Paul Jewell Quotes (42 Quotes)

We haven't got that killer instinct. I'm fed up of throwing games away.

David is a great passer of the ball with lots of Premiership experience. He has quick feet and the ability to unlock defenses with his passing range and eye for the goal.

We were hopeless in the first-half, nowhere near our best and insipid, but better in the second-half and it was more like a Cup-tie and I thought we might just nick a goal to win it.

I don't know what the situation is (with Camara). He was booked on a flight yesterday (Friday). I don't want to say too much at the moment.

We've asked again but with the price they're asking, it's silly money as they don't want to sell him. I understand that. Just because we're doing well and because the chairman (Dave Whelan) has got a few quid, I'm not going to pay too far over the odds for players, and at that price we won't be interested.

Getting in the Premiership with this club was a wonderful achievement for everybody - and if we can manage to stay in it, then that would be even greater. This is a bit of a bonus really.

If we can stay up in this league, then anything is a bonus, ... That's not negative, that's realistic. But we've made a really good start.

It's wonderful really. We wanted to reach 40 points after 38 games, to get it after 27 is a tremendous achievement but we won't be resting on our laurels.

Henri has signed his contact and passed his medical. This is great news for us to get another top quality striker to add to the quality forwards we already have here.

Jimmy's down talking to Fulham at the moment. He had a clause in his contract. I'm really disappointed to lose him, but he's been a fantastic player for us.

They have that asset of blistering pace. Coming into the Premiership the most difficult thing is to score goals but they always looked a threat tonight.

He is a great character and I've enjoyed working with him. We've parted on good terms and both the club and I wish him all the very best for the future.

I don't think he needs to prove anything to anybody. Anyone who has a modicum of common sense, or a modicum of football knowledge knows that. They're still third in the table, yet they are supposed to be in a crisis - a bit like ourselves, despite the fact we're seventh with 25 points.

I said to the lads before the game that people are saying nice things about us. We are not used to that so we have got to make sure we don't believe them. But we don't have to prove anyone wrong.

As well as spirit, I thought we played good football - although we should have made their goalkeeper work harder.

We know Bolton's strengths, they've done fantastically well, and we know we have to compete. If we want to win, we have to compete in the battle, and if you don't compete against Bolton, then they will blow you away. We've got to make sure we're competitive.

We started brightly enough, but again we make a mistake and when you do that you get punished at this level,

It's a good derby, so it'll be a good atmosphere, and as well as competing we've got to make sure we play as well. We have to stop them but we've got to be able to express ourselves. I thought we did that against Everton in the second half, but we did not do that particularly well in the first half, but we grew in confidence in the second half.

I thought we did all right but we've been done by a set-piece. We looked solid and they had to change their shape at halftime.

I think everyone is fit, Pollitt felt some pain in his achilles yesterday but I think he will be OK, so it looks like we've got a full complement.

I spoke to my chairman two days ago, and he is in Barbados, but he never mentioned playing golf with anyone from Newcastle.

We're not talking about Europe. We don't want to talk about what is ahead of us. What we have done is earned the right for people to talk about us that way, although we won't be getting carried away.

We gifted them a goal and from 1-0 down we are left chasing the game. We have made mistakes in the last two matches now. They happen, but we have to cut them out. It's still a learning curve for us at this level.

Last week we were smashing, today we were not so good. We need to get something in between.

We obviously can't compete with the big clubs trying to sign world class stars, but we've already identified some very good players and we'll see what happens.

Jimmy is talking to them and I'll be disappointed to lose him. But we had to have the clause as he'd have otherwise been out of contract.

We need to score more goals, and this is the hardest league in the world to score goals in.

It could have been worse, it could have gone to extra-time,

I'm sick for the players and sick for the supporters. You could see from the way they United celebrated that they knew they had got out of jail. We were outstanding, but the best teams are always the luckiest. They've had one shot on target all night and won 2-1, so work that one out.

There is a lot of goodwill towards us, but only because people don't see us as a threat,

I told Henri I wasn't happy that he didn't make it back for match but I want him fully focused and committed for the massive games we have coming up.

It doesn't happen by luck or accident, ... There's an awful lot of planning. I want us to play with a freedom that is organized - but we're not basking in what has happened so far. We won't be resting on our laurels, and if any player thinks differently, I will act on it.

Overall, I thought we were more than worth a point, we showed great determination and desire not to lose the game.

The last time we were in the fourth round, I played.

I hate losing, but we gave everything we had. They were just too good for us. No complaints from me. The better side won.

If I was managing Chelsea, people wouldn't be saying Paul Jewell was a nice guy, they would be saying I had too much money to spend. On balance, I would quite like it at the end of the season if people don't like us.

You have to be disciplined because if you lose your discipline and lose your shape, we're playing against better players, so they'll take advantage.

He will bring us a new dimension, and add competition to the squad which we need at the present time. Neil is a good young striker who is looking for a chance to prove himself again at this level. He is strong and skilful with an eye for goal.

You have to take this game in context. We haven't got a striker in the building so we weren't going to make many chances, but we pushed them all the way. This is a team who were in the Second Division three years ago and now we are losing 1-0 to the European champions.

We will have to rotate because there were a lot of tired legs after the game and there simply isn't the recovery time. The side we put out will be going to win the game.

At the moment we are asking people to play in strange positions, but the players deserve great credit for coping with that.

I thought it was a bit unsporting by Chelsea and my lads tell me it was their manager who told them to do that.