Kennedy previews Barnsley fixture

we started the chaos of the last game in which you posted my identity you said you had a tremendous headache, that's gone, yes, that's over, there's a lot of paracetamol in the future, so I'm healthy and fine, because that game must have made. I think it was necessary, he took it away from everyone, really, um, yeah, it was very strange and I didn't feel like it was a silly game and yet there were, I don't know, 9 10 red cuts, yellow cards, three Reds, seven minutes, stoppage time first. half five second half I just didn't feel like it was that kind of game um it's hard enough playing with 10 men and then trying to figure out a game with 10 v 10 and then 10 v nine, it was like it was Uncharted Territory and it was You know, we had to keep checking and correcting ourselves and making sure we were watching the game correctly and looking for the things that were there.

I have never practiced playing with 10 men. I've heard coaches do it. I've never done it for you, so you can't let your brain rest for even a second, can you? uh no, no, I mean, it's a constant like that anyway, but in there it was almost far away to collect volumes on the side and without looking like we don't know what we're doing, but we're talking about multiple formations and like, at the same time On at least two occasions, we said you have your numbers and certain gaps and where we could hold. between us and it was just that there could be as many football games as there were numerical ones, so finding them advantages in areas was, it was strange, I think we'll touch briefly on red cards, obviously, we went through that a couple.

It was several days ago, but at that particular second, did you ever get any more clarification as to why he was kicked out? Conlon yeah, no, no, I know, I've never, ever actually talked to a referee after a game this year, it's not like that. something that I get involved in and um in terms of uh we're currently incentivized for them that's their plan so I can tell that it has nothing to do with me yeah of course but what had to do with you obviously you did. Cole getting sent off, it was good for you, I guess seeing Jordan write in action a little bit, um, yes and no, no, because it means that under the circumstances, Jordan has been a fix for us and um, and I said after try it after the game, actually you know. even when we talk to the group as a whole.

You know, Carl was in the locker room after the game, as you know, I said well done to the group, but when we talked and Jordan I made it a point to say, you know. One of the reasons Carl has been so good this year is because of how Jordan trains every day and constantly pushes and challenges them, and Carl is an exceptional goalkeeper. I think he has a great career ahead of him, but one of the reasons. He's done so well this year because of Georgian Jordan's depression, so yeah, we have the utmost confidence in Jordan.

He's been brilliant for us this year, yes, and you must be thinking about him quite a bit with Carl's time. He will come to his end shortly. Seeing him get playing time instead of just training is good for you. Yes, but no not in this situation. I mean, look, cars are number one. He has been outstanding this year. He deserves this place and the team. while playing well and with all the players, out of rotations, but you know Jordan played a lot of Cup games, Carl missed some games with real injuries, now I had a suspension, I was away with England, so Jordan had quite a few. of games for a while, but as a second goalkeeper this year, but then we know through his games last year and we have seen him daily and we know his qualities and abilities.

We'll move on for a bit. I know this is obviously your first season with the club, but when you started you were looking for certain objectives, in terms of you're going to finish the season with a higher points total than last season, that was one of your objectives in the future, no, no, in. All, uh, because I never compare myself to anyone else. I never compared the club's team to what happened before or to what perhaps, in early reflection, what might happen next. I always focused on ourselves and what we're doing, and um, you know. It's not a competition, whoever was a coach before me, who was successful or not, it was the most important thing: that Lincoln is successful and the head coaches constantly have common goals, the players come and go and the directors come and go. , but the club will always be a constant, that's how it was. always about Lincoln Lincoln City Football Club and nothing else, yes of course, so in it we will just look at the next five games and then apart from winning, what are your goals for the next five games until the end of the season, You know?

Sorry, some people build, some people have building blocks and look at the point totals and the blocks. I've never liked him as a player and we have constant dialogues with leadership groups and there is someone who walks very closely with me at the club in terms of that type of thing and we discuss things like that and it's just not me, it's not something I like to do. and we haven't put anything in, we haven't had any conversations about what we're going to do in terms of points in the next five games because the moment we look beyond the next game, we're in big trouble if we take our Eye Off The Border gas, you know we can.

I can't afford distractions, it has to be the next game and I think that serves me personally and the team really well this year, okay, we'll focus on the next game, so Barnsley, they score a lot, you defend well, how? Go up against them, an excellent team and I think Michael has been exceptional again this year, especially when you look at what he did with Cheltenham last year. You know where they finished in the league based on coursework. I think they were forced to do a second one. I won the league the year before the playoffs the year before so I'm an exceptional high level coach and really strange in fact this year I've been to a lot of games watching their next opponent um with that coming up and they always seem to be playing barley, so I "I've seen a lot of patterns this year and obviously we've played them twice, we've done well against them, we've had two good results and we go into a game expecting to win a game and we." We have a fantastic record, we are playing well, the club is in a good position, the players are also in a good mental space, so it is a game we are really looking forward to, but we have a lot of respect for Michael as a team and the great season. have had this year and this is something we seem to talk about a lot, you know you perform better against the better teams so for you this is going to be a positive mindset going into it, look we always stay the same.

In every Game Boy we've made, I actually don't think we've performed badly against the bottom half teams. I think we have had very good results and some not so good results, but there is no particular reason why we have approached each game with the same mentality, we focus a lot on ourselves and my professionalism or attitude and a demeanor when approaching each game It's been really consistent this year why we've done better against teams that you probably rank in tougher games. Don't know. I guess that's absolutely the beauty of football and one last question for me because I really need to get out of the studio so just a quick thing about Dylan Duffy, he had a great home debut and in your game afterwards you said you know. his ability is not the reason he's not playing so now he's shown it on the field we'll also see it a little bit more in the last five games yeah I hope so and that was always the plan the difficulty I've had .

What I had as a coach really is training and playing are two different things, but at some point it's fight or flight and you have to even Dylan was always going to get his chance and if someone had invested in it for a long time, so I think La Proof is in his contract of what you think of him. He has been excellent in training. I just don't think we had the right opportunity in the games to probably give him that and what he did on Saturday and what he produced and what he did. He showed it and we all know that what he has was pleasant for him more than anyone else and to see him on the field, but he is a person with reason, so he does not lack confidence, so when he has no doubts about himself and we are not just anyone , but I was happy to give him that time and like I said, it's very important that he went out on the field with Merit, it wasn't a cameo, he got it, we sent him out to win the game and I actually talked to him about me.

I'm going to say 10 minutes into the second half and I and we gave him some key points, we told him, we said you're going to come in and these are the things we had to do and he executed it fantastically so yeah, we'll see. I'm sure we'll see more of them, he's good everywhere.