Ian Holloway said that he wants all blame at Swindon Town placed on him rather than his players to help them thrive on the pitch.
Swindon head to Bradford City this weekend hoping to build on their back-to-back wins against Fleetwood Town and Wycombe Wanderers in the last week and continue their fight away from danger in League Two.
Holloway said that he was big enough to accept the blame when things went wrong as he does not want it to be impacting the players.
He said: “I am trying to build a team, good players don’t make a team, team players make a team and have we got enough of them?
“Some of these young ones coming in will understand because they haven’t had the pressure, they come in pure as snow and go ‘Wham!’ just like Billy [Kirkman] did. Joel [McGregor] too, and the whole back line were excellent.
“How many games can I say that the whole backline were excellent? The fans have noticed, moaning at Miguel [Freckleton], and moaning at Jack [Bycroft]. Stop moaning!
“Stop blaming people because it is all of us, I am not having it because it has been all of us struggling, the whole back line.
“I feel so passionately about this. We have to stop blaming people and we have to take responsibility to build a team and make them feel right.
“We have to do that, Swindon supporters have to help, that is your job.
“You have a choice to buy a ticket or not and thousands aren’t because we have been bad for so many years and I get that but I need your help and the team needs your help.
“I want to thank the people who went to Colchester and then came again at Wycombe, thank you so much because we didn’t deserve your support but I believe they have in the last two games.
“That was the moment where I wouldn’t stand for it any more and whoever you are if you have the right attitude then you will play in my team.
“But stop blaming people, if you want to blame anyone then blame me as I picked the team that was flat out.
“The pressure is vile being where we are and we need to help the players.”
When asked what he felt had changed since the defeat at Colchester United to help the team improve, he said that his experience had helped him notice things.
He said: “I know exactly what I think but do I really want to tell anyone? That is years of experience in looking at what teams are doing.
“The one or two things to change have taken me 20 years to learn and I won’t tell anyone as other people listen to what I am saying.
“In football today, without a shadow of a doubt, people put the wrong values on the wrong things at the wrong times and play themselves into terrible turmoil.
“You are paid to win games and you don’t have to win them nicely, you just have to win them.”
