JJB’s vocabulary. : Sat Apr 02, 2022 11:45 am  

I’ve heard some words and euphemisms I’ve never heard in any professional sport capacity. Thought it would be fun for us to compile a list of JJB’isms.
I’ll start with
‘Idolatry’- (the worship of idols.)
How he got that into the latest post match interview I’ll never know.

Re: JJB’s vocabulary. : Sat Apr 02, 2022 12:36 pm  

"Upmost Reverance"

Re: JJB’s vocabulary. : Sat Apr 02, 2022 12:38 pm  

Few more to muse over……

‘Some of the lads looked spiritually dead.
JJB the Messiah?

‘They were going at each other like little angry men. Little angry lemmings’
We know the JJB family likes video games…..

‘Don’t talk ‘fluff, speaking for the sake of speaking’
Maybe needs to look inward on this one.

Sezer didn’t play because we didn’t want him to get ‘upset and angry’.
WTF?

‘We need to stick our heads above the proverbial fox hole’
Do foxes live in holes? Did he mean rabbit hole?

The game is ‘war played out on a dance floor’
That’s actually deep and genius!

Re: JJB’s vocabulary. : Sat Apr 02, 2022 12:38 pm  

Marty Grrrrrrrrrr! wrote:

"Upmost Reverance"

As opposed to low level reverence I guess!

Re: JJB’s vocabulary. : Sat Apr 02, 2022 1:12 pm  

He`s becoming a laughing stock just like the team.
JJB thinks he`s something that he`s not.

Re: JJB’s vocabulary. : Sat Apr 02, 2022 1:14 pm  

chapylad wrote:

He`s becoming a laughing stock just like the team.
JJB thinks he`s something that he`s not.

Come on mate. Can’t you see the genius in some of his words? The prophet? Dare I say it……..’The Messiah!’

Re: JJB’s vocabulary. : Sat Apr 02, 2022 1:25 pm  

chapylad wrote:

He`s becoming a laughing stock just like the team.
JJB thinks he`s something that he`s not.

I think the club thinks he is too, to quote Alan Partridge, ‘ Sorry, that was just a noise.’ , but with JJB you get some biblical reference too…

I can’t listen to it.

Re: JJB’s vocabulary. : Sat Apr 02, 2022 1:59 pm  

I avoided listening but it wasn't as bad as I'd feared. He uses way too many metaphors but he was quite honest about things not being good enough and needing players to work with each other to sort things out. The other thing he needs to stop doing is referring to himself and his own experiences all the time - I'm quite sure Wayne Bennett never references his life or career when talking to players, and if I were a 20-year old it would be the last thing I'd care about anyway.

But he's a tyro coach in a no-win position. I wish him well as long as he's coach, but he really needs to go and learn his trade somewhere else if he wants to be a coach.

Re: JJB’s vocabulary. : Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:13 pm  

I’m waiting for references to the knights templer, and god’s grace.

Re: JJB’s vocabulary. : Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:26 pm  

Under his eye more like…