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I signed to play.. Warney
With the Millers being a little short up front, veteran striker Paul Warne has featured in the team recently, and tells todays 'Tiser that his age shouldnt stop him playing. Speaking in the Advertiser today, Warney speaks about his dual role with the Millers, but in a honest interview his determination to play football shines through."I haven't pressed the gaffer to play me. Because of my player/coach role, it's a bit more difficult for me to knock on the door and say I want to play. He knows I want to play. When I didn't play at Peterborough I was furious. I didn't look at Ronnie. I didn't speak to him at half time or after the game. I did my job as professionally as I could for the lads. I was as good as gold." Paul said."I thought from pre-season and training I deserved to play and I still want to play and until someone says there is no more games left in me I will still prepare myself to play every single game, I played in the last two reserves games and played 90 minutes in both and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm not as good a player as I was, I know that, but I want to play a part and I don't want to be overlooked just because I'm 37 or because I do all the fitness work. I signed a player's contract because I want to play." he added.Warney looked back at last weekends win over Hereford; "It was good fun. I didn't know I was playing until the day before. I didn't think the gaffer would ever play me and Alfie together.""I didn't start the game well to be honest but then there was a quick throwin and I just told Alfie to flick it on and then, very unlike me, I decided to break my nose to score a goal. When it hit my head I didn't think it had gone in because there was no cheer and it wasn't until Alfie was smiling at me that I realised.""We were resilient on the day but it wouldn't have been unjust if Hereford had got a goal, if I'm honest. In the second half they were just pummelling the ball up and we stood firm but I think a weaker ref would have given them a penalty, so we were over the moon to come away and pick up points and I was made up to the score goal that did it for us." Warney then spoke of his despair at breaking his leg against Torquay last November; "I was devasted. It took ages to repair and that's the disadvantage of age. You don't mend as quickly as you did when you were young," "You ask my wife. I was horrendous to live with because I couldn't sit still. I just kept coming back too early and breaking down. It was such a disappointing season and to end the way it did missing out on promotion was gutting. I didn't play a part in the play-off final at Wembley.""I've lost a couple of yards of pace but I do run about and hopefully sometimes that is infectious with the rest of the lads and they will see they have to put the same amount of effort in." "Me and Andy Liddell are in at 9 o'clock every day, I do all the running with the lads. Then when the lads are having their lunch I set all the lunchtime stuff up. Obviously I enjoy keeping fit and I feel privileged to have the job I have and the thought of it ending kills me," "If I don't play 90 minutes, I'll run my a*** off after the game and on Sunday I'll go training and do weights at home and go for a run. The missus will say, 'what are you doing to yourself?' The answer is that I just cannot let it go. I have to train to an intensity and that's what frustrates when I see people with a lot more talent than me not put the same effort in.""I'm not a talented footballer, I know what I can and can't do but if you apply yourself as well as I have then you'll have a great career. "And you cant add much more to that...Welcome to MillersMadHere's our LATEST Messageboard topics MillersMAD are proud sponsors of Miller Bear's home kit
