Kim Hellberg

One pushes in, one comes over, and then your, your full-back comes in, and you've always got a back four as worst case scenario.

Stevie, what would you suggest, like, looking at the, the way Kim Hellberg wants this Mills team to play in regards to being very much on the front, front foot, and also the center-halves we have at our disposal? Would you go for a back four? Would you go for a back three?

For me, I, I don't think it really matters, but, um, we have been exposed at the back.

I feel like, um, like Luke Ayling has, has been left exposed a couple of times.

I've been mentioned in BB-pod once.

Do you remember when that was? When Kim Hellberg was there and talked about...

That he trained with me in his first training job in Kinsta.

It was a great moment when you, Kim Helberg and Patrik talked about my career in Kinsta because you were 4 in the 10th grade.

The team itself that were put out...

I mean, c- 'cause Kim Hellberg alluded that we're pretty much at full strength now.

Um, you know, all the bunch of players are pretty much coming back, um, you know, dribs and drabs.

Um, can't stand that.

We knocked the ball about for 50 minutes, probably the best that we have all season.

It, it looked like a Hellberg team.

Couple of mentions just for, for players that, that played on the night and caught the eye.

Aderson Melander, I think with his best performance in midfield.

But Boro aren't used to that.

Now, there's not m- gonna be many teams that, that come and try and play that way.

Kim Hellberg said for the neutral, fantastic game.

Obviously from a managerial or head coach perspective, there's a lot of things that you would probably be rightfully quite fuming about.

I think we've signed a very, very good footballer with Max Arftin.

I'm just not convinced that he is a left back and that Kim Hellberg is going to view him at a left back, which is frustrating in a way, but I'm, I'm gonna flip it on its head and, and be completely positive about it.

He is very, very much two-footed.

He looks so comfortable on the ball regardless of how many bodies he's got around him.

You know, we, we do try and be, like, somewhat level-headed and not just, like, make daft assessments and, and stupid statements, but there's something about the football fan in me and the type of players that I like watching that's just like, yeah, something a bit different.

Like, mix it up a little bit.

And I love watching Kim Hellberg teams.

But yeah, as I say, I think the best word I can use for this one is I'm intrigued to see how it works out.

absoluteYou know, o- one day everything will just click into place where everything is perfect and everything falls for them.

And from that moment on, they can take a huge amount of confidence and go into it and, and then hopefully from there, Kim Hellberg can, can choose a consistent sort of attacking unit that's gonna, that's gonna cut the mustard for them.

Uh, but you know, the, the options that they do have, you know, uh, you will think at o- one time a team is gonna get absolutely battered by the way that they play, the chances that they create and the, and the... ultimately the quality that they do have in that final third.

So yes, there's a little bit of a concern of performance yesterday, but like you say, with so many good teams, once it clicks, I, I don't think Barrow are gonna look back at all.

That wasn't really the case, and I, I, ugh, I do get the feeling a little bit, and th- this might seem like way over the top, and it, it's not like a huge criticism because of course we've got a lot of new players.

The caveat of Boro's performances, and especially yesterday, and I think going forward maybe it's even for a couple more weeks will probably be that- Kim Hellberg is, is still trying to find the right combinations out of the new players, giving them the relevant minutes to, to grow into this side and, and to really sort of find his feet with what he wants.

But I, I do think that was a little bit of a concern for me yesterday that there was, in the space of two games or two league games, another shape, and obviously we'll go on to the second half later, but across both games now I think it would be fair to say that we, we probably haven't quite seen the, the level of chance creation, the, the level of Hell ball, if you wanna call it that, yet.

I, I think we...

Hopefully, the likes of Alfie Jones can get some minutes.

I, I, I think Aiden Morris, judging by his performance against Blackburn, could probably do with a few extra minutes.

The likes of Austin, Kyle Joseph, all those types that Just, you know, a-a-again, another opportunity for, for Kim Hellberg to implement his ideas and, and really try and really, if I'm gonna be honest, use it as another friendly.

And having said be stubborn, experiment a little bit if he wants, 'cause that is a glorified friendly again for me.

So you use, uh, everything you can to a fault and at the same time to try to win the game and then also, um, by that giving us time to work on the training pitch to get better because that what, what we will need.

The thoughts of Borough boss and head coach Kim Hellberg there.

Um, a two-minute says speaking with our David Ladd earlier today.

John, I'll go at yourself first with some feedback on that.

So the sooner the, the transfer window closes, in my opinion, it'd be the better, better for the football club.

Tommy?

Yeah, interesting comments by, uh, Kim Hellberg, 'cause he's always looking for more, isn't he? He's always chasing.

Look, we're miles away from where we're gonna be.