Rory Smith
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1,580 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Rory Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because I thought maybe he could present them with the style of play which they can buy into.
They can believe in, go forward onto the pitch with like extra confidence.
But...
I think in some ways it's a good case study about it.
It doesn't matter how good you are as a player.
When the confidence is down, football can be very, very tough.
And I'd say that's 14 games in 105 days without a league win.
Go on.
Yeah, I think it depends the reason for your team being in the position that they're in.
If there are real tactical issues as such, then as a consequence, you'd want somebody to come in and give the team a plan.
We've seen that historically.
Say Leicester City staying up in 2014, 2015.
I think they went to a back three or something and that helped them propel themselves forward to finish maybe 14th in that season.
But sometimes it is like, you know, how can you increase the mood?
How can you make the players sort of believe in themselves a bit more, believe in, as I say, sometimes as well, it's addition through subtraction.
And with all due respect to Hugo Chudor, I don't think he necessarily got the place to be any better throughout his tenure there.
And if anything, it felt like it went the other way.
So, yeah, I think for me personally, I always like to go on the pitch knowing that we had a plan which people believed in because then when things were tough, people could always revert back to the same thing, you know, the same belief and understanding about how to get out of the situation.
But I think you've seen the talent that they have knowing that realistically they shouldn't be that low down in the table.
And as a consequence, yeah, maybe it's just a case of continuing to have that belief, but it's very tough to do that when you're a new face and some of those players have really suffered, you know, mentally throughout the season so far.
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