's not just a big man up front, he's getting involved in the link-up, he's holding it up and that actually translated to...

the Republic of Ireland over the window which we did speak about last week and spoke about during the window as well a different side to him maybe someone we sort of looked at as that hold up guy and looking to get on the end of chances just maybe kind of not misprofiling him but looking at him as ok he's a big lad he should be able to do that but he's doing that and more now so really encouraging stuff from his perspective I mean when me and you sat here pre-season and spoke with some guys we wanted to have big seasons who we thought would have good seasons Adam Eadie was someone I mentioned as it being a pretty pivotal moment for him as far as he's kind of in there now he's had a pre-season he hasn't been injured over that period of time and could he go and kick on now it looked like Zamba Potnick who was the top scorer in the championship last season was going to move on was going to sign for Hull that didn't come to fruition and Swansea had sort of pre-empted that and brought in Ross Stewart who is well capable of scoring 15-20 goals in the Championship and has done in the past if he can keep his injuries away but at the minute Adam Ead is keeping both of them out of the side Vipotnik came on after 63 minutes and played the rest of the game out and was decent but I think Adam Ead is a little bit more well-rounded than Vipotnik but just maybe doesn't have the same killer instinct that he does but if he can keep chipping in with the goals and contributing to the team as a whole maybe more than Vipotnik does that can only be a good thing with Vitor Matos at the helm you might be slightly familiar with him Liverpool Yeah, he was involved with Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool at the time and went over to Portugal and, of course, replaced Alan Sheehan from

Atalone,

who was managing Swansea

You, you should have got playoffs ultimately when he was here, but he didn't.

Um, and then afterwards we had Alan Sheehan, perhaps was a little bit more defensive as well, who's the one that was before, um, Matos.

So I think Matos has been brought in with the intention of playing the Swansea way.

I think that is part of the interview process.

Um, and, and we all just were led to believe probably was because they were, you know, protecting the asset, and you can't blame them to be honest, when you've got that sort of money on the line.

And Ademida was actually signed last summer to, to kind of be that striker.

It's just Laportnik seemed to not like that and decided he was gonna show everyone that he was able to stay at the club, 'cause he nearly left last summer, um, because it didn't work out, let's say, and he wasn't necessarily A- uh, Alan Sheehan's favorite at the time.

Um, so yeah, Ida started the season probably because of fitness regarding Laportnik, but he's done really well, and I think it's hard to sort of take the shirt away from him when he's, he's kind of earned, he's earned that place in the team now.

Um, and just get someone dancing yak again.

If, if Tom continues to win games, why should we look for anyone else? Um, there's an interesting one, just as an alternative really here, because a lot of people did say, "Well, you know, if Tom's winning games, why do we change things?" Um, Crow Wick says, "Alan Sheehan for me," who actually replaced Duff at Swansea, which is an interesting one, young coach coming up.

Another one, uh, another name which I find very interesting.

It was actually mentioned when, um, briefly.

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Um, see Alan Sheehan at Swansea last season.

Is James Morrison about to, um, be the exception that proves the rule?

I think so.

You- they generally, they obviously are, are interested in playing possession football.

You know, that was a big stick that Mike Duff was beaten with and, and Sheehan more recently that they, they weren't doing that.

They've had the third highest possession average in the league this season.

Uh, and they're, they're doing it with a great style.

They're another, um, of these-- the sort of hat trick of teams that we want to highlight that have, that have broken out from, from the middle bunch.

Probably in my mind, George, and I think you felt similar, probably one of the hardest teams to analyze and to place in the one to 24s because they showed obviously great form under James Morrison, um, to get out of the relegation trouble they were in last season.

But there's always a question mark how, how sustainable is that? I mean, talk about Swansea, obviously they appointed Alan Sheehan in sim- similar circumstances and then sacked him by November.

So how repeatable was, was the success that they'd had under Morrison? How sustainable was it? Got a lot of young players, you know, they had to very much ev- uh, evolve that squad.