 Mae'n meddwl sy'n gweithio ni yn ymeth yma, ar y chymdeithas dros fynd, mae'n gweithio'n mynd i gael contiant hynny. Mae'n meddwl sydd yn hynny a'n ei ddylleg ynyddiadau gyda'r cyplodau? Mae'n meddwl. Cwrwp hyn ar gyfer ein tynneb am ddiwedd gan fynd. Ydw i'r bobl yn ei gilydd mewn cofnig, drwy'n credu bod hyn wedi myfio. Rydyn ni'n iawn i'r ffordd y se буду effaith a'r hyn o'r pryd. So, yep, we're really pleased with where we sit, at the most. Is that the activity now done for you? Are you still awaiting any further additions? There was a possibility last night of getting one over the land. We haven't had confirmation one way or the other, in terms of if it's gone through or not. And we'll just have to wait and see that, so I know I can't really enlighten you or me both. Is it a crucial target, a crucial player to come in? Obviously, we've wanted to do, clearly, because we're in. But if it doesn't happen, this happens all the time on the last days of window. You've just got to move on to players that you think will help. But that's where we are at the moment. We'll see what happens. If it wasn't to happen, you're satisfied with that? We've had a good window, in my view. Yeah, absolutely. I think the overall strength of the group has improved, in my view. The dynamic, to a certain extent, has changed. A lot more vocal. The guys that have come in, so that was something we wanted to improve. And I think that'll help the leadership of the group. So, overall, we're really pleased with what we've done. I read what you said about Sam's arrival, and again, that word of leadership was present there. Was that a big factor in bringing into the football club? Yeah, very much so. He's a talented boy. Good reputation at this level in league, league one level as well. And we think he'll add, certainly, to the group. And we've seen in the short space of time that he's been with us. That he's going to have a good influence on the group as a whole. I'm really pleased with that aspect of his personality, and of his ability, and I understand this again. That's a good presence. His leadership will add to the group, and we'll benefit from that. In terms of fitness, in what state does he arrive? Is he good to go? He's fit, ready to go. He hasn't had so much game time, but he's been training regularly. I think he was on the bench, not so long ago, for his previous club. So I haven't got a problem with his fitness. Levi's departure, just what was the reason behind why you let him go? I wanted to allow Levi the opportunity to play. Initially, it was pitched as a loan. So we kept our options open, but then a number of the clubs wanted to make it permanent. Then it really was about whether or not Levi wanted to do that, or he wanted to keep his option open, and remain out on it as a loan player. I've seen the deal that he's been offered is one that he wanted to make permanent. So I've got a lot of options, I've got a lot of good players in the building. I just felt I wasn't going to stand in his way. He's been great for us. He's played really well and been a big part of the team since I've been here, but sometimes you can't stand in people's way when they want to go to pastures in you. How is the dynamic now in the squad? Now there's some fresh faces in the building? Yeah, it's always good to freshen it up. There's a couple more playing pool I've noticed, so it's fine. I just think once the wind has closed, it's good that everybody knows this is where I'm going to be and from now to the end of the season, at least this is the group I'm going to be working with, so I'm delighted with it. I was going to say, as a manager, is it almost a relief that the wind... Yeah, to a certain extent. I think once it's closed, it settles everybody down, and the focus is about winning games. Do you live up to expectations at a lead-to transfer window? Well, it didn't disappoint me. I don't think it surprised me anymore. There's a lot of touring and throwing, and there's a lot of situations that can frustrate you. Some are agent led, some are club led, some are led by other managers. You've just got to basically get your ducks in a row, and it's sometimes difficult to get everybody lining up in the same way. That's why deals sometimes don't get done, so you have to accept it. Don't worry too much about it. You win some, you lose some. Speaking of relief, speaking of clarity, I mean, is it a relief that you've got a game of football to play? Yeah, well, we're looking forward to it here. It's been a little bit stopped out in recent weeks, so we just want to get into that rhythm of playing week in, week out, be it sat day, Tuesday sat day, sat day to sat day. I think the focus totally now is on getting out there playing and winning games. It probably goes with that saying, but is it something that the squads need because it has been so stopped out over the last two months? Yeah, well, it does seem rather fragmented, and it's difficult to get that rhythm to your player, that continuity of performance levels. It's been difficult to manage that, but we've now got decent run-off games, hopefully, if such a word would rely on the postponements. Hopefully, there's not going to be too many cool snaps. There will be, but hopefully they want an impact on the game, so let's hope we can have a clear run at it now. How is the fitness in the squad generally? Yeah, very good. Got good numbers every training session. Everybody's pushing to be involved, so I've got no problems in terms of numbers. What's Manny's situation? Manny's very, very close. Pretty much doing everything that everybody else is doing. We're keeping him out of a little bit of the contact. We're just using him as a guy floating between teams when we're playing small-sided stuff, just to keep the possibility of impact to a lower level. But I think Manny in himself feels he's ready to go. We need to try and get some bounce games organised just to give him some, obviously, putting back into the fray, so to speak, and then pretty much he's ready to go. It's always clearly one of the players that I feel will have an impact from now to the end of the season. That's one of the reasons I've been able to let other players go out, because I know that Manny's very, very close. Just looking at Mansfield and how, obviously, they've recruited this window as well. Naturally, I think people expect that from them. What do you expect from them now going in to that game? They'll be strong again. There's a big cohort of teams that aren't separated by huge amounts of points. So it's basically about going on a run. I'm sure they'll have the same aptitude of ourselves that we won't go on a run that will put us in a good position, and in a position where we can really attack the automatic places if we can. So we've got to get on with it. I'm sure that's what they're looking to do as well. There's any number of teams in a round, is that we'll be hoping that they can put together a run that will take them away from the following pack? So I don't think they'll be much different from ourselves in that regard. With 20 games to go, dare I say, is it a six-pointer now? Are we at that stage? No, I don't think it's there yet, but clearly you've heard me say before, it's always important to try and take points of teams in a round here. We will try and do that if we can. What a great performance and a great result against them at their place, showed what we were about, and yeah, we need more of the same at all. On the night we were excellent, so we need to try and replicate that if we can. Should you take confidence from how we performed? I think so, yeah. Why wouldn't we? We went there, difficult place midweek under the floodlights. No easy place to go. I think their home record was good at that point as well, and we went there, put in a good performance, got the result that we wanted, so we need to do that at the weekend if we can. After the stop-port game, he said that the one negative to come from that was the lack of chances maybe created in the 90 minutes. What's the solution to that? Is it something that needs to be solved going into the Mansfield game? Yeah, I did mention that. I think sometimes you have to give credit to the opposition as well, because they're going to defend their home, and they did that very well, as we did on the night, and that's why we, to a certain extent, cancelled each other out at the top end of the pitch. But I think there's more to come from us in terms of the final third of the pitch, and we've been working on that this week. Hopefully we'll see an improvement now. It's just about a bit more options and getting into better areas, and making sure when we get in those areas we produce the right quality ball. So, there's things that are fundamental to your attacking play that you have to replicate week in, week out, and on occasions we do lots of good things and we'll get up to a point on the pitch, and then we don't quite execute as well as we should do the key end of the pitch, which is obviously the final third. So, we're looking to improve that aspect of our play, certainly. Does the options that you have in your squad, the natural competition or the place that comes with that, does that then lead to a sharpness from the players? Well, yeah. I mean, this place is in the team. If somebody shows me in training and maybe coming off the bench or wherever, that they're ready to have a bigger impact, then I'll look at that. It's not the person that wasn't set in stone for every game. It's what I feel would be the best combination of players to get the job done. So, I've got lots of good options, different players, different types of players, different attributes that each and every one of them have that I can utilise. So, I've got good options. It's about picking the right options and in the right mix and getting the right balance. Thanks, mate. You play at least a good part of your career under the old transfer system when it wasn't a window. As a manager, you've always had the window. Is there one that you prefer? Well, from memory, I don't know. I did used to think that having the opportunity, if you felt you were weak in one area or you lost two or three players in the same position, then being able to go straight into the market and address that, I think that made sense. Having to wait obviously till the window opens and you've got a clear weakness to how you can address. I think sometimes that can be frustrating, but both systems have their pros and cons that are clearly at the top level, I think. It's that is that need because clubs can just address any weaknesses with money and throw money at it. I'm not sure we need a window at this level, possibly because sometimes you just need to address the weaknesses in your squad and it sometimes hampers that. That can be really detrimental to what kind of year and season you're going to have and what kind of success or go for bit failure you're going to have. It can impact that readily. So, if you have to wait because you can address a position that's clear for everybody to see, then that's dangerous. I have no strong, really strong feelings. There's your thoughts and every system has its good parts and bad parts, I think. I suppose as a manager, you know what touched on it, that a lot of the sides that you've looked at and seen how they're playing, they brought new players in. It's a case of going back to the beginning to get them seeing how they're playing. A little better, yeah, everybody seems to have added to their squad and yeah, there's been quite a few changes and there's an obvious one, obviously. We were looking at the Jillingham game and they were struggling at that time and the game was called off and now they've had the opportunity of a window and they've strengthened and gone into the market really strongly. So, yeah, that's how teams can change their fortunes around. So, yeah, it will be different. We'll go up against teams that we face, but actually we'll be facing teams that possibly will cause you different or more problems than they have done in the first half of the season. But clearly that's what we want to do as well. So, we've got to make sure our changes and our personnel are able to impact opposition teams better than their additions are able to do against us. So, looking forward to it, it's exciting that I think everybody also win the closes. Everybody slows down and gets on with the important battle, which is obviously winning games. And you mentioned, excuse me, you mentioned bounce games for the likes of many. How difficult are they to organise? Give them the way they are and give them the number of games that are taken to play in any way? Yeah, sometimes it is difficult, but we were able to get a really good game against Rotherham the other day and they had a free weekend, obviously it was every cup weekend. So, they were without a game. We weren't playing either clearly. So, we had a good game on the Friday, almost near enough that our first team and all the guys had a great deal of games from outside. So, a really good game, really competitive, exactly what you want from a bounce game. Sometimes, if you don't get, if you call to the other, both teams are making games where predominantly you've got younger players, they've got older players and sometimes you don't get the benefit that you're looking for, but I don't want to get to Rotherham who was excellent in that regard and really brought a lot of the guys forward. So, really appreciative of that. It's something that we'll look to do as of when we see fit, because we've got Manny, but obviously we'll have players that will need game time just to keep them ready to be available and make an impact when needed. So, Mark, about Manny, obviously the fact that there have been all these post-pacments, he's probably sat there thinking there's another one up. He's probably absolutely delighted to fit. Yeah, well, there's more games for him. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, take your point. Yeah, he's in a good place at the moment. He's very positive. I mean, you know him as a guy. He's got great personality, just desperate to be part of what we're doing. We've got to be a little bit careful. Clearly he was a significant injury that he's had and we're guided up to a point by the specialist and he hasn't absolutely been given the green light, but he's like, I think, 80% healed and he's probably at 79.9, but he's just not quite there. So we have to wait a little bit, but I think in his own mind he feels he's ready to go. So I think that's the important thing that he has that confidence in the injury and the way the injury is healed and how it's progressed. Everything's been on track. He's pretty much touched and hasn't had any setbacks. So that's great, given the severity of the injury. I was going to say, when you cast your mind back to something in the immediate aftermath, did you imagine you potentially be getting in for, well, probably a third of the season? No, I think there was a real concern when the injury happened and obviously it happened in the first game was shocking for everybody and I credit him money. He's done everything that he's needed to do to get back to this position and be ready to go. So we're really pleased for him. We're fairly okay at game time from now to the end of the season, almost certainly, because he'll demand it probably because that's the guy he is. So was his recovery sort of a factor when you were thinking in, during the window, sort of thinking, well, I know this guy is going to be going to be available for you? Yeah, I mentioned it earlier. Yeah, I look at the different players I've got, the different options I've got and money is a really good player to help back. He can play any number of positions, sees himself predominantly as an eight, but can play in wider positions as well, which he's asked to good effect. So it's got that we've got, hopefully, to get him back and available to offer where he can offer. That's people saying obviously about the window you mentioned Gillingham, I think they brought in 10 players or something. I mean, something that doesn't happen in the Premier League, isn't it? I mean, there's big turn. No, there's big turn. There's going to be a different side. It's like the summer as well, if we're honest. I mean, it's, yeah, there's always a big turn of players either at the end of contracts or not going to be renewed. So they have to look at their futures. So that churn happens at the end of seasons and clearly in January as well. So, yeah, it's just how the market is. It's frustrating that, as you say, you couldn't play a team that were sort of really struggling at the time, probably during the form. Yeah, yeah, but maybe when you talk about luck during the season, maybe that's a little bit of fortune that they've had, but they've still got to go out and play and jail and win games. So it's not easy to do. So, yeah, we'll take the game as and when it comes, but that's a few weeks away. So we'll concentrate on the weekend first. And obviously now you've got your squad in, as you say, you can sort of focus on the rest of the season. No distractions. I mean, in your head, if everyone is fit, have you got an ideal first 11? Yeah, on any given week, it can change, because obviously you've got a factor in the opposition on how they play. Do you shape up to really compensate and address any attacking threat they have? Or sometimes you're more often, not we, we back ourselves to play how we play. And big teams are currently. So, no, I wouldn't say this. In my own mind, this is the strongest 11 because we can go different ways and different players will suit different systems and different ways of going. So I'm really happy with the group we've got. I feel we're strong in almost every area that we need to be. And that gives me comfort, gives me confidence that we can have a good finish to the season. And obviously Sam Stubbs coming in also potentially gives you the option of going with 3.5 as well. Yeah, yeah, that's a little bit of thinking behind it. So I feel confident that's something that we could do if we felt that we needed to do that or I was correct to do. So it's all about the amount of options I give myself and how strong those options are. You can go with different ways and different personnel but if people aren't comfortable in the positions you give them then sometimes I can weaken you rather than strengthen you. So I think given the players that we have in the building now I think I can go anyway and we'll still be strong in respect of which way we go. That's a busy city. If you've got that weapon you'll be able to swap formations. Opponents look at you now and they can't sort of pigeonhole that's fairway a 4-3. Yeah and I've always got the options to change it during the game as well. So you need that flexibility tactically to recognise first and foremost what's going on, what's needed and what's required. And that can be just a change of shape within the game but a change of personnel from the bench. So it's about recognising what the problem is. A token of options is sort of considering his record against Manfielders. Andy Cook been banging on your door a bit. Last few days. Yeah it's a difficult one with Andy. He broke his nose and it's only seven, eight days ago I think. And I think the recommendation is probably 10 to 14 days. So today we kept him away from contact. Trained today within the group and fair to say he was a little bit apprehensive but I think as the session went on he was better. And really he's just about seeing where he is and how comfortable he is. It's no point having Andy Cook holding back if he's a little bit worried by a bang on his nose because given the way he plays that is a possibility. So we'll just have to make a decision clearly tomorrow and go from that point. But obviously once a player he had a great game against them last time out. Old club of this or yours likes going up against clubs he's played for. So we'll give him as long as he's as long as we can to see if he can be involved. So you've also got to be wary that following the following week you've then got I think for four and six Tuesday nights I think as well. Well that's the thing. If it's a case of missing one to make sure that he's okay for the three four or whatever that that's following quick succession that's what we have to do. But hopefully he'll be okay. Okay, no problem.