Tyrone Mings

[brontebilly]

Mings interviewed for the Express and Star. Article behind paywall, so have transcribed the majority of it.

As ever, a superb representative for this club.



“The manager doesn’t really like to speak too much after games. But I felt he thought at that point it was important to mention we had not won at Wolves in any of the other seasons he had been at the club but we still achieved our goals.

He knew the performance was not a good one, the result was not a good one and it was a good time to speak and add some reason to the emotion.

Understandably, there were a lot of upset players in the dressing room, knowing what the game meant in the context of our season but also to the fans.

We fell below that and the manager let us know we will fix it on the training pitch, fix it in the next game.

Ultimately that is what we will be judged on. Where do we finish after being in such a good position for such a large part of the season?

If we had been 17th or 18th for most of it and finished sixth, people would presume that was a good season. If we had been third all season and finished sixth, they would have a slightly different view.

Obviously, we want to finish in the Champions League spots. That is what we would deem a success.

I think the subplots, at this point of the season, always make for interesting headlines, if you lose a game now it is catastrophic because of the ramifications for Champions League qualification.

We have been in the position before when relegation was a threat. You lose and it is ‘oh, now we are definitely getting relegated’ or ‘now we are definitely going to drop out of the top-five’.

So it is important to try and block all that out and take results for what they are.

I know people will hate me for saying this but at this stage of the season I don’t see there being a bad point.

People will look at times we have played teams lower than us in recent weeks and picked up a point, there are times in that game when the mentality gets you through, rather than tactics and that can’t be a bad thing.

I was speaking to Morgan (Rogers) the other day about peaks and troughs within the season. Usually, it is the people who can keep their head in the bad times who can work their way out of it.”

Sometimes you have to go to those places, to have those bad results like Wolves to think ‘this is getting away from us’ or ‘teams are catching us’ or this is not as easy or simple as we thought it might be.

I am not saying you would ever ask for bad things, or bad results, or bad performances. But when you find yourself in the middle of a bad run, you have to find something else, another way of competing or picking up a result."

We are conscious of what is on the line. Obviously, we are not privy to the ins and outs of financial decisions.

But we can see the knock-on effect of decisions which are happening in the boardroom, to what you see on the pitch. You see the club not making the signings that everyone else in the top-four, five or six are making, or are able to make.

People like to point to the fact we can probably play a team at the moment which was here four years ago in the starting XI. That probably highlights the difficulty in recruitment over that period. But some appreciation for what the players who have been here for a long period of time have achieved would be nice as well.

£70m players don’t guarantee success. £50m, £60m, £70m players, people would go ‘oh wow we have brought this player’. But that new shiny toy isn’t always as reliable as the one which has delivered consistent success."

Reads like a call to put me in coach!

[ChicagoLion]

What a very sensible and measured statement.
Top bloke.

[Percy McCarthy]

What a very sensible and measured statement.
Top bloke.

Spot on.

[Border villan]

Thoughtful and articulate.

[KevinGage]

Smart from Mings,

But then it usually is.

Obv he might have no interest at all in staying in the game when his playing career ends. Believe he has a few different business interests on the go (which he started before his time with us, even).

But would be great if he could remain with the club in some capacity.

European sides often have a bright, youngish ex player as Director of Football or similar.

[eamonn]

Looks like doing the interview worked and he's back in the side woop-woop!

[Mellin]

As he should be. He's still our best defender, as in the actual defending part. We're going to be doing a lot of that for the rest of the season. Protect the clean sheet.

[Rigadon]

Mings manages to speak intelligently and without cliches.  I can imagine him being a really cool team mate. 

[PeterWithesShin]

Mings manages to speak intelligently and without cliches.  I can imagine him being a really cool mate. 

FTFY

[Beard82]

Dougie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[brontebilly]

It's over for Mings at the highest level.

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

Yep sad sight, an absolute exhibition in how not to defend.

[colin69]

Mings was nowhere near the worst player on the pitch tonight.

[PaulWinch again]

No but he’s not good enough to be starting.

[brontebilly]

Mings was nowhere near the worst player on the pitch tonight.

Onana wins those competitions each week but Mings was annihilated tonight. Any thought Mings makes much more defensively secure evaporated tonight.