Annorlunda citat från Boothroyd del 2
Andra delen av de lite lätt udda saker Aidy har sagt i media under sina första fyra månader i Colchester
"Every General needs a bunker" - om Colchesters planer att bygga en träningsarena
"You wanna play sexy football; well so do I, but you can't play sexy football in November when your pitch is wet" - Aidy försöker förklara varför spelrna inte kan passa runt bollen på marken istället för att tjonga
"I don’t want everyone to get over excited; to me the priority is to get promotion. But if we can do the double and win the FA Cup then of course that’d be great" - en lätt ironisk Aidy före FA Cup mötet med Preston ... som Colchester sedan förlorade med klara 7-0
"We have had seven goals for us against Norwich and seven against us in the defeat at Preston. At the moment we are a great Trivial Pursuit question but I want to add the ‘which team got promoted’ to the start of that question and if people get that answer, they deserve their cheese!" - Aidy klargör lite diskret målet för denna säsongen på sitt eget sätt
"The plan is to play the Yeovil game on the Tuesday if we can. But my wants and my needs don't hold much within the Dorset Constabulary, which I think it is there, so we will have to see what happens. We want to get the game on as soon as possible." - Aidy är ivrig att få den inställda matchen mot Yeovil spelad så snart som möjligt ... men Yeovil ligger i Somerset
"I'm going to offer him a new contract because I think he deserves it. Kemi is one of those players that doesn’t catch the eye of the normal man in the street. He’s not a great goal scorer, you wouldn’t say he’s a big physical presence, he’s not quick and you wouldn’t say he’s a particularly creative player." - sedan efter att han tänkt över vad han just sagt lade han till ... "I've just killed him haven't ?!" - Colchester bossen gav Izzet ett nytt förbättrat kontrakt
"I suppose it is a bit of a date that we’re having at the moment. As is usually the case, you don’t get married on a first date, you’ve got to go out a few times before you make any big decisions" - Aidy om huruvida han kommer signa Nolberto Solano eller inte ... det blev inte
"We want to play a game as soon as possible - I'd play the Local Council at snow football if I could!" - Aidy är besviken att bortamatchen mot Yeovil blev inställd på grund av snö och vill få en match så fort som möjligt för att glömma 0-7 mot Preston
"Football is like two boxers in the ring. During the course of a fifteen round fight, you know that you’ll take a few punches and that you’ll pick yourself up and go back again. Well we’ve taken a twelve punch combination in the last couple of games and now we have to cover up and come back out fighting ... Being in the brown stuff grows good people. You learn a lot in adversity - it makes you stronger and for these young men, it will make them better and stronger” - efter 7-0 och 5-0 förlusterna peppade Aidy spelarna inför bortamatchen mot Gillingham
"I'd like to be manager of Real Madrid but people don't have a go at me for that, Southampton are a big club and I'm thrilled he's ambitious” - Aidy om i fall han tog illa upp att Kevin Lisbie offentligt sagt att han mycket väl kunde tänka sig en flytt till Southampton
"As much as I enjoyed my time at Leeds ... I found myself watching a lot and carrying balls around. I was the BBC: balls, bibs and cones man” - om sin tid i Leeds
"But if we play like that, the only thing we'll be catching is the bus" - efter Colchesters bleka instans mot Leeds
"Every year a group breaks away from the rest and there's a marathon within that group. If you like we have to get on the shoulders of the Kenyans at the front and hope that our sprint finish is better than theirs" - om jakten på direktuppflyttning där Leeds, Norwich och Charlton har försprång
"There are 11 or 12 teams that could all get an automatic place or play off place. I've always been a big believer that if you aim for the ceiling, you'll bang your head” - en annan målande blid av uppflyttningschanserna
"I'd rather somebody asked me to solve the situations in Afghanistan and Iraq rather than this one!" - om Pat Baldwins situation där klubbarna kom överrens men där Baldwin valde att ej gå till Bristol Rovers och istället hamnade i Southend på lån ...
"It's fabulous if you want to grow cabbages and potatoes, but it's not particularly good for football." - om planen inför Essex derbyt mot Southend den 8 februari
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