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Wel o peirlo petrwacht r麻 yr eich un o gadoedd mewn og fel mae'r rawr a gれるieriaid rwy'nios sy'n ayudau dewis o ddechrau yn Llyfridol Iefallaeth y gallwn ffordd o'r gair. Felly y pethau dewis yn werth, a unrhyw wedi bod yna ydy'r rhai. Ie, mae'n fawr yn ei ffordd. Beth yn y gyd ar hyn yn gyfrifio'r gyrfa. Gofyn, mae'n gyddio i weithio i groeithio, mae gwybod i'r rgyn iawn. Mae'n rhoi i'r gwirio. Gallwch chi'n gwirio i'n gwisu'n gwirio i gael i'r gwirio a chydych chi i gael, maen nhw, gyda'r gwirio'n hyn o gyrdd. First memories go back to the very start of football of Brafford City. What are your early days like? What do you remember being your first exposure to football in general to Brafford City? It's a weird one really because one of my first memories is AFC Wimbleddon at home and we beat them 5-0. It's a weird one. It probably won't my first game. That game itself probably cost a lot of goals in it and obviously it was a successful game. That one was a really enjoyable one. Definitely won my first game but I can't remember my first game of that one. What were your feelings going to the early games when you first started coming and how did it make you feel, give you the appetite to want to come back and enjoy coming to this and being a part of it? I just fell in love with it straight away. As soon as I came as a young kid I started coming with my uncle. I just fell in love with it literally from the first game. I enjoyed everything about it the day out, the crowd, the players, just everything about the club I enjoyed. I remember sometimes when my uncle were working on a saturday I used to throw a paddy when we couldn't come. It's just so addictive once you start coming and you start getting the love for the club. Who did you have around you coming to the games and who first got you into Braffat City and gave you the bug? I'd say my uncle gave me the bug. He was coming before me for quite a lot of years so my dad and then obviously they started bringing me so obviously I caught it straight away like a local boy would and ever since then I've just been coming ever since. You come from a family of Braffat City fans. How has that shaped your upbringing obviously coming to the games and being a part of Braffat City but also shaped your career now that you're out there playing for the first team? I think it's given me a love for the club but probably a lot of other people won't have grown up with a family full of city fans. I think from early I've always been set to come here and be a fan. Obviously not be a player but I've gone and worked hard and I've finally achieved that but I think a lot of people can see on the pitch that I am a fan because I wear my heart on my sleeve really. I go into a game, leave everything on like any fan probably would watching. I used to get the each when I were a kid. I used to think if I were on that pitch I could have done this, I could have done that and I think every time I'm on it now I'll show that. What were your favourite parts about being a Braffat City fan and who were your favourite players? Things like that. What was your favourite part about coming here on a Saturday afternoon? I'd say probably 2013 when Mackie Wells were here. I used to love Mackie Wells, he was my favourite player. I used to copy his boots and everything. Boots even the way he walked, everything about him. I loved Mackie Wells' goal scorer so I'd say 2013 season was my favourite. When you were looking up to Mackie Wells, imagine school playground pretending to be and all that kind of stuff, did you ever think for a minute that one day ten years down the line you'd be out there, fans would be chanting your name, you'd be the one scoring in front of the cup? I think I always fought it because I think every kid does who comes here and watches. It's always a dream in it so I think I did definitely think it but I didn't think it would have actually come through until I started getting a little bit older. It's always been the dream and I'm happy that I've come and achieved it. You came up for the academy, you're about seven years old. How did that happen initially? You obviously get scouted playing Sunday league and all that kind of stuff. Just talk to us about your first pathway into the football clubs and academy club? It's a weird one really because I was actually on just a local field with my grandad, just playing football, just kicking up all the ball and then I think a scout would actually walk past walking his dog and he spoke to my grandad and he was saying he can play like that and where does he play and everything on a rush of juniors at time. So I think they put tabs on me there and a few more scouts came to watch me and then I gradually got into the academy and just went all the way through. How much did you enjoy your time both as an early player, like you say, coming here as a kind of fan of the team that you were now playing for and then coming through the academy set up playing at all the different age groups? How has that shaped you maybe a little bit as well? Yeah, definitely. I think the academy shaped me into a good player but also a good person as well. They're big on being humble which I think for me is probably one of my biggest parts of my game. If anything's going wrong, I don't spit my dummy out. I'll get back on it and work hard for the team. So I think the academy, the main thing they've done for me is kept me humble and it's all paid off. The people in the academy as well, the coaches obviously, Neil, who sadly passed away last year, but the likes of Martin, the likes of Ryan Farrell, everybody who's come through the academy and being mentors to you and coaches, how much of it's down to them? Oh yeah, a lot. They've made me into such a better player than I would have been if I weren't at the academy. I think they've shaped me into a good man and a good men's player now. So yeah, I think the academy's done the job really well with me. When you were coming through the academy, was there a point where you sort of started to realise your dream and think, you know, this could really start getting serious for me and I could make it, I could become a professional player? If so, when was that and how was the process of you kind of being able to get into that mindset? I think when I first ever started training with the first team, I was a first year scholar and I actually sat there thinking after the sessions like, I'm not too far off here. I've obviously got to work in the gym and everything like that, which I went and did. And then last season, I started getting invited up most days, most days. So yeah, I started fitting in with lads and training well every day. So I think that's when I actually genuinely thought to myself, I could go and do it here. When you're working with them first team players, in terms of your physicality, you've always, you've said yourself, you've always been quite a small person, a small player. When you talk about how you're hardworking, you're kind of aggressive and you're determined, it's part of that come from the fact that potentially you've not always been the biggest player on the team. I've had to work extra on your physicality sometimes in order to compete at the level and might we see out there now, you're not afraid to get stuck in and mix it with boys who are potentially a foot or whatever, taller than you. Yeah, I think what helps with me a lot is I want it more than the other players out there. It could be a player six foot five, but if there's a ball in between, I want it a lot more than him and I know that 100%. So I think that helps a lot with me. He's my hunger and everything and I think that helps because I'm playing for Bradford City as well. I'm a fan and I always will be. I'll always show that on the pitch and I think my hardworking and my writing, grafting, I think that comes because I'm a fan. You've broken into the first team properly, sort of this season, made a couple of appearances I think in pre-season last year and sort of being in and out kind of thing. But this year's been your breakthrough season. You made your first team debut. How, as a moment, was that to finally, like we say, after all that time in the academy, after all that time as a fan, realise you dream, make your first team debut for Bradford City? It wasn't real. I think the home debut were the best because obviously I was starting, so I got to walk out and listen to Take Me Home and everyone's standing up and everything. To be honest, I can't even remember it. It just went straight over my head because obviously my head were gone and I was just thinking like, this is unreal, this is mental. So I can't actually remember walking out and letting it sink in. I was just thinking like, oh dear, this is surreal. So I think that was the best moment for me, walking through that tunnel and listening to Take Me Home and everyone cheering. What do your family do? Do they still sat here or do they sit over in the main stand? Were they at the game? Do you remember getting feedback from them and all that kind of stuff? Yeah, they were just up there. My dad used to sit there with me, but now he's up there in the family area, so he was nearly crying. I think my mum was crying and my sister. So yeah, you can tell it means everything to my family, so it was a good moment to share with them. You scored your first senior goal then in October against Swindon down at the other end. How was that as a feeling looking back in terms of your first senior goal? We saw the celebration and the emotion after, but how proud did that make you to have done that and accomplished that and for the rest of your family again? Yeah, the goal situation was absolutely mental. It never crossed my mind that I was actually going to score. It was just too good to be true scoring at Valley Parade and everything like that, so I think as soon as I hit it back at net, like I said when I was walking through the tunnel, my head just went and all the adrenaline took me in front of my hands on my knees and shushing them. One actually first goal at Valley Parade, he scored two, I think a couple of seasons before when you were still in the youth team against Doncaster and against Oldham. How were they as experiences as well while you were kind of still in the academy and looking to break into the first team, but to have scored then at Valley Parade and again on your pathway to sort of realising your dream that's been quite big for you? Yeah, definitely. The Oldham game was my first time ever playing at Valley Parade. I've obviously been here since I've been seven-year-old and I've never played at a stadium and sooner I'll become 18 and I get to play here, so I think to scoring that game was also special and it's just given me a taster which made me want it even more than I did before that. It was a good experience and I'm glad it made me more hungry to come and actually achieve what I've achieved. That season in itself was a real success as well for you personally, for the academy and for the club as a whole. First EFL youth alliance league title for 10 years or something like that, you obviously won the academy player of the year at the end of season 2 and then pro contract signed that not long after as well. In terms of that couple of months period there where everything seemed to happen again, how good was that for you looking back now, how much did that shape you and how much again was that a period where you thought this is really now my opportunity to kick on and show what I've got? Yeah, that were a really good season, really successful and I think that helps with obviously the pro contract and everything like that. I'm obviously sat there thinking I need to push on now and keep working hard and hopefully it's coming closer and closer and I've just got to keep staying patient, keep showing the gaffer what I'm capable of and then luckily I've got my chance. Up to pretty much present day, you've got your second senior goal on Good Friday in front of the cup, here against Tramir, is that one of the best moments of your career, one of the best goals you've ever scored at any level? Yeah, that's my best moment of my career so far, from being a kid to now best ever, to score in front of the cup is special but to score it like that is even better, as soon as I've seen it flying in top corner I just started running off straight in front of all my fans and it was a brilliant feeling, like I said, the exact same feeling of walking out of that tunnel my head went. And like you said, to do it in front of the cup with all the fans behind the cup, chanting your name, you've got a famous chant obviously that goes a little bit about something being one of our own. To hear that in the flesh and after you've just got to go like that and get all the adulation from the fans that must have been really special for you and for your family as well I would imagine. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I know they were all singing it up there. So yeah, I think my song, my song itself is special because it's actually got a meaning behind it, you know, they appreciate that I've been a fan all my life and I think they know themselves how much I love the club and everything like that. So yeah, there's chants really special and moments like that you can't beat. Mammy said at the time of the Swindon goals that that was standout memories, standout moment for you. How does Tramir compare? Is that tip-tip do you think? Yeah, yeah, it's definitely tip-tip. Obviously like a lot of people say you can't tip your first goal but I think that goal in front of the cup was special and everyone wants to score in front of the cup if you're a fan so yeah, I've finally done it and I think I did it in his style. We've spoken about the fans as with any homegrown player who's representing the club. There's always a bit more passion from their side, a bit more love, feeling that and like we say you've got your own chant and all that kind of thing. In general, how was that for you? How does that feel again? Is it a little bit maybe surreal to feel all that love and to help it feel what you do on the pitch? That must be huge. Yeah, the fans help me loads. I don't think they realise how much they actually help me. I know they're all on my side and they're backing me and I think that gives me freedom on pitch. I have a lot of freedom in my players, they probably know and that's just because I know they trust me and I know they trust that I'll give it my all if I lose it or if the team loses the ball, my reaction will be good. I think the fans know that I'm going to give it my all and that's why they've backed me to be honest and it helps on the pitch loads because I can play with freedom and not worry about making mistakes. How important is that support in general because you've got the context I guess over anybody else really in the first team at the minute of having been in these stands for like you say the Sunderland game, Reading game, Arsenal, all that kind of stuff where the fans really were a 12th man this place was full and helped to secure some really big results and even in the years following that end route to the present day, it must really help you boys on the pitch when you've got that behind you and all the fans packing out of these stands and singing loud and clear and getting right behind you. Yeah, definitely. The fans give you such a good buzz when they're off the seat and the chanting and the cheering for example and we get corners and everything I remember in the Grimsby game, my first game here. We went on like a 10 minute spell and the fans were off the seats and they were singing everything and we kept getting corners and they were cheering and I sat there thinking we're going to win it, we're going to go score. They don't realise how much they actually help the team and give them that buzz which probably leads to good results. That Grimsby example there, that feel a little bit surreal as well in itself where if you go back 10 years ago it would have been you as part of that and stands helping cheer the team on and getting right behind them and shouting your loudest and all that and now you're on the pitch feeling that. Does it feel a little bit weird and does it kind of again make you understand it a little bit more having been on both sides of that fans? Yeah, I understand the passion of all the fans. I think that's a good thing for me. I understand everyone's passion. I'm used to hearing it from the stands and I'm thinking this is loud but it's even louder when you're on the pitch. You can hear it, you can all sink in and it gets you up for games and it makes you play a lot better. When I were in the stand I probably didn't realise how much it helped but when you're actually on the pitch and you know yourself it helps a lot. How important is that going to be now going forward into next year and in years ahead where we're trying to build a successful team and be a part of something especially obviously still young and you've got your whole career ahead of you. I would imagine you'd like to test a little bit of success here at Rafferty for your hometown club. How important are the fans in trying to make that happen and being with us every step of the way? Yeah, it's going to mean a lot next season. Getting the fans on our side, being positive, just literally like the Grimsby game. We have ten minutes balls where we go get on top and then when the fans are on top as well it makes us play even better so I think next season if we get a good start and we fill this out and the fans get on top of us, get on top of the other team as well we could have a really successful season.