NTT20 Pod Meets: Richie Wellens

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4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Ali sat down to get to know Richie Wellens and hear about his experiences in football. Below is a list of topics with timecodes: 00:00 - introduction 02:00 - Describing himself as a player 4:30 - Coming through at Manchester United & taking things for granted! 08:00 - Move to Blackpool to make first steps in senior football & 5 years there. 10:45 - Move to Oldham & two seasons there. 12:30 - Finding success at Doncaster with Sean O'Driscoll & James Coppinger! 18:30 - Transfer to Leicester, playing under Sven Goran Eriksson. 22:30 - How he moved into coaching 26:00 - Working as First-Team Coach under John Sheridan at Oldham 27:30 - Becoming Oldham manager as caretaker & early success 30:30 - Mistakes made in early days at Oldham 31:45 - ‘Managing upwards’ at Oldham 32:45 - Players being signed he hadn’t heard of at Oldham 35:15 - Appointment at Swindon and reflections on first three months 38:00 - Discussion about style of play / footballing philosophy 41:00 - Making sure you are defensively sound as a technical, possession based team 43:40 - Adapting to the opposition game-by-game 46:00 - Why he missed Michael Doughty's panenka vs MK Dons! 47:45 - Whether he is interested in analytics: expected goals and other performance metrics. 49:30 - Having his first summer transfer window - what's he targeting? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So delighted to be sitting here with the newest subject of NTT20 meets, and it's Ritchie Wellins.
0:29.1	Richie was a central midfield player, professional footballer who had a career spanning over 15 years, more than 700 first-team appearances in English football, starting with one off-the-bench
0:39.1	for United, Manchester United, which we'll touch on, to longer spells at Blackpool, Oldham,
0:44.0	Doncaster, Leicester, Doncaster again, and then some shorter spells at the end of his career with
0:49.0	Shrewsbury, Solford and Macclesfield. Moving into coaching and now management, Richie took over
0:53.3	Oldham last season, when
0:55.2	bottom of league one took 46 points from 36 games before suffering relegation on final day. And
1:03.2	having left Oldham at the end of the season, he's back in business with Swindon in November. So
1:08.4	far, 26 points from 16 league games.
1:11.2	15 league games.
1:12.3	Because the first one I didn't really take the team.
1:15.6	Was that Carlisle?
1:16.4	That was Carlisle.
1:17.1	I beat 4-0, so I'm trying to avoid that one.
1:19.8	I just got here and just decided to go with a previous team from the previous week.
1:24.5	Didn't have much time to work on anything tactical,
1:26.5	so just said you won't the week before against Woking the Cup.
1:32.2	Same system, same personnel.
1:35.0	And we played really well to be, backfired in terms of the scoreline massively.
1:39.0	And Carlisle this season?
1:40.7	Yeah, they can win six and a bounce,
1:42.1	and then they'll lose four in a bounce.
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