 Sean you've not got long to get ready for your next game. Is that a good thing or a bad thing now? Good in the sense that you're back on it the mindset changes quickly a Roll call Sunday, and then moving forward and getting the team prepped again So we want you know, we want the team to be ready and raring to go They know the fixture list the challenge of it is when you've got so many injuries that obviously challenges it because you know recovery time Fitness availability, etc. Etc Seems an awful long time since Fulham came here start the season back in August What have you learned about them this season? Well, I think that a sliver start this season because I thought we were excellent against them They got a result. I thought we played very well against them in the cup here and they got a result Which is no idea. Obviously. I think they've grown into the season. I think they've found a bit more Balance to how they play and how they manage. I imagine wants them to play So I think they've grown into the season basically so they definitely I mean they've generally got a good home record Never easy going away in the Premier League anyway, but our way our way record Sorry strong so we want to go down there and whatever team we can put together We want a team that can win a game and I believe in all these players regardless of injuries from a management point of view Having having lost at home in the cook tonight. How difficult a job Have you got to raise spirits and sort them out mentally? That was a different ball game. I think The cups are different mentality anyway Well, I said it in the last round is you feel in the crowd as well. It's a different feel to the cups It's no one's fault. It's just is the players feel different. It's not the Premier League. It's a different buzz about it It's a different feel about it. Obviously the latter stages it grows in its intensity as belief But there's a different feel to it So I think the players will be a naturally responding differently I want them to of course on Tuesday night when we play it for them Thank you, Stuart Surely mentioned earlier on there that Tuesday is going to be your one-year anniversary in charge I just wanted the multiple challenges that you have faced Have you actually improved as a manager in that time because of those? Challenges, you know what you feel you have but it doesn't matter in football It's only matter what you think and what the fans think it doesn't really matter about me You know the truth of any management in football that is is The way that I think I've worked with what we've had to try and deal with I've been pleased with that for me as an individual and Internally, I know the work that's been done But externally no one actually cares fans. Do you want you to win a game about about the finance and above about ten points I just win some games mate. That's it end of story. You're the same. So Internally, yes, I've been happy with what I've done and yes some of the stuff that I've learned about this club about myself and dealing with things Now I handle things externally. I'm well aware after a lifetime in football. No one cares People just say win a game mate end the story. That's where it ends. And that's my mentality. You have to win to succeed So today I'm disappointed. It's simple as that Well, we were debating this a couple of weeks ago about the ten points. Have you had the ten points on them factually? Yes, so and I think the feel of the team. Yes, and I think the energy and the commitment and the cause and all that yes quality generally yes, I think Flexibility of the sides try and find it was our win. Yes, so a lot of good markers But when the ten points is not there, of course, we were going well, you know, no one tells the story really I'm right. He said why you can't keep arping on about it I don't like arping on about it facts of facts or one point outside of the relegations That's the fact so let's go on with the facts, of course at the back of your mind You've got that nagging out. You know, have we moved forward? Yeah, I think we have as a team and as a club We have in different ways, but the facts still remain the same. That's where the table says we are You touched on the good away record as well. I think it's the sick best away record in the Premier League No, not particularly it needed changing so it did some subtle change not radical challenges But it needed changing that's quite obvious the last couple of seeing lot of noise What I got about there were a lot of noise about a lot of things by the way a way record being one of a list of about 20 That we've tried to out to solve We have somewhat Then finding the balance with the home form and getting wins at home I think the performance and I have actually been better often than the away record at the way Performances, but we didn't get the results particularly early season You know is Some ways you've got to find results home or away You want both to be right quite obviously, but we have adapted the away form and got stronger Do you have any knowledge of the extent of Andrew Gomez's injury yet? Yeah, it's a calf It's not gonna be fit this week. It's gonna be a matter of time We don't know how long yet, but it's definitely a calf injury He's had a couple of them over the last few months and been very difficult and it's a it's a loss to us because I think you've seen he was Showing he wants to adapt to what we're doing and play for us And he scored a great free kick and look sharp as he was getting fitter and then he gets injured again So it's really frustrating for him and frustrating for us I Sean just come back to the the one year anniversary really you've outlasted Frank Lampard You've outlasted Rafa Benitez, and you're closing on and slow I suppose that talks about how how tough it's been here just to get 12 months on the board really Yeah, I mean well take some heart from that Well, like I said earlier, you know, generally there's a lot of expectation it, you know And the expectation for the thrust for it now seems to be really powerful there And I imagine them all matters have all been Lorded when they came in and then get them out, you know, and that's the way it goes and then the ownership makes a decision I'm hoping to not be one of them statistics But that's the way it goes I'm working very hard to make sure that we stay in there to give a chance to build But I never really fun if they want you long enough They'll keep you and if they don't they don't and the ownerships have got a choice Do you stick in and stay strong because you believe they're the right person or do you change this club has changed? Many times over the last whatever seven years They might change me who knows, you know, you can't guarantee it clubs like this because of their record Suggestability is we're making strides And I think we're doing a decent job of remodeling and remoulding particularly financially the team's performing But like I said earlier at the end of the day, no, I'm really cares they get a little bit But they want you to win that's what you just don't win it They're winning enough Sean from what you've seen in the first half of the season and in training What are the main areas of improvement for this group of players as it stands now? continued development We've been unfortunate with injuries, but the growth of players who are on the edge coming in that's going to be important It seems with the injury record We've improved the injury record by about 10% from previous scenes. We've been pleased with that But we're still missing a few key injuries It's more a continuation of the kind of Consistency of what we do, you know, we spoke to the place funny enough that we did a one-year kind of review And that was part of it saying look we've got to there, but what gets you it doesn't get you there So therefore we've got to keep adding. It's not about right. We're okay now It's about we've got to keep growing We've got to keep pushing forwards and that's from a it's a daily thing You know just getting that mindset keep pushing and pushing and pushing you take some knocks like today That's the way it goes making sense of it moving forward But believe in what we're doing. I think there's a high belief level in what the team here internally are doing And then it's judged by some results as I've just said, but we know internally there's a shift forward And now it's about keeping that going and maintaining the consistency in the belief and keeping going when you say go When you say go from there to there Do you see that growth within the current group of players or will that need to be so there's already a market I think there's already been that Obviously, there's some adjustments in the summer but some of the players that were here I think there's a definite growth in them from last season when I got here to wherever they are now in a year What my point is that's got to continue because it's it's highly unlikely this month. There's gonna be loads of money We all know that so therefore it's an internal growth You know, you get we're not looking at external players and all that because it's well, it's unlikely So therefore it's internal growth. You know how how we work with the players How are they working with each other? What's the ownership level of the group? Are they pushing each other as well as us pushing to the fans get involved? Yes, they do here You know good bad are indifferent. They're involved So all them things have to be in in with the group and the mentality and just specifically on the Fulham game on Tuesday I expect any players back back for that game I doubt it Close calls on a couple, but we can't we can't keep losing players So if it's close calls, we might have to go against it just by the nature of well We can't keep losing players as I said So I doubt it is probably gonna be a very similar group and close calls Who would that be? Well, I shame us I mean young is to it you only probably would give them another week, but the needs must You know at the moment with with so few bodies But shames is probably the one a bit closer Yes, we'll have to make a judgment call on that Carl Hey, Sean. Hi the cliche rolled out on days like today is Now concentrate on the league. I'm not suggesting the focus has been divided between competitions But there's a clarity of now purpose and target help in any way Um, I think I'd like to think I made it clear that the cup competition has been important I think we put our sides that can win games We're showing that in the other trophy or chance to go through and you know penalty changes that Um on this one, we're playing side today and like I said for 15 minutes or those an ugly affair I thought 15 minutes. We look the more likely um Somewhat, you know that's parked you haven't got replay and you've got another game Or you haven't got another game because you haven't gone through and all that So, you know that the game show has has knocked us a bit in december That's quite obvious with the loss of bodies through injury So I suppose it gives you that kind of clarity of focus that your game schedule is what it is Rather than the cup but the mentality really was still to win So I'm not parking in that sense. You know, I'm disappointed and then but we've got to park it quickly because we have got a premiere league game on Tuesday Finally Sure, sorry just less than a week left to transfer when do you expect it to be quiet until next year? Oh, I would I'd be surprised if it wasn't pleasantly Um, but the quiet joke at a part that the winds been very quiet so far. You know, there might be a flurry them I can't remember the number but it's around 40 million at a minute, which is pretty inert off So whether that's all I don't well I don't know what it's to do with it might be to do with the 10 points Everyone's going all we might have to put the brakes now I don't know but there seems to be a reason why it's slow And our part and that is unlikely. I would suggest that we're gonna add to that We've only got two senior midfielders fifth the minute on our and garner. How much are you gonna have to wrap them up and cotton ball? And if it is what it is, there's no point in me crying it and See it. There's no way of changing it. Like I say, it's highly unlikely. There's funds available to change it So we keep working with the players we've got we keep pushing them as hard as we can without Taking them too far quite obviously we're having to maximize their their physical abilities and their way of playing That's the way it goes