{"id":18053,"date":"2011-04-06T04:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18053"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"rodgers-well-never-throw-towel-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2011\/04\/06\/rodgers-well-never-throw-towel-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodgers &#8211; We&#8217;ll Never Throw Towel In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City manager told the Evening Post &quot;When the players reflect on Preston there is disappointment of course<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But one of the great strengths of this group is the way they go again after a bad result. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;You can be sure they will never throw the towel in &mdash; the players have proved that over the course of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#39;s in the make-up of this group and that ability to bounce back has been a big part of our success.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I felt for the supporters after Preston. We had a wonderful turn-out up there and we didn&#39;t give them the result they wanted.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But they can rest assured that our motivation will be renewed for Norwich. We will get the smile back on the players&#39; faces and then we will look to win the game.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Some of our performances this season, especially at home, have been magnificent,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Look at Nottingham Forest in our last game at the Liberty &mdash; we were outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We have to narrow our focus now and concentrate on the next game.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And we have to get back to our mentality of getting the nuts and bolts right and keeping clean sheets.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#39;s okay being fluent offensively, but we must be defensively strong as well.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#39;m talking about everybody, not just the back four and the keeper.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We were not in our shape as a team at Preston and we need to change that against Norwich. We have to get what I call our ruthless simplicity back.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City manager told the Evening Post &quot;When the players reflect on Preston there is disappointment of course &quot;But one of the great strengths of this group is the way they go again after a bad result. &quot;You can be sure they will never throw the towel in &mdash; the players have proved that [&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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18053","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=18053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}