Kenny Jackett stays level-headed through the testing times
It's been a testing few months for Kenny Jackett, to say the least.
Wins over Reading, Charlton and Brighton, coming off the back of a 4-1 defeat at Sheffield Wednesday when Jackett's future was being questioned by all and sundry, have propelled Wolves up the league table.
Yet throughout the ups and downs, Jackett's stoic demeanour has barely altered.
Does he make a conscious effort to remain so level-headed?
"I don't really work at my demeanour, you are what you are," Jackett said.
"I've been around long enough to know you have to be yourself.
"I don't consciously try to be one way or another.
"Observation is a very important part of management – I try to concentrate and observe because even a small thing can make a big difference, one move, one substitution, somebody going out of form and you make the right change, observation is a very big thing.
"The best managers I've worked or played for, their observation is outstanding, so maybe that affects my demeanour to a degree.
"In terms of information to the players, it's very easy to get frustrated with players, very easy, because generally pressure transfers down.
"Whoever's I'm responsible to, i.e. the board of directors and supporters, when there's pressure put down on you, you transfer it down.
"Anyone in management will tell you it's not always a good thing to transfer pressure down. To instruct, rather than get frustrated, is something that experience teaches you."
The Wolves boss has been under the cosh, so does he see recent results a vindication of the job he;s doing?
"No, I don't see it that way," he said.
"In terms of personal pressure, it's certainly going to come at some stage. I'm somewhere between 600 and 700 games as a manager and I was coach for a long time before then as well.
"I certainly understand the territory and the most important thing is the next game, and how the team looks, what it needs to do to be able to progress. If you keep progressing you can stay in the industry and the job."
