 Josh, congratulations on being the club captain for the next season. How much does that mean to you? Listen, I'm absolutely delighted and honoured to be asked to be captain for such a fantastic football club like this and I've had it before in the armband and it's something that you feel proud to wear and to lead the team out and it's something that some people I think can thrive off and give them an extra bit of buzz and I'm one of those and I can't wait to put it on my arm and lead the team out and it's been a very good pre-season and obviously I've worn it once or twice in the pre-season games but I've just tried to focus on doing as well as I can for myself and for the team and to try and take us forward into the season and to have to be brutally honest, I wasn't thinking of it, I was just trying to concentrate and obviously the guy pulled me and asked me to be captain and as I say there's many words I could use and I'm very proud and honoured to be asked to be captain. And what does it mean to you to wear the armband? Does it change the way that you go about your games? Does it change anything you do in the dressing room? It probably comes with a little bit more responsibility and expectation maybe but again for me you've got me challenged in life, you've got to have competition and this sort of thing is something that can make me stand up taller and push my shoulders back and as I say I keep using the word but feel proud because it's nice that you feel like you're the leader and you can lead the team out, you're at the front and you're going to try and push all the way and put everyone with you in the right direction and I'm sure there'll be a few more jobs if you like and things that I might have to deal with and players and boys coming to me asking for opinions and having to relate obviously with the staff and it's something that I've always had a warly armband as a youth team player, reserve player and as I say I've won it as a first team player previous clubs and I keep saying it's something I'll get a buzz out of and I just can't wait now to lead the team out for the first game of the season hopefully and try and see us push on and be successful as a team. Another new sign in Anthony O'Connor has been named as vice captain what did you make of that and how do you think that will impact Anthony's game? Yeah, Anthony is very similar to myself, he's a talker, he's a leader and the way he plays he always wants to drive on and be on the front foot and just like myself as well he's a winner you know which we've got a lot of winners in that changing room and obviously he signed similar time to me and we spent some time in the hotel and so obviously I became quite close with Anthony and he's a great lad, he's very energetic and I think it'll give him as well a lift and take him again to the next level and I'm sure he'll be very very happy with that as well and together we can hopefully try and lead the team in the right direction and become a successful side. A lot of the signings we have made this year have been on the younger end of the scale so with a squad that's quite youthful do you think it's important to have experienced players and that everybody assumes a more of a leadership role? Yeah I think listen you get given the arm and you get named captain vice captain however you want to look at it but you have to have leaders right the way through the team no matter what age and the youngsters will learn off the more experienced boys and it's up to us to show them the right way and set good examples whether that be on the training field on a match day around the training around in the gym you've got to pull each other in the right direction and you've all got to have the same goal, the same path and be up to me and obviously the other senior boys to lead the younger boys and together and you have to have a mix, you can't just have the young you can't just have experience, you have to have a mix I think the staff, the recruitment, everyone at the club have done fantastic in the signings they've made so far and I think we're building a great squad here and training and the structure of everything about the whole place has been top drawer and I've really enjoyed it on my behalf the four or five weeks we've had in pre-season and this has just topped it off for me and I'm so excited now to get out there and help this club back to where it belongs was the fans and the fan base that this club's got deserves it I've seen it already for pre-season and other things and the fans are massive and they've got to see what we're trying to do and I can only assure them from me and from the boys and the team everyone at the club where we're pushing and striving to go in the right direction and we want to take this club back to where it belongs and the first time that you leave Bradford City out we'll be on Saturday against Shrewsbury in our season opener how much are you looking forward to that game? really really and it'll be my family love coming to watch games and there'll be a few of them coming they come every week and obviously we're pre-season games are quite local obviously they've been up once maybe twice but they haven't seen quite enough as what they'd like it'll be a proud moment for them to see that but I've been excited for this game this is pre-season to pre-season you have to use it for what it is you have to get fit, get together and work on the things you need to work on taking to the season but Saturday is a real one, Saturday is when it really matters it's all about the three points and that's why we're in it at the end of the day we want to put smiles on people's faces and that'll be our fans and I'm hearing myself saying fantastic I'm out the ticket so far and long may that continue because the bigger support, the more support the more vocal and loud they can be our fans that's only going to strive us on because I'm sure the more we bring it it'll be more like the home team if you like with how loud I know and seeing they can be I'm going to push on from there and hopefully the numbers keep rising