{"id":16982,"date":"2009-12-17T03:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T03:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16982"},"modified":"2020-12-16T21:15:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T21:15:18","slug":"pratley-not-writing-off-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/12\/17\/pratley-not-writing-off-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratley Not Writing Off Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday find themselves in the bottom three of the Championship and this week sacked Brian Laws from their managerial seat.<\/p>\n<p>But despite finding themselves in a significantly better position than their weekend hosts, Swans midfielder Darren Pratley is refusing to write off Wednesday and told the Evening Post<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always going to be tough against a team that hasn&#8217;t got a manager,&#8221; said the midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The players need to do well to show they are good enough for the club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They want to impress potential managers that are in the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will be giving an extra 10 per cent, and we will have to match that \u2014 maybe a bit more \u2014 because they will be fired up for this because of the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will have to deal with quite a bit of pressure, but we are used to that. Hopefully it will see a different reaction from us.<\/p>\n<p>They have to start getting results, and they will be looking to do that starting on Saturday,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When teams are losing the confidence is low, but they will be ready to scrap it out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We saw the same kind of thing at Barnsley and Peterborough as they had just installed a new manager and they were throwing everything at us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Wednesday are a massive club and have a lot of history behind them. They have a lot of good players and I&#8217;m surprised they are down there,&#8221; added Pratley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think they will go down. They have plenty of games to come and a few wins will send them flying up the league as it&#8217;s so tight.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday find themselves in the bottom three of the Championship and this week sacked Brian Laws from their managerial seat. But despite finding themselves in a significantly better position than their weekend hosts, Swans midfielder Darren Pratley is refusing to write off Wednesday and told the Evening Post &#8220;It&#8217;s always going to be tough against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}