 Gweld yng Ngharu. Hei Mark. How are you? Yeah good thank you. What's the dynamic been like in training this week off the back of the huge result against Leeds? 39 points on the board and I guess the pressure valve that is trying to survive in the Premier League just gets released a little bit. Have you seen that in training? Have you seen more freedom about the players, a focused enjoyment perhaps? I've been impressed with them this week. Obviously they had a couple of days off after what was a big win for us and a big week. They've come back in, spoken about what the next four games need to look like for us. But of course they have the right to feel a little bit less pressure for the next four games. Looking forward to seeing them perform. Still a lot of points available to us. Yeah of course as the head coach of the team. Desperate to put as many points on the board as possible regardless of the situation. So yeah really want to finish the season strong and then take that into the summer break with us. Bournemouth's highest ever points total in the Premier League is 45 points. You're currently on 39 with four to go. So creating a new piece of history for this football club is still very attainable. Is that now the new target? No the target is still the same. It's still Chelsea. So yeah I mean people ask me points, tallies all season really what I felt we'd need to stay up and now you guys are trying to get me to commit to another one. But no it's just trying to beat Chelsea at the weekend. Add another three points and yeah my aim is to get as many as we can. If that's more than 45, more than 46, great. If it means we have to work our socks off and we can only get 42, 43 then so be it. But we'll be giving everything we can as we have done to try and put as many on the board as possible. 12 games ago you were second bottom in the Premier League with just 18 points on the board. What have you done to transform this club in that short space of time? Yeah no we haven't changed too much if I'm honest. I think we've spent obviously longer together. The lads are clearer on things that we work on and we've had a stronger squad available. Injuries, January arrivals, even some of the lads that are fit. They are even dom as I've had a stop-start season training wise. He's been fit for a lot of football matches but I've missed a lot of training. In the last few weeks he's trained almost every day and you see an extra sharpness to him when that's the case. So yeah just a few small things and the difference between winning and losing is so small. So fine the margins that if we just increase what we do by 5% it can easily turn losses into wins. So that's been the real key and now obviously the task is can we be consistent and can we keep it where it is. As you say Chelsea up next in the Premier League if someone had said to you when you first take over as Bournemouth manager that you would be able to go above Chelsea in this fixture what would you have said? Yeah of course I wouldn't have believed them. I think not because of where we are really but because of where Chelsea are. I think everybody in the country is surprised that it hasn't really happened for Chelsea with the high levels that they set themselves. It's been a disappointing season so far for them. But yeah I still think they'll be coming here with especially the players and an eye on next season and making sure they finish this season strongly. So they're obviously a dangerous team, fantastic players, watched a lot of their recent games and yeah obviously they've not managed to win one recently but yeah they still have some obviously they still have some world class players that can cause your problems. Obviously Frank's someone you know played against. Can you identify with the predicament that he's in at the minute because he's gone into that football club to try and help. They've lost six out of six. There was a period this season where you've lost six out of six and as a manager you're searching for answers, maybe trying to tweak things, change things. Can you identify with the situation he's in? I think it's a tough ask to go in there at the time he did. Obviously it's hard to know because obviously like you I hear noises that come out of there but you don't know how accurate they are so keen not to comment on it too much because I don't know enough. But from the outside looking in it looked like a tough ask for him. Grant Graham Potter is a fantastic coach and there still seem to be some issues there while Graham was there and yeah similar so Frank has gone in and hasn't managed to turn it around yet but yeah he's not been in there very long. He hasn't had much time to turn things around so I had a fantastic playing career. He's a good coach, seen enough of his teams even thinking back to when I was still playing and he was in charge at Derby that played some fantastic stuff. I managed to get Everton out of a sticky situation last season so yeah a lot of respect for what Frank has achieved in the game and looking forward to tomorrow I think it's the third time that gets a guy up against him this season. Obviously a lot of people will look at the table look at the form guide and they'll expect Bournemouth to perhaps be favourites win the game which sounds bizarre in itself. But are Chelsea still very dangerous bearing in mind they've got a squad that's worth not far off a billion quid they spent 600 million in two windows. Is that kind of an attitude very dangerous against the Chelsea side? Yeah we're definitely not favourites for tomorrow absolutely no chance. Chelsea are a very good side with fantastic players. It hasn't clicked yet. If it clicks tomorrow it's a tough afternoon for the lads and we need to be at 100% as we have been for the last few to give Chelsea a real good game. So yeah I think it would be silly of us or anyone to think that we're a better side than Chelsea going into this football match there and yeah they're still very very dangerous. Have you said fantastic players all over the pitch, world cup winners, Thiago Silva absolute superstar fantastic centre back so yeah they have a good side and when it starts to click for them I'm sure they'll be very very dangerous. And just finally from me nominated for manager of the month in April it's not bad? No yeah yeah of course I think I was more pleased for Tav and Dom really I think Dom's putting so much work this year. Obviously some of it has been fairly thankless earlier in the season where he was working he sucks off and wasn't getting too much reward obviously I was aware of the good work that he was doing but maybe from outside people wouldn't have been as much. So yeah for Dom to get some recognition for the work he's put in over the whole season really but for it to come to light in a month of April is fantastic and delighted for Tav cos he's spoke about him already I think in my last one but his impact on the points tally has been huge for a guy that's moved up to the Premier League for the first time. He's still very young has had a real tough season individually injury wise so yeah so to have had the impact and that goal against Fulham was huge it was a massive goal so for Tav and Dom to both be recognised and be up for awards this month is yeah credit to them and sort of shows the direction that the club has moved in recently. Thank you. Gary just staying on the Marcus Tavern here theme given that your main goal of the season has been achieved you think realistically we'll see him again this season with that hamstring issue? Yeah we're still not clear on exactly how long it would be even yeah so if we were scrapping for points and desperate to stay in the Premier League I'm still not sure we haven't had enough of the information back to let you know exactly when it would be. But of course now that the situation has changed there's no there will be no rush so if it's three weeks that he should be out and we need to take four we'll take four whereas before it was like right it's three weeks let's get him back for this game let's see if he can have an impact again whereas obviously that has changed. So yeah my real focus at this moment if I'm honest with Tav is to make sure he's absolutely spot on by a July the 1st and we can get a real good pre-season into him but that doesn't mean that we've seen the end of him this season it might be that it's a couple of weeks and he's feeling fantastic and yeah we'll see him back on the pitch. And would all of those things apply to Hamid Treore as well? Yeah slightly different because he's obviously Tavs is a muscle injury that he's had a few times whereas Junior was a contact where he's hurt his foot so it would be different there wouldn't be as much risk attached to putting Junior back on the pitch so hopefully I expect us to see Junior back on the pitch this season. And Keith Amor came off last week with a concussion issue given the concussion protocols and the sensitivities around that is he one that will not be allowed to play tomorrow? Yeah he's not available tomorrow so he's managed to do some training within the guidelines that were given but yeah as we played I think because the last game was Sunday last week it means that he wouldn't be available until this Sunday so he'll miss Saturday's game. Despite Mark's best efforts to coax you into setting a new record points target as a motivation for the rest of the season how much of this group how do they need tangible targets like the tangible target first of all is staying in the division. For the next four games what are you setting them is apart from being the best version of themselves and all that kind of stuff? Yeah so that's the main thing really around just yeah we're professional footballers and we've set ourselves a high level all season obviously sometimes just led to results sometimes it hasn't but let's not finish. When you come in at five o'clock if you've lost two nil you're still going to feel terrible lads regardless of whether we were on 39 or whether we were on 32 or whatever it is losing a football match. The other team getting the better of you, the other coach getting the better of me you're still going to feel terrible at that point so let's do whatever we can do and work our socks off to make sure we enjoy the next four weeks. And then as you say I think that the points tallies and things we can look to get to I think even in this game I don't think I think we could get to 21 points from 10 games in the Premier League which has never been done before either. So in this game alone against Chelsea if we can win I think it'll be the best points return for a 10 game Premier League run. So yeah there are some things that we can try and really set ourselves to achieve but all around Chelsea at the moment rather than looking ahead to Palace Man United and Everton. I saw an article and lots of articles at the stage of the season about lists about the season and things but it had you on the list as Bournemouth as one of the biggest overachievers of the season. Do you feel a sense of overachievement or do you find that a bit disrespectful? I understand why because I think everybody outside of Bournemouth definitely thinks we've overachieved. I expected myself and the group to stay in the Premier League so I mean yes it's all but done it's all but confirmed so yeah we've only achieved what I thought we would. Of course if we can finish the season incredibly strongly and finish high up the Premier League table maybe that is further than I thought we would go. I expected us to be in a scrap this year, I expected us to be in and around it, I expected us to show enough to get out of it but the fact that we've managed to remove ourselves slightly at this point probably puts us slightly ahead of the curve that many expected us to be on. And with your wins over Liverpool and Spurs and your performance at Arsenal of course has that shaken off the tag that many have had including some of us of course about the fact that these games against the likes of Chelsea have been free hits in the past but they shouldn't be any more? Yeah no I think it depends where you are I think because of our situation and we've had some disappointing results where you can lose at home to Crystal Palace because you don't perform or you go away to Brentford which people think oh yeah you could get something there and we haven't got much of a squad available so you have to try and take advantage of all of them. If it's Tottenham you find Tottenham on a slightly off day and you've got a great squad available to you, yeah it's today lads it doesn't matter who we've got it's literally let's put some points on the ball today so could that be tomorrow? Possibly Chelsea will have their own say and their own thoughts on how they go about it but from our point of view it's a home game. We've just won two on the trot and the squad's in a good place injury wise so yeah hoping that they can maintain the level that they've set recently. Finally for me Bill Foley was obviously here last week and was here for the Leeds game as well. I know it's been hard to fit in lengthy chats with him in the previous times due to your schedule but did you manage to have a good chat with him and have you put yourself a celebratory trip to Vegas? No I haven't booked any trips yet I think yeah it was good obviously for Bill to be here on such a big win for us that was fairly decisive probably in the status of the club and what league we're going to be in so yeah got to speak to him after. Congratulate each other on a job well done so far but yeah as is with football it starts again so yeah from this point onwards we're looking to finish the season strongly and then make sure that we start next season correctly. Big summer ahead, big preseason for some of the players so yeah not too many thoughts on holidays and trips for me just around the next four and then making sure that preseason is spot on and gets us ready for another big season.