Roeder: "I Will See Out The Job"

Last updated : 06 November 2006 By Footy Mad - Editor

...  the shock result on Saturday that takes his team to second bottom in the Premiership.

Roeder: "I do not feel under pressure, no. I have been around too long. I do not feel under pressure whatsoever. If I do not feel under pressure, I am not fearful of my job.

"Who was it - Alan Ball - a number of years ago who said 'It is all very well me having to pick the players up, who picks the coaches up?' That is not a problem for me.

"Yes I heard the fans' protest. I would be a liar if I said I did not hear them. Of course I heard them - and the players heard them as well.

"But, in capital letters, the responsibility for results is mine and nobody else's - and that is how it should always be with a manager.

"Glenn Roeder has stood up all his life and he will always stay standing up whatever happens to him. Three-and-a-half years ago, I was flat on my back. I am standing up now, and it is great to get out of bed every day.

"I am not happy - really unhappy - with this situation. It is not nice - but it needs someone with broad shoulders; it needs players with broad shoulders.
They must not stand behind me - I will not let them stand behind me - they have to stand alongside me and come out fighting.

"It is certainly the poorest the team has played since I was put in charge at the beginning of February. There is nothing else that comes even close to that."