 Brought to you by DIS, keeping companies connected with cloud-based solutions. Come on, City! Hi there, Clive, it's Adam from BBC. How are you? I'm not bad at you. Very well, thank you. Very well, yes. Thanks for doing this. No problem. The first time I spoke to you, so congratulations on the run you're on. It's impressive. Yeah, yeah, it's obviously a nice feeling. Yeah, brilliant. Can we start with team news then ahead of Mansfield? We know Andy Cook's not available for you, is he? But anything else you can tell us? Not really. Obviously it was a good win and the only thing that really changed is Cooky's unavailability. We've got a decision to make on who to put in his position and we'll hopefully make the right call. What are your options there and how are you thinking? Obviously we've got a lot of different options in that position. Obviously we've got Danny Roe who played before Cooky arrived really and he was the nine that was playing most games. Obviously he got Clayton, he was very experienced and still causes threats to the opposition. We've also got Romain as well. We've got Charles Vernon who can play in that position so we've got options in that position, yeah. Can I ask you about some of the other players? How close have they to return? Like Bryce Zana and Lee Novak for example? Bryce, I said it last week as well. He's around a two week mark we believe. He's currently outside when the first team are training and he's doing little bits with the physios. So we're ticking him over and looking for a possible return as soon as possible. And how about, sorry? Sorry, I was just going to answer the Lee Novak one as well. We had a little bit of a setback with Lee and he's probably not going to be available for the next few weeks. So that makes it even more impressive, does it not, that you've managed to adapt despite the injury situation? Yeah, it's something that every team has to deal with and we're no different with that. The January window was really important for us to strengthen in depth and we've managed to do that in the positions that we needed. How far is Billy Clark away from maybe starting, Connor? Obviously he came on in the last game and had an impact and like I said before, he's a great character. So we're looking to build his minutes up. He was a starter before his injury so he'll be looking to get back into the team as soon as possible but we've got a job to do and make sure he returns safely. And Gareth Evans wasn't starting on Saturday. What's the situation with him at the moment? Yeah, he went off and the game before last and he sort of had a little niggle and went down the tunnel. He's not a bad one. I said we had some good news on it so hopefully soon, touch and go maybe for tomorrow but we'll see. And just on one more plate, Jordan Stevens, how's his progress been with you and you're finding out since his arrival essentially from Leeds? Yeah, John's is a really talented player and he's having to fight for his minutes. He's had a few opportunities and I think he just got to keep impressing when he does come off the bench but what I would say is his mentality when he does come on and we've been often in front in the game and he's come on and had to really work for the team and do his defensive part and which he's more than happy to do as well. How much did you learn from your side at the weekend, Conniss? Because I know you've talked about it being an ugly winner such but you can find beauty in that, can't you as well? Yeah, 100% when you look at the mental attributes of the players and what they have to go through and when teams are throwing a lot of bodies in the box players have to adapt quickly and respond to those problems and find the solutions. I probably would say personally the performance in the last 20 minutes in terms of the organisation wasn't probably where it needed to be. The players are aware of that but I think from the mentality and the grit that they needed to take to win the game was top draw like you say, yeah. Got to have chatted to Ollie before he was quite an impressive individual really and he's talked about obviously feeling since he's come into the club quite recently but analysis is a huge thing to say. Would you say that you and Mark are particularly like the new breed of coaches now that are totally on top of all the stats and analysis and the useful data if you like? I think we just found a way of working. You go on courses as coaches and you learn new things and you start to adapt and find what works for you. I probably wouldn't say that we're a new breed or anything like that. We just like knowing as much as we can about the opponents and preparing as well as we can. What do you think then has been the biggest influence that you've had because it has been some incredible turnaround? In terms of... To make this sort of winning mentality and to get the team playing how they needed to play to get the results in this division because it wasn't happening before. There's probably a lot of factors involved. We can't put it down to just me and Mark and the staff, the players have got to perform. Hopefully we've given them some clarity and they've gone and done a job but again we've had the window and we've tried to strengthen and make sure that we've got players who are on the bench who can impact the game and change the game and I think the camaraderie around the place and the building is really good and people get on and everybody who's in the building we had a choice. We wanted everybody to work as hard as they can to go over and beyond if that's a staff member if that's a player. We want to instill that you've got to work for what you get so that's probably the biggest thing the winning mentality and the competitive drive. Are you expecting Mansford to be far different from the side that Brad played early on in the season and won pretty well actually? Yeah, obviously they've got a new manager who's been in there for a couple of months now I think and they went on a fantastic run and we've seen a lot of them wearing press by how they play and the energies that they use so I think again it's going to be a real tough test. And just finally Conor, the next thing will be managing expectations weren't it if this run continues because everybody's talking about how close you are to the top end of the table rather than being at the bottom. Yeah we just keep level, we keep grounded we keep approaching the next game the same as the last in terms of trying to win trying to be positive and doing our best to perform. Good luck with that Conor as well. Thank you very much. Hi Conor. Hi. As you say, you're taking it every game as it comes just only looking to the next game but the agreement when you came in was to save the club from relegation out in the Football League and pretty much you've done that and certainly in terms of points in the league position you're closer to the top of the table at what point do you reassess the goal of what you want from the club this season? I think again with the mentality that we have and everybody in the clubs in the same boat where we're not getting too ahead of ourselves in any way at all we're again approaching every game in the same manner where we go out there and we give our best if things change down the line and things happen we might potentially have conversations but ultimately our goal is to win the next game and have that mindset and that's how we're working. With the way that the season has gone since Christmas obviously teams are coming as already did and making it more difficult to play how pleased have you been with the fact that you're still winning games? You can grind without as well as with great football? Well it's brilliant. Again we talk about solutions and finding the right balance and there's some games that we've not had much of the possession or we've been dominated and there's other games where we've dominated possession and still won so I think the key for us is to make sure we're a winning team if that's by playing a certain way we can adapt and we can change our game plan to affect the opponents hopefully and that's what we're trying to do as a team. It seems that the team are willing to adapt during the game as well and that must be another place in fact for you and Bart that they do take on the instructions of giving them. Yeah it's brilliant for the players to be able to adapt and change against different formations and adapt their style of play against different formations so the guys have been first class hopefully they're starting to understand what we want from them and the tactical way of playing and I think over time they're just going to get better at it. So it's become muscle memory almost that they know what to do in each situation. I think when you put a team together and I'm not talking about Bradford City but if you see a team that's played together for a number of years they start building those relationships and building that chemistry where they know each other's games and our job is to try and do that quickly. Thanks very much. Good luck tomorrow. Thank you. The last 20 minutes as you said then perhaps the team went away from a little got a little bit complacent. Is that something that you've had to address just sort of remind players that not to sort of think the job's done just because it looked comfortable up to that stage? I don't necessarily think it was because of the they didn't want to. I think it was more of the case it was quite a heavy pitch and there's a big backlog of games where you can be mentally fatigued as well as physically fatigued and I felt towards the end we looked like we just lost a little bit of concentration and they were quite random in the way that they were attacking which sort of changed how we had to defend and who had who kind of thing so again I don't think it was because of their mentality I just think it was maybe subconsciously affected for a period of time. And as you say but getting over the line it was just another way of winning a game wasn't that what you sort of said? Yeah massive for the guys and to come under that pressure and to still win the game there was a lot going on but again you can't question their their endeavour and their work rate and their aggression and their determination was all there to be seen. And inevitably when a team's doing well you get the speculation popping up I see one of the Sunday papers linking Elliott Watt with Harlow I mean is that something that you're going to expect if a team's playing well and performing? Yeah it's every club players play well they get linked with teams who are in higher leagues or in a higher position so Elliott's just got to and I know he's that kind of character where he's not going to let it affect him he's just going to make sure that he keeps putting performances in. I suppose it's a compliment for the team as a whole isn't it if players are getting noticed and whether there's anything in this talk at least it's for the right reasons they get mentioned isn't it? Yeah and that's part and parcel of it if you're going to get interest from other clubs from a higher division you're obviously doing something right but the skill is to do it consistently but again he's a Bradford City player and he's going to give everything to the cause. Yeah I suppose and with the younger lads in the dressing room it's just a case of make sure they don't get their heads turned by by things that might not be happening anyway. Yeah exactly and you know a rumour from a paper you know it might actually be nothing you know you do hear things that happen like that so we've just got to keep everybody level-headed and working on the next game and that's Mansfield tomorrow night. And as I was saying in terms of Mansfield obviously I mean you look at their run recently it almost sums up this league they had a fantastic winning run and then a spell without a win obviously got a win again at the weekend it's been like that almost all season for almost everybody hasn't it? Yeah it has and it's so tight between the places and in the league table so that's why you can't ever lose concentration on the next game this is why we talk about the next game as in it is because it's so important because as you see you know self end of eating top teams and things like that and you know we've got to be ready for playing the top of the table on the bottom you know we've got a job to do. I suppose you know people can get a bit wrapped up and quite excited by the form table obviously yourselves, Bolton, you know Tramir are doing great guns in recent games but you know it's probably a warning that that can suddenly change, doesn't it? Yeah you know I think Mansfield went on five on the bounce where they won and then they found themselves in a bit of poor form in the next couple of games so we just want to try and make sure that doesn't happen to us but ultimately we've got to be mindful that teams lose games and we're no different and teams are going to come here and be better than us on the day and we've got to roll up our sleeves and make sure we're ready for the fight yes, keeping companies connected with cloud-based solutions come on City