Dervite says Whites can sting Bees

DORIAN Dervite is confident Wanderers will not dwell on their latest capital punishment and produce a response against city slickers Brentford.

Defeat at Charlton stung the former Valley favourite more than most but unlike the pounding the Whites took at Fulham recently, Frenchman Dervite insists there are reasons to be cheerful despite the first negative result Neil Lennon’s reign.

“We spoke after the Fulham game and we knew we needed to do more, that the performance was not good enough,” he told The Bolton News. “But that game was more frustrating because we have come off the pitch thinking we have played well. It is so close.

“If we make better decisions in the final third of the pitch we will be fine.

“It is a question of finding a way to score.

“We need to help ourselves, make sure things go more in our favour, and we will be okay.”

The focus fell once again on Wanderers’ attacking deficiencies on Tuesday night with Lennon pointing out that both the goals scored thus far in his time with the club have been scored by defenders, Matt Mills and Dean Moxey.

“We have spoken about that in the dressing room and the lads know where we have got to improve,” he said.For all the good football played at The Valley the end result was just as fruitless as that at Craven Cottage. Now with West Londoners Brentford making their first-ever trip to the Macron Stadium tomorrow, Dervite is hoping the manager’s message sinks in fast.

“I think we put a good team out but we need to make better decision to help ourselves get a start in the game. We played so well early on against Charlton but the game stayed at 0-0.

“Maybe that is something we can work on in training, maybe it is something we have to look at ourselves? “Either way we want to get back out there and start playing again.”

Lennon’s terse assessment of the defeat on Tuesday night will hopefully prove a wake-up call for a side who thought their luck had changed with victory over Birmingham City last weekend.


The fiery Northern Irishman has made it perfectly clear that failure is not something he will tolerate for long – and so a handful of players head into tomorrow’s game under added scrutiny.

“He has got a winning mentality and he’s tried to pass that on to us,” Dervite said. “You could feel his influence straight away and I think you can see an improvement in the team too.

“He will get results. I have said in previous interviews that it was a question of time before we started to win games – this is with a new manager but it is the same football club. We need to prove ourselves on the football pitch and start getting some results quickly.”

Last time out at the Macron, caretaker boss Andy Hughes led the side into their first post-Freedman game against Bournemouth, with the atmosphere a marked improvement on what had gone before.

This weekend, Dervite predicts an even more positive environment in the manager’s first home match in charge.

“That first result at Birmingham got us going - you could see that on the pitch. It got the fans going as well and that can only be a good thing.

“We will be playing in a better atmosphere and we’ll be playing for the win on Saturday, definitely.”

That release of pressure, which had built up to toxic levels under the previous manager and had also seen supporters' protests directed at the club’s hierarchy, has also had a positive effect on some players.

Dervite believes that Chung-Yong Lee has seen most benefit from Lennon’s edict to “go out and play” and believes the new manager's training regime has taken the shackles off some of the more creative players.

“The manager likes him and he’s finding a way of using his talent,” the defender said.

“We do a lot of ball work and match situations, and that is giving us a bit more confidence on the pitch.

“The manager has said ‘you are talented players, just get out there and play’ and it feels like we have more freedom.”

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Dorian Dervite wrote:“The manager has said ‘you are talented players, just get out there and play’ and it feels like we have more freedom.”

He's bullshitting you Dorian.

Dorian Dervite wrote:
“If we make better decisions in the final third of the pitch we will be fine.

“It is a question of finding a way to score.

That's one question, true.
But there are others and not just in the final third.  Brentford are a big strong athletic team who are a real threat on their day and know where the goal is at this level. We'll do well to get a clean sheet on Saturday so Dorian should be thinking about his own job.

wanderlust wrote:

Dorian Dervite wrote:
“If we make better decisions in the final third of the pitch we will be fine.

“It is a question of finding a way to score.

That's one question, true.
But there are others and not just in the final third.  Brentford are a big strong athletic team who are a real threat on their day and know where the goal is at this level. We'll do well to get a clean sheet on Saturday so Dorian should be thinking about his own job.

Lusty let's face it mate; the back line isn't yet as strong as it needs to be. We'll have very few clean sheets no matter who the opposition is so we're always going to need goals more than most other teams in this division. I think Dorian was right, if we can up our shot to goal ratio then that's more important than anything else right now. We desperately need goals and in most matches we'll need a minimum of two to get anything at all from the game at least until we can strengthen or reorganise our far too shaky defence.

luckyPeterpiper wrote:

wanderlust wrote:

Dorian Dervite wrote:
“If we make better decisions in the final third of the pitch we will be fine.

“It is a question of finding a way to score.

That's one question, true.
But there are others and not just in the final third.  Brentford are a big strong athletic team who are a real threat on their day and know where the goal is at this level. We'll do well to get a clean sheet on Saturday so Dorian should be thinking about his own job.

Lusty let's face it mate; the back line isn't yet as strong as it needs to be. 

Just saying that Dervite sounds like the broken axle of a Reliant Robin that's just been entered into a Grand Prix complaining about the positioning of the furry dice. 
Pot/kettle etc.