Just for Gru

[Beaufighter]

Like pet dogs

Rover, fetch ball goodboy

Well, tbf, that’s basically what we want them to do

[Brin]

Well, tbf, that’s basically what we want them to do

......very good.

[millertop]

So why do you call him Warney? 😉

I’m not the professional manager so I can get away with it

[MillersTime]

The bottom of the barrel really is being scraped if some have reached the stage of moaning about the manager having nicknames for players. Because none of us do that in regular day to day life. He calls them these nicknames every day so they are a guarantee to slip out in interviews. When reading pre and post match thoughts from other clubs their managers often use nicknames also. Players also do this all the time when being interviewed with a fellow player rather than alone.

To try and bash PW with this is laughable.

[wrinkly]

The bottom of the barrel really is being scraped if some have reached the stage of moaning about the manager having nicknames for players. Because none of us do that in regular day to day life. He calls them these nicknames every day so they are a guarantee to slip out in interviews. When reading pre and post match thoughts from other clubs their managers often use nicknames also. Players also do this all the time when being interviewed with a fellow player rather than alone.

To try and bash PW with this is laughable.

Absolutely!

The post links to an article about what a great professional Richard Wood is (a viewpoint I totally agree with).
Instead of commenting on that point we have posters whinging about our manager using nicknames.
I find the nickname stuff a bit daft to be honest but that's footie. Nobody does it more than Neil Warnock but I don't recall him ever getting stick about it.

[MillersTime]

Absolutely!

The post links to an article about what a great professional Richard Wood is (a viewpoint I totally agree with).
Instead of commenting on that point we have posters whinging about our manager using nicknames.
I find the nickname stuff a bit daft to be honest but that's footie. Nobody does it more than Neil Warnock but I don't recall him ever getting stick about it.

Unfortunately I only managed to read the first paragraph as I have ad blockers on so they have limited access for me. I can imagine what he says and I think most of us would agree. Did he say anything that particularly stood out?

[avondalemiller]

Unfortunately I only managed to read the first paragraph as I have ad blockers on so they have limited access for me. I can imagine what he says and I think most of us would agree. Did he say anything that particularly stood out?

Millers, when the pop-up come on informing you that your Ad-blocker is on, look closely and you can click the " proceed with ad- blocker on"..... now you can read it all.......happy reading pal.

[clarkey1974]

During the game I am sure the Majority of fans use nicknames/abbreviations/acronyms during encouragement or frustration
Shouts…

[Masbroughstreet]

The bottom of the barrel really is being scraped if some have reached the stage of moaning about the manager having nicknames for players. Because none of us do that in regular day to day life. He calls them these nicknames every day so they are a guarantee to slip out in interviews. When reading pre and post match thoughts from other clubs their managers often use nicknames also. Players also do this all the time when being interviewed with a fellow player rather than alone.

To try and bash PW with this is laughable.

I agree, the over analysing of every little thing Warne ever says to try and turn it into something negative is getting embarrassing and that's without even mentioning the complete *******s that gru comes out with.

[CTMilller]

Thought that was an interesting article about the respect Paul Warne has for Richard Wood.

The OP’s comment was amusing in that it pokes gentle fun at Gru’s well known opinion of Woody.

I don’t get the negatives about using nicknames. Should Warney behave like an old style grammar school headmaster and start calling every player by his surname?