 explored to see you again, given that you are here at the top table, I will presume that you are taking charge of the team on Saturday? Yeah, that's the plan. I'll be back in the dugout Rwyf yn ei ffordd. Nid yw'r calw wedi'i gwneudio'n rhaglen ar y cyhoedd, yn ymgyrch am wahanol a'r hawn, ond mae'n". Bydd ymgyrch i'r gweithio", a'r cyhoedd irddwg o gwneud o gwneudio'r sefydliadau yn yr ymgyrch o'r cyhoedd, ond achos rydyn ni'n dyma. Yn amlwg y maesafwr, mae'n adleidio'r peth o gyhoedd ar hyd yn ymgyrch. Felly am y dyma, mae'n gallu gwneudio'r llyfr o'r ymgyrch o'r gweithio. Yma'r dda fi wedi gweld, nhw'n defnyddio'r dda��. Wna wnaeth ymdweithle i'i groedd arno'r ffordd ar y ddangos y dag. Roedd rydyn ni i gyd yn bod yn eich gwybod, yn meddwl ac mae'r ddiwrnodau o'ch maen nhwysig. Rydyn ni i ddaddi'r hwnnw, ac mae gennyddiaid llyfrnodau ac hyd yn awg. Mae hyn sydd yn oedd ychwaneg. A phwlla eich hwnnw, mae'r hyn syniad llyfrnodau ddim yn cael ei ddawn. a gwnaeth efallai gwneud, fel byddai gynnaid gennym. The pitch is full, the squad is full, we are in good squad, and that was shown on tuesday, so as I say it's a good headache, it's one probably the first time I'm going to actually deal with it. The role of being player manager and actually playing and managing at the same time. Was it a case of learning on the job a little bit as the game went on Tuesday?ombol, i'r ffans credu fyddwch i'w unwyddiad fel gymwneud, roedd i'n gwneud argyrchu'r newydd, y gallwn i'r neud y pwynton i'r bwysig. Felly mae'r bwysig ar y dystryd am ddiffyddwch chi i'r bwysig, a'n dwi'n gallu swydd iawn a dwi'n eu bodma drwch Mae'r cymdeithas i'r ddweud i'r plwyd ac mae'n cymdeithas i'r gweithio i ddim yn bwysig. Felly that was obviously a bit harder and stuff and it's different. I can't see what's happening behind me on the pitch and stuff. It was tough going, but it was good. I think it worked out well. We got the win which was the main thing but I thought it worked well on the whole to be honest with you. You said after the game that the EFL trophy gave you the opportunity to test the water on that front, Yn dweud y blidio'n meddwl am gyda yma o'r cyllidau a lywn i'w mewn cyfweld? Mae hyn i wedi gweld i'w meddwl yn dweud, dan yn dweud roedd gennych at gwneud a pwysig lle mae gwir oeddiwch am fwy fwy a ymlaen i gael. Os byddu oeddiwch i'r gwaith, y gallwn ni am hyn sydd wedi gwneud nidech chi'n gallu gwybeth. Fe hwnnw'n gwein advertisementon. Maen nhw sanff iddyn nhw, mae eich bwysig ac oeddiwch wedi wneud nifer eich dweud na ddim. Pwysig pa jechyd diwethaf. Gwybod ddod yn ymddangos, ond yn ymweld i'r ddweud hynny mae'n gynnig ymddangos i'w Saturau? Yn mynd i, mae'n cael ei ddweud i'w dweud i'w ddweud i'w ddweud i'w ddweud i Gwymigrwyr. Fe'n gwybod, mae'n gwybod ar hyn, mae'n gwybod, gan y gwaith a'r ffordd, cymddoch yn fwy o'r ddangos, ond mae'n cael ei ddweud i'w ddweud i'w ddweud i'w ddweud, Byddwn i'r ddysgu o'r hyn oedd yn gyda'r un o'r maes, ond byddwn i'n rhaid i'r rhaid i'r rhaid, ond rhaid i'n rhaid i'r rhaid a'r mwy o'r rhaid yn gyfodol. Ond mae'n gweithio'n golliant. Rwy'n cael ei gweithio'r plai gyda'r gwell yn rhan, rwy'n cymorth o'r Alex Paterson yn seffaith yn unrhyw ymddych yn ymddangos. Alu dim ymwneud, thyft attic arall neu ydych chi eisiau i gyd yn sy'n ei grwych, Mae annos ergoed o'r hanes ar y lle. Brun o'r ddoch yn ymwneud wedyn caest i Lent yn gartyr. Mae'r cyfeirio yn fath o'r hyn o'r fath yn gweithio. Rydw i'n ei fod yn ymweld i'r grwp yn gallu'n ddiffen allan. A Glax wedi bod yn ymhynggell ymlaen. Ac yna'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio ar gyfer ymlaen, ac yn dda'r cyffredig yr Ynys Gwyrdyn, mae'r cyfryd yn cael ei wneud wnaeth ei wneud o'r hyn. A cyflym y byddai'n gweithio. Rydw i wedi bod yn draw i'r cyfrifau, Mae'n ymbu i'r gweld o'r go i'n gweld, mae'n gweithio'n fwylo'n cyllidio? Mae'n fwylo i'n mynd i'n gweithio'i gwybod, ac nid o'n gweld i'n gweithio'n gweld. Rhaid i chi'n gweld o'n clackie anhygoel i chi ddwy i'n ffais o'r ffiso'n gweithio o'r dda, ond nid o'n clackie a'n gweld i chi ddwy i'n gweithio. Rhaen. Rae was ill like a good few of us so he's obviously trained this week so he's going to be back in contention, I've not spoke to him after training today but he trained most of it today I think, he trained most of the training today so there's a good chance he'll be back involved but I'm getting this to an illness it's like there's numerous people going around it's just one of these things that's going round this time of the year. 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Against starter training, like the protocol as physios and stuff. y llwydd y bydd wedi'u... ... ychwanell ar 1970 a yn fyddwch chi fod yn cael ei molygaiddion. A'r mae'r llaw ar whiffod letter y byd rwy'n cael ei molygaiddion. Mae'n rhaid i'ch chihaith iddynt i gallu ei dderbyn, ... mae'n dweud o'r wych chi'n rhaid i ni, ... mae'n dweud o'r rhoi y peth yn y ddysgu. Yn amser chi'n dweud ar gyfer hynny, ... mae'n dweud ar ôl eich unrhyw. Mae'n ei ddod. Mae'r meddlin o gyfnodm, ... yn meddlinol, Mae'r drws yn ymddangos y cerddur gan eich gilydd, ac yma'n wneud gwasanaethau y gallu cerddurdau ar fewn hyn fel eich ymddangos? Felly mae'n ddweud gyda'r gyrsbeth yn y cerddurdau, mae fiy oherwydd mae'n ddweud yn y gyrsbeth, mae'n gweld oherwydd yn ddod yn garkodau cyhoeddechydig arall, mae's fyddangos wedi dod amddangos y bydd ddim yn cynnig. I don't mind for the benefit of the team in the club, it's the stuff that happens behind the scenes and obviously on the pitch, which is the main thing and all we can do is a staff and me as a caretaker manager is put a team out that's going to try and go out and win games in the right fashion and fortunately enough the last two games we have done and we've got a tough tough place to go but we're the hardest place to go in the league so we know we're going to raise it again but no it's the same kind of thing for myself. I played chosen and I enjoyed myself and I might have looked at a place to use I'm not sure but I was alright when I played I felt I performed well and stuff as well so I think I've always thought of myself in terms of until my body and that's at that point then I try and play as long as I can, how long it is I don't know but now I'm really changing on my side now. Obviously two wins helps in saying this in a hypothetical sense but another win maybe on Saturday and that just keeps the feel good fact to go. Are you open to the possibility of letting this run for its course if the team keeps winning and things seem to be going in the right direction? I think again I've spoke to obviously Ryan a couple of times and until I'm told kind of otherwise that's the kind of plan but obviously he'll be having conversations with people and stuff I'm sure, it's one of the ones where as far as I'm going to send I'm here to do a short term job. It's not going to go into months and months and months but it's going to it's a short term job and however long it may be then I'll continue to continue to do what we've done this past weekend I'll continue to do so until as I said until totally what is to be completed on this with you. On that I mean how much of an age have Mark Truman been and obviously we've seen Matt Derbyshire part of the background stuff as well just how that helps you? Yeah massively, Derbyshire obviously all the staff that analysts have been spot on. You know Truman's got a lot of knowledge, he's a good coach, he's a lot of advice obviously from Truman so he's been a big big help because obviously without these people you'd have a clue but not to the extent on certain things so obviously Derbyshire has been good, Derbyshire has been good with the strikers, Derbyshire is obviously a top striker so he's good in that advice for Cookie Hoos. Obviously he's young, he's 32, I think he was 32 years old but he's got a lot to learn from Derbys. Derbyshire is a clever striker, that's what Derbyshire has always been so Cookie appreciates that and that's where Derbyshire has filled in with a lot with the strikers and the attacking players so all in all everyone's pitched together because as I said at the very start that it's going to be a bit of an open book and if you see things or think things or negative or positive then make sure you say because we're all here to learn and we can all learn off each other and that's what we've done so far. They've got some of the best stats in the league that's for sure so they're obviously the lowest goals conceded in the league, I hope I'm right on that but yeah lowest goals conceded so we know it's going to go down there and be a tough game, it's going to be a hard game, we're going to start fast and kind of impose our game on them first and foremost and that's the way I want to be every single game you know, not to suspect any teams in the league but we've got a squad that we believe we should be doing, well we should be doing much better as a fact but we want to be going to these places and taking the game together. We're going to win, we're not going out there to draw and things like that, we're going every place to go and win. Same as Tuesday night pass, same as Saturday, same as next week and it's about building momentum in these leagues and we've got a couple of games, we've won a couple of games just of recent but it means nothing now because we go Saturday and we go there to try and win again. Has it been good for you that players, albeit in the short time that you've been in the role, have bought into what you're asking from them? We've just spoken to Alex Gillian who has said that there has been a slight change from what the previous manager was asking that might not see as much of the ball but that from-footed approach it's obviously showing that the team can play that way and it's producing results. I think like it's not going as well because I think like you went with previous I felt like we personally didn't feel we had lots and lots of the ball as such considering the players and the players we've got in the dressing room. So I think it kind of approached maybe a little bit more front foot but at the end of the day our aim was to get the forward players on the ball as quick as we can, that's how you win games, that's where the best players are, that's the match winners and stuff so that's where we want to get the ball to and there's a way of doing that, there's a way to set up to allow that to happen and that's what we've probably mainly worked on is where can we allow that to happen and I feel we've set up well at times to little tweaks here and there and the kind of forward areas, the midfield areas and stuff that have allowed that and I think the last two games we've been playing to see how we've created chances will be when we get a foot on the ball in the right area at the right time then we've picked teams off in my eyes quite easily and we should have scored more goals than we have done but that's part of football, we've rode our luck at times as well but in terms of what we've done on a training pitch it's been transformed on to the pitch and I feel we've performed well. In time, in years to come, me as a manager would play a certain brand of football and try and play a certain brand of football, I understand that in a short time we need to get results as a football club and at this moment in time it's the best way to do it in my eyes is the way we've been doing it. Have you learnt anything about yourself as a manager in the last week? I don't really know what, I don't really know how you've answered the question that we can put it honestly because I don't really know if I've had any sort of style of manager before so I'm kind of, I'm not winging it in any way at all but no I don't really know, I wouldn't say as a manager I think just as a person I've probably touched into more things I've learned and there's probably something more previous when I've took things on board now it's in my head. When I first got told about it in the house thing I was like I'm not too sure how I'll take this here but when I went on to the pitch with these things it seemed to kind of click back into my head because I've not done coaching for a while because I've been focused on playing so last year and a half I've not done much at all so I think it's kind of click back into place which is what I thought might happen but I was never too sure and fortunately enough I am and since that it's more and more just kind of came back with a lot of things when I was watching videos and stuff and thinking okay maybe what do we do at this course? What did that happen and these little outcomes and I feel I've tapped back into that which is then trying to give the players a bit of confidence and it's kind of been everyone together has been in my eyes has been too good performance as a result. Do you get as much sleep? No but that's got two kids. Thank you. You've been talking to Ryan, is he keeping you into the loop pretty much about what's going on in the bigger picture? No, not really not and to be honest with you it's one of the ones where I'd prefer that's his side. I would never be kept in the loop as a player and obviously it's different now but no it's not like we speak obviously leading up to games and things like that but that's what I want. My focus to be honest is that I can't afford to start thinking longer term what's this happening, what's that happening, I need to focus on, especially this week has been Saturday Tuesday Saturday, it's been quite hectic since Thursday so it's been 100 miles an hour so come next week then potentially my chat see what's happening in terms of that set of things but no and this week it's been so focused on putting out a team that's able to perform and trying to win games. Is that a good thing then? They've sort of left you alone to focus on the games rather than perhaps bogging you down with this is what we're doing, we might be doing this, we might be looking at that. Yeah obviously Ryan's been spot on and said anything you want or whatever else like this and that then get in contact but he speaks and we obviously speak pre-game, we speak post-game and stuff and how I'm going to set teams up and stuff like that. I think again that's probably one thing of the end is that's how it works between chief executives and manager, didn't really know obviously you wouldn't know but that's kind of how it is. You're obviously on the phone a lot more than things but the way I see it coming into this is like I'm a player and a caretaker, caretaker, player, manager at this moment in time but in my eyes we're here to get results at the football club and I think the situation is bigger than myself, it's bigger than a group of players. A group of players is about a club being successful and I think like we've been to games, I'm never going to get carried away ever even if it's saturday whatever it's not going to change, it's not going to change how I am but I think there's a bigger picture and a bigger picture is winning games in a long term ultimately leading to whatever one wants as a promotion, that's the end goal for me and everyone within that building. You said about the team ethic in terms of the coaching staff around you, obviously you mentioned Mark Truman, he's been a caretaker before, he's been a manager before. Did you feel a little bit apprehensive that he was helping you thinking most people would have thought Mark Truman would be in charge because he's got the experience? I knew he'd been a caretaker and manager before but again it was probably unexpected for everyone, it was unexpected for everyone in the whole in terms of me to kind of comment it and stuff but I think we're a group of player staff that my mission will never change on that side, it'll never ever change the fact that we're here to work, there's no sort of animosity around it at all and within that tree has been as I said tree has been spot on and I just think everyone in these moments like this, no one wants a manager to get sacked like I said last week, no one wants that, the reason why he's got sacked is because he must be on a pitch on a Saturday. So I think in moments like this everyone's got to pull together and the staff have done, tree's been a huge huge part, tree took the team on Tuesday like I kind of said you take the team and I'll be on that pitch and whatever I can do because there's probably times that tree was probably thinking like I would certainly call for a couple of things that kind of went wrong on Tuesday but tree took the team and I thought we would put a good performance on the whole so tree has been good along with everything mental staff has been kind of brought into it and again like I said just a second ago that it's a bigger thing as us getting results longer term in a short term yeah but at least a longer term which leads to promotion, that's what everyone wants. I'm from Tuesday night, haven't you seen the man he's sending off again, did the club decide against taking him off, any further action at all? I think, actually it was a way to see him and I think I got nipped in here before, obviously Mark, I think he's a secretary, it's one of the ones where that's going into it but that's definitely in the process, that's going to be the process, I'm sure it'll be in by now, I don't know, I think there's a time frame of something that he mentioned that but yeah. Anyways that's in the process of happening because we strongly believe it and again that won't change, I think what's kind of happened is obviously maybe the reports have now tweaked a little bit which from what I've gathered in there seems to be the case with these situations but as I've never been in these situations I don't really know what happens but yeah there'll be appeal going in and we'll see what comes of it. You'll know you're a full-time gepper when you get an apology on the phone? Well I'm not an apology yet so I'll see that. I was going to say looking at that as you said the other day, you've never been in this sort of situation before but when you sort of see that, is that the frustration of being on a touch line when you can sort of see a decision like that? It is, yeah. I mean as I said I've been on the end of them ones being in the money position or being on the other side of the house position but I think like when what's said is said and when it's happened with the fourth official referee and what was said was said regarding how it went around and then when you get a report and that's kind of changed a little bit. That makes it frustrating, I think that signs the frustrating part because now you've kind of, we'll see how it happens obviously from this appeal but again it is frustrating that's for sure because we don't believe it was ascending off, we firmly believe it wasn't ascending off. Yes it was a heat at the moment, it kind of kicked off a little bit but come on man if that's ascending off it's a problem isn't it? And we can confirm it would only be suspension in that competition wouldn't it? Yeah yeah that's one thing I learned also is that it would be three matched in that trophy so yeah that's what it is. To what extent Kevin in the last few years when you've been involved in training sessions and games have you been thinking along the lines of if I was manager I might do this differently or I like the way he's done that? I think like last year I learned a guy called him a really good coach, I learned a lot from him, yeah I learned a lot but I just think that it took up a little bits this kind of throughout probably from over a kind of coach of the past say five years I just picked up little bits and I worked with complete different managers in terms of a Ranieri was a complete defensive coach so there have been lots and lots from that and I had fully attacking coaches so I mean somewhere in between that is where I kind of need to be. In terms of as a playing style and stuff so but I think you just pick up little bits here and there but I did take a lot of notes over the course of these last few years and I didn't expect to need to use it this is that moment in time but I am and it stood me in a good stead so far from his last two games and there's still obviously hopefully more to come well there will be more to come but again the main thing for me is just I'm enjoying something like this and I know exactly how it takes it but I've enjoyed it. It's still a strange situation because obviously you know one day I'm wearing a green training track so next minute I'm in blue and it's just it's good to fuck you. I mean you say about not expecting to use the notes did you find from day one that you already had plenty of ideas for just from what you've been thinking to yourself over the course of the season? I've always had ideas in a way and I always believe in certain things that I've said to the lads and I'll always continue to believe in the way things should be. As I say in a longer term a footballing style would most likely kind of change a little bit but in a shorter term then things you've got to adapt and that's what we've done so far. The main thing I think the best thing for me is the boys have all put into it the staffs all put into exactly what we've kind of tried and you know as I say it's a bit like you can come knock on the door anytime you want and there's things that you think is great or you think things are rubbish then say it's no problem with me we can look into anything so. But no I've definitely took a lot of knowledge from previous and I'm trying to use it to the best of the club's abilities now. Alex talked about how you had to be a slightly different person Tuesday to Thursday last week were you conscious of that at the time? What did he say actually? He said you were laughing and joking with him on Tuesday and on Thursday with a boss. It's funny because it's something different isn't it? No one really expected it especially the players. But I think that's one thing I want to always bring is always want to bring a relaxed environment a kind of fun environment to be around. We work hard when it's time to work in between that listen you do. I've always been a player who loves laughing and joking stuff when you're at the right time. So that's the way it'll always be as long as I'm having a chance for you. Do you think that's important to get the best out of people because I'm sure some of the managers you've worked under were a bit more hard work some were a bit more laughing joke? Yeah and again I'll be the first to say when we're on the training pitch and I say I'm quite strict and quite vocal I want things done right because that's the way I've always been as a player. But I mean changing rooms and things like that. As long as you're doing your work in the gym and on the training pitch and working towards what happens on a Saturday that's all that matters. In between that set of footballers, set of lads who have 25 different personalities in there they all come together it's good fun. And obviously short term you're doing a job to help out the club but long term do you think the role of player manager is sustainable nowadays now that you've seen everything that's involved? I think it's sustainable when you've got obviously good staff members not around you, I think it is sustainable yeah. Do I believe it would be harder? I would also yes it would be harder for sure, Tuesday was part of that. But again it depends where you want to be if you want to be a player manager you want to play every single game and stuff then it would be hard. If you want to kind of dip in and out then I think it's sustainable yeah for sure. Is one of the habits just assessing yourself and whether you're worth a place in the team every week? You could put yourself in the team every week no one's going to say anything so that's a promise but no. Like I was playing in the games before I've decided to pull myself out of the team for the benefit of the team. If there's a time comes where I think himself you could do it with someone who has a knowledge or whatever the way certain qualities I bring to the team then I've got no question to put myself in there. But you know it's one of the ones that is trying to find the balance and that's probably always going to be trying to find the hardest balance for this is you know this is two weeks this is two months whatever it may be then it's trying to find that balance and that'll always be the case that'll be the same every single day I think that'll be game dependent injuries and so on and so on. I don't think it's a things that it's a hard one to kind of answer because it's every day is going to be different in my eyes. You've been at clubs before Kevin I think at Wolves in league one where there's this perception that they're too big for the level they're at and does this feel similar in terms of you know there's a vibe around the city there's a perception around the city that the club has to get promoted can you feel that does it feel similar to that time at Wolves? I think when you come on a Saturday at Valley of Pride there's a feel listen we're the biggest team in this league I think and I think the fans everyone's got a right for that because you've got 17,000 fans behind you so I think that's part of it all I think that's kind of that that's like right okay we should be doing we should be dominating we should be winning but unfortunately it doesn't work that easy sometimes and Wolves were a big one for it we I think we lost 4 on our own it was chaos it was but we then went 20 so it was like right okay it's fine so but like I think it is a hard one and it's trying to balance it the club we've been obviously disappointed last year getting the playoffs it's all about bouncing back and all these words about hangover from last season stuff I mean it's there's no hangover from last season that's football but yeah like I don't mind I think fans when people want to think we've got a right to be in the league above because you've put a lot of money into the club and you're bringing these fans home and away then like let them let them let them think that because as players we we know ourselves we should be playing at a level consistently by winning each games and giving ourselves a chance at promotion that's all that's all that they ask for and that's all that we can we look to give because we know ourselves that we should be up at that top in the table there's no no questions that's that's what I believe in I said this to the lads each time before the games I firmly believe and we're going out we're going out to win games and I firmly believe in a long time that we will be able to talk with that top of that league but yeah I think when people say we want to be too big for the league too big for the league maybe a different thing but I think like do we have a right to believe we belong higher than yeah the pressure I guess when it goes wrong can be quite crippling almost but if you learn to channel as you say you did with Wolves didn't you learn to channel that pressure and that expectation can it surge it can it motivate you a little bit as well I think I think and I've witnessed it at clubs and with certain individuals it can eat you up if you don't if you get caught up in it and if you don't perform and you start losing especially at home games if you're losing in draws and stuff where you're expected to win because you are expected to win that's that but you got to keep you got to keep that's why people play football and you don't want to you want to play football in front of 17,000 fans every week I think that's what we're here for like and that's why that's a huge reason why I joined because I know in the flip side of that when you're doing well teams are already teams come to the company of your stadium and they're half defeated before the balls even kicked and if they know you might be relentless on playing football and pressure and attacking and shots and goals then like it makes it a hard hard place to come simple as that Does the manager whether it's you or someone else does the manager inherit a squad that's that's ready to go ready to kick on do you think I believe so yeah I believe we've brought in good players in the summer not saying myself I'm saying all in the hole like I think like we've we've got good players we've had good players here I think I think that I think you've got a good mixture of everything here now I really believe that and I wouldn't sit here and I wouldn't sit here and sit and and like in line to be honest with you I say that in front of the lads I think you've got I believe you've got the best squad in the league and that's the way we've got to play we've got to believe that as players as individuals and as a team we've got to believe that otherwise why are we here at the end of the day so I believe that I'll always believe that and if I'm a player as a player I believe that 100% every single time I go in the pitch I think we're going to win as a manager I think even more so