 I suppose the last time I saw you you had one less player in your squad and now you have that of Chris Taylor who's come in this week. Explain to us the reasoning as to why you've brought him in? Well we were trying to get something done in the summer and the situation didn't allow us at that particular time. But then obviously things changed. You tried to go and get a contract at Berry and obviously we saw what happened there. And then he was just someone that I keep in contact with anyway. I think following the bad news with Jamie Devitt with Matty Palmer in that position and the fact that he can play a variety of positions it just seemed like a sensible thing to do at this particular moment in time. I was going to ask you about where you best plan to use him in your starting 11 or squad? Well it's like anybody. I think if his opportunity arises in any of the positions like you say across the midfield, left wing, right wing, centre mid, off the front then he's more than capable of playing in any of them. And if we ever needed to play him either fall back or do a job there as well because that's the type of character he is. You talk about character, given the fact that you've worked with him previously that must be a help for you knowing what kind of character that's coming into the dressing room. Yeah definitely I've been saying all along. We're only 13 games in and it's all about building relationships. Well with the knowledge of working with Chris a couple of times I understand that relationship that we have and you know we're further ahead with him then obviously some of the new ones that was just like I said 13 games in and that's important that you have people in there that you have had that relationship and confidence and trust him. When can we expect to see him? Is he ready to be involved? I'll go and get him now if you want. He can do. He's been in since Tuesday, he all got confirmed and now he's fit and ready to go for the weekend. Looking ahead to the weekend and how the squad looks more generally any knocks and niggles to report at all? Well we've got the long-term ones of Joe Riley, Jamie Devitt who was at our game last week and was on one crutch and doing really well. Matty Palmer who's been in this week as well and he's in the brace but he's going the right direction. They're the long-term ones and we've still got Jordan Gibson missing and Tyler French and Jackson Longridge still missing. Calvin Miller will he be? Yeah he's expected to return for this weekend. Looking ahead to that game and specifically in the defensive area as well with Ben Richard Everton returning from his suspension. Does that give you a bit of a selection headache given the fact that obviously with James Vaughan not making the starting 11 last week in the mantra of not changing a winning team? Does that give you a bit of a selection problem? Well it wasn't a case of not changing a winning team, Adam Henley came in obviously for Calvin. I'm not one that would necessarily not change a winning team if I thought it was the right thing to do. Ben's being available for us again is a boost for us for sure and he certainly comes into contention. It's something that will probably give me another sleepless night this week and then I make the decision. It must be hard for you given the fact that Porty and particularly Anthony in the result against Moor can play so well together? Yeah definitely, I totally agree with you. Since Ben got suspended the pair of them have done terrific for us and it's a tough decision that we have but that's why you recruit all these players and the quality of them to make life difficult for myself but also to increase the competition and the quality within the squad. Can you talk about that as well? It moves me on to my next point which is the strength in depth that you have in the squad because in the last two games you've been able to bring a player on who has seemingly scored the winner for you. Yes that's been fantastic and that's like I say the character that we want when we recruit and we talk to people about their characters and what are they like out of the team, what are they like of the sub and like you've just rightly said the last two games having somebody come off the bench and score the winner is fantastic and that's what's important to us here at the club and that's a credit to all the lads that are all part of the squad and they understand that and they understand the importance of playing their part because they all will play their part this season and we've got a big week coming now in terms of Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday so it's going to get stretched for sure and just an angel of those injuries that we have at the moment and that leaves you stretched as well. What was the winner in the end of that consolation goal late and it was interesting to hear what he had to say after the game that he's learning from the likes of Vaughan and Donaldson in training, how much is he developing at the moment? He's been really unlucky hasn't he in the sense of you know he's not really had many minutes and that's not been down to him that's been down to the form of like you say James Vaughan and Clayton Donaldson and what he does possess is that burst of pace and the ability to score goals and you know he's just got to keep building on that from last weekend and he's going to be like I say a major part for us this season. Does he come into contention for up front? Yeah definitely of course he does you know the pleasing thing about him is he's not just a centre forward he'll do a shift out wide for you as well and he can play in the number 10 position so he does give us a good of the number of options and you know he does come into the reckoning for Saturday. Just on that position up top obviously Clayton Donaldson started in the last game James Vaughan was on the bench how do you look to maybe shape up against Crawley just given the fact that you know Donaldson's goal return hasn't been what many might have wanted from him at the start of the season he missed that chance early in the first half is it something for you to consider? I think any striker will tell you you know the day to start being concerned is when you're not getting the opportunities and like you rightly said you know we could be and Clayton has said himself the pair of them have been in the positions where they could easily have a lot more goals than what they have what's really pleasing is the fact that if you look over the last what five games I think it is we've had seven different scores or something like that and that's phenomenal from the squad and you know we wanted that to continue I think you know you see from the effort that they all put in now they all defend from the front and it's not just you know the you defend as you defend and where us attackers will attack and you know it's the same with the attacking and scoring goals we've got everybody contributing and that's important for us. One thing that was mentioned highly after the result more come from the fans on the messages that we were getting was that they felt that there'd been a real change in culture at the club and that was stemmed from the performance and maybe wasn't the most attractive of wins but it was a win nonetheless do you feel that there's been a culture change under your guidance? I'd come back to you and say what do you mean a culture change? In terms of I would guess from what they were saying was finding the winning mentality and grinding out the results I know there was a big frustration from the players that they conceded that all later so I'm talking about the psychology in the culture with the dressing room. Yeah definitely it is something that obviously last season was last season we put it to bed at the end of the season we then went about our work in terms of recruiting the right types of people the right characters set about trying to change like you say the mindset the mentality of the group winning games helps that but we know it's still going to take time it's only 13 games in and we have to build on the start that we've made and so far it's been pleasing that like you say I walk into the dressing room and you think we'd have lost because the fact that they wanted a clean sheet and it's just hammering home those messages and trying to influence them and affect them for the next game and the desire that they've got is pleasing and that comes from like you say winning games and being around each other and having good people. Just building on that word culture as well and I talk that from a fans perspective as well it was an amazing atmosphere given a small ground like Morkham on Saturday and I think it was over 1700 fans that had travelled over they'd sold out their way and you must feel that on the touch line that there's a real buzz about the fans and there's a lot of, would you say, belief as well? I certainly hope so. The most important thing has been the reconnection between the fans and the players and I've said from day one pre-season that it was important that we build that relationship there would be times where we won't probably play well but we need the supporters to stick with us. It's human nature if the supporters are backing us and willing us on then they'll get a response from them and at the same time I've said that along we need to put performances on that get them to backers as well but we'll both play our part and I think so far this season the supporters have been magnificent both home and away and last Saturday was the same you got the feeling that the supporters were sucking the ball in the net when we turned round and kicked that way towards them second half and it's good what's happening at the moment we ain't going to get carried away and I don't think anybody can afford to in this league after only 13 games but the reconnection between the fans and the players has been particularly pleasing you see the way they all celebrate together and that's been important and no doubt that support will be in attendance for the game against Crawley just on your opponents that you face next what do you make of them as an opponent this weekend? It's a tough tough one we've watched them they've got a lot of power they've got a lot of pace some size as well they've recruited well I said at the beginning of the season where people finished last season was irrelevant to this season and they're one of those clubs we have to make sure that we go with the same mindset and pay them the same that was really pleasing last week was the way that the players respected more come and how they went about the jobs that was really pleasing for me because they did a real professional job and it's the same again tomorrow these are a difficult side and we're going to have to be at our best again you mentioned about players not necessarily, I'm a defender I'm staying here one thing that's been really noticeable particularly in the last two games is the way the midfielders are following up attacks and two calls at least have come from that yeah no I think there's a lot said about formations isn't there and the way that I think we've played the last couple of games has enabled our midfield to do that and obviously you've got hope that's got two in two now and so we hope he continues to build on that and gain the confidence from that but it's come about from the work that he's done and the extra work that he's putting in on the training ground and the fact that you have players that suppose in the 80s and 90s but can fill in where they need it you're ageing me there 80s 90s yeah no it's important it's important because you have to try and make your squad work for you and give you that depth and one point last week for example we were looking at possibly who could play centre half if Pauly hadn't recovered from his dead leg and Ben was still injured and Tyler was injured and so you're looking at a midfielder slotting in there or a fullback slotting in the centre half and we were pleased that we had still those options available to us because throughout the course of the season you will get situations where it is stretched and you need people to fill in I think you only have to look at the likes of Remi doing a job out wide, Shane McCartney when he's come on and doing a job out wide for us the attitude has been first class and on a similar point to that have you already started looking at the January transfer window gosh you sound like one of the agents that rang me the other day listen you have to do it as part of the job and you never know who becomes available in January that wasn't available at the beginning cheers you said about the goals from different goals 7 in 5 7 in 5, is that right? 7 in 4 and that must be important also for the group itself because if you're saying one player is called 10 goals and everyone's looking to rely on him but the fact that you can see everybody's having an active contribution there I don't know whether we should share that with you I'm just thinking about it we've got a leaderboard we've got a leaderboard for goals and we've got a leaderboard for assists and it's something that we put up regularly weaker I'm fair for the fullback not really, no Kelvin Mellor scored 7 goals for me in lead 2 as a fullback but no, it's just a little bit of extra motivation like we're saying, get yourself on the leaderboard and contribute with assists and goals like you said on Tuesday when we put it up there it was up there and you see all the lads that have scored and it's pleasing, it's good I know in the start of the season you were talking about more players need to contribute are you impressed with how that's been taken on Bullseye? Definitely, and like you say there's no point of defending a guy up for a corner they're not going to try and score a goal otherwise they might as well just stay there and save their energy but fortunately for us we've got lots of people wanting to score and being able to contribute as well