They didn't say that exactly but...
"We've tried to do that, but it hasn't been working as we would've liked. We haven't been winning, or playing what people might call better football," Bertos said.
"It was a conscious effort by the club to find out why the crowds had gone away. Our crowds have halved at home - even though we started the season well the crowds were still low after that.
"We tried to change a few things, but now we're at the stage where we need to win games if we want to get to the finals - no matter how we do it."
and...
"It's not been great, the last few weeks," Ifill said after yesterday's training session at Newtown Park.
"I don't think we've played particularly badly, but the results have been going against us. In saying that, the second half last week was probably the worst I've seen."
Not because the team doesn't have the ability to play well, he said. More that everyone lacks a bit of confidence at the moment.
"There's a lot of talk about the new style, but some of the things we've seen - getting away from the style - it's just fundamentals. Our defending's been poor, and I'm not just blaming the back four.
"It starts at the front and we've just got to work harder all over the pitch, and go back to basics and get that right first. Then you can start playing pretty football.
"You've got to earn the right to play this so-called total football, you can't just go in there and be Barcelona from the first minute. It's impossible."
To me it sounds like a bit of common sense. The writer (or probably editor) could have said "Return to a more pragmatic approach" rather than win ugly and it would have been fine. I was pleased to hear this, the 3 weeks have been dire and directionless. You can look to expand the game, transition the ball forward in different ways, not panic in possession and be more aggressive in defense without totally changing the game plan they have been playing.