 You can tell me. Graham, nice to see you again. I hope you're well, I guess, a day on after last night. How do you feel looking back on the game? My initial thought was that we worked as hard as we could. We gave a soft goal away after being the most positive team in the first, you know, eleven, twelve minutes. Mae chyreu mynd i ddechrau eu gan frym, byddwn i'r gafodd i'r gwlad arall, ti'n mynd i'r unon ni allwn i niad, a'i fynd i ddiogel yr argrifetau Cymru. A'r ganddoedd yma, mae'r ganddoedd yn unig ar neud hefyd. Fy rydyn nhw, mae'r amser yn ni'n hyn oedd wedi'u gondloedd. Dwi'n amliad i'n unig o ddweud honni. Mae'r ganddoedd gennymai nesaf a'u ganddoedd i'n yn aml�u'r ganddoedd i'n gwyd. cyd-feyddiaeth a'r dda, ac mae'r ddechrau'n gweithio yn dweud, ond byddai chi fydd yn cael ei gael ysgolwydden nhw'n cael ei gael y few o'r gael. Yn y gallai o'r gael ar y gael, yn ymdilladau a'r gael, ac mae'n mynd i'n eu hyfrifau'r gael. Yn gyfaf yma hynny'n gael y maes ysgolwyddon, yn i'r gael ar y gael, mae'r gael yn gwiaith hwnnw'n gael, wedi'u ffai'r margylch yn holl y gael. Mae'n fwy, mae'n dweud o ddwyafodol i ddweud, a'i cofnod yr ysgol wedi'i iawn, oen rywbethio, ond mae hwnnw ddweud o'r unig, ond mynd i ddweudo'r perwyddau gwledig o'r dweud, yn dweud ac mae dwi'n ei ffyrdd o'i blaenau yn orethu, fel byddoch chi'n mynd i'ch gael, yn y maen nhw. Mae'n mynd i ddweud dechrau y mae llawer o'n neud i'r modd ar y teimio. oes ymddangos a chynnwch, a mae gennym eich cwyrdd, ac mae gynnyrch yn ddechrau. I ddechrau, ond ymlaen nhw ymddangos ac mae'r cyfnod yma yn y ddechrau. Nodd ymddangos i Gwylwyr ar gyfer y tach yn y gyfnod, y rhai record yma. Mae'r ffordd yma, mae'n oedd yn fwy o'r gweithio'r gweithio. Mae'r gweithio'r gweithio o'r gweithio, ond mae'n gwybod yn gwybod mewn gwybod yma. Felly mwy yn bwysig a gwelio yno ac mae gen i'r ffordd nesaf sy'n rhoi ddoch, Ac nid oeddwn i'r llyfr ar hyn ar gyfer'i bwysig sy'n bwysig a trwy ffordd i'r ffordd i'r bwysig. Ond mae'n gore'n ffordd yn dweud o'r gwrs ac mae'n gore yn bwysig ar gyfer'i bwysig a mor hyn yn gweld. Mae'n meddwl y pwysig. Mae mae'n myrsig aethau, nid yn peidio, rydyn ni'n gwneud'n gweithio ar y pwysig aethon. Roeddiwch yn cael atdaniaeth. Mae hynny nolodd yn cael ei wneud oes y cwrdd, a bod oedd y tro a'r bynnag yn cael ei gweld. Ond ei wneud oes y 1rhyw, byddwn ni wedi'u cael ei wneud. Byddwn ni i ei fath o gyfathiau, ond wrth gwrs mae'n iawn i'r blynedd i'r 1rhyw. A'r cyfrannu hynny'n cyfrannu pethau, mae'r cyfrannu hynny'n cyfrannu mewn hwnnw yn ceisio'r cyfrannu. A gallwn i'r llunion yma, o'r last three matches to make a seed this dramatic turnaround in terms of that? Well, the third game out at the forest green we conceded after 20 seconds and then 50 seconds or so from a set piece, which our record from set pieces has been superb up until the last three games. I don't think we've conceded any in the league or very minimal. And then they scored penalty in the last minute when we were just chasing everything. So that weren't happy with the goals, but it wasn't a porous performance as in. There was lots of chances for the opposition, but certainly Mansfield and Notts County, they've scored three and five past us, but they've had lots of chances or shots and threats. But the facts speak for themselves, like I just said with Notts County, how many they've scored over the last two seasons and Mansfield are currently at the top scores in the division, scored more than 30 more than what we have. So we've probably hit after the low of getting beat by forest green at home and being a hurtful day for us, we've come up against the two highest scoring teams in the division and we've made bad mistakes and to concede important times at the start of the game, which I've probably said two months ago or so that was damaging us at home, but we had eradicated that and we did it really well certainly throughout the league campaign and unfortunately it's come back to bite us in the last three games. I think we've conceded 10 in the last three games, but in the previous 12 we've only conceded six, so that's a massive shift. I at me long term, I'm not worried about the defensive structure of the team and how we're going to perform going forward. It's more the goal output at either end that we really have to work hard to improve. How do you then, as the manager, when we are in a period of adversity, go about playing and picking your players up and especially maybe that forward line that you've touched on, just instilling that confidence once again? There's a few things you do, you analyze things, you feed back to the players, you show them at their best, you show them how they get their best chances and where they're most clinical. You do it on the training pitch, if you can get the time on the training pitch, it's extremely difficult with the call-offs we've had. We've just been rammed with game after game after game and so that's limited our time on that, but ultimately it's just through hard work. There's no shortcut, you can't just show a two minute video and everything comes back, you have to work hard at it, you have to practice. That's why we train, but when the training time is limited you have to find other avenues of doing that and ultimately the players have to dig deep to believe in themselves as well. I would hope they know what we think of them as people and as players but sometimes you have to have a bit of self appreciation as well and don't do yourself down all the time and have a negative attitude. So we're trying to make the players believe in themselves and give them the tools to be able to have that themselves going forward and not just rely on other people to give them. We've seen a couple of unbeaten runs during your time at the club already, Graham. I have Sam Walker earlier today. It's a seven point gap to that top seven. You have a game in hand, season coming to a close. Do you still believe in this group of players that they can get into those playoff places? After a week we've had, I'm not going to talk about the players. I think we have to take each game as it comes. It sounds silly after the three defeats we've had at home in the last week but factually the points are there to be won. Factually we're not a million miles off it but the games are running out and we have to perform better at both ends of the pitch than we have done in the last three games. It's irrelevant but I believe in going for it and never stopping, never quitting. I think we're trying to instill that in the players and the team and build a culture and environment here over time that there's a never-so-say-die attitude and these are the moments when you can show wherever you've got it as a group of players and as a group of staff. It's all about action, speaking loud in words but I'm not a fortune teller. I can't look to see what those remaining eight games will look like but if the players' work is how they did last night and we have a bit more quality at both ends then we give ourselves the best chance of finishing the season strongly. I guess in a way I totally take the point by the way on the last three games but it's kind of in a round way it is just winning the next game and seeing where it takes it. Let's just try and win the next game where it takes us, I don't think it's going to change too much right now. It's going to take all eight games realistically to do anything spectacular. But thinking about eight games in one go is too much so we just need to focus on the next one and it's a local game. It's away from home. We had an excellent result in the last away game and we have to draw confidence from that and if we work as hard as we did last night because we did we just need to improve the quality certainly in the final third and that comes from the whole team not just the front guys. We have played enough from set pieces this year as a team and defenders go for them midfielders going for them. We haven't scored many from outside the box so that's something we need to improve as well so there's a responsibility on the whole squad and the whole staff and me included to improve that goal output because goals win games. The owner was there for the game with Mansfield and I'm sure a lot of people are wondering have you had a chance to speak face to face with Stefan and if so what was the remit of those conversations? I met him the day before. I haven't spoke to him since Saturday but I met him the day before which was the first time I met him face to face and we had in this office actually had a real good chat for a couple of hours with Stefan and Ryan and he just wanted to get my thoughts on what I've found at the club and stuff like that and what we think we need to be successful in the future. That was a normal owner-manager chat really and it was disappointing for him to be here on such a disappointing day for us without a shadow of doubt but I don't think that's real us. I really don't. Like you said about runs of form we've gone six wins on the bounce first time since the 80s and then a period we're out winning then I think four weeks ago we were top of the form table then we've lost three home games on the bounces we're capable of really good results and really good form but then we're also capable of doing what we've done in the last eight days and that's what we need to eradicate we need to tap into what we did in those good runs against good teams and being the lead one teams in the EFL trophy and stuff like that we need to tap into those performances and find the consistency to be producing them. I'm sure and by no means I must say Graham it's a quick fix but in your head I'm sure there are factors in your mind that you would like to improve in on the medium term to take the cut to the next level and to get that consistency that we've talked about. The next level is consistency we've hit real good periods of form so the teams has proved in certain spells that we can win games and against very good opponents MK Don's here, Wrexham away Derbyway, tough games which we've done exceptionally well but we've let ourselves down in other games and certainly at home it's no secret that's where Achilles Heal has been this season and probably in seasons past as well so it's important that we fix that if we want to be a successful club so we still have a few games here and we have to do our best to finish the season strongly at Valley Parade we know we've let ourselves down we've let the supporters down results wise in the last three games without a shell of a doubt we understand that but there is a determination I feel from the group to finish the season in a good way. That all begins at Harrogate this coming Saturday team news wise Graham have you had a chance to have a bit of assessment on Alex Gilead after he came off last night? He's gone for a scan today so he's actually currently there now because of the time issue between games we don't really want to wait three, four days to see how he settles down so he's gone for a scan today we should have the result by tonight hopefully and then see where we are with him so fingers crossed it's not another injury to an important player because I think we've had our fair share of those Matty Platt on the bench last night how close is Matty to a star? He's trained today he's trained today which is the second or third day on the bounce with us he'll train again before the weekend and then we'll assess wherever we feel it's appropriate for him to start or to be in contention for a star or he might need another few days we'll speak to Platt himself we'll get the data from training but he's chomping a bit to get back in but we've got to do the right thing and not lose him again by pushing him too early Aragut, the opponents this weekend have had a pretty remarkable season haven't they? They're one of the teams in that talks for the top seven just what do you make to them the job Simon Weaver's doing there? He's been there for a long time brought him up from the National League I remember playing against him when we got promoted from that league we had two real good battles against him and he brought them into the league maybe it was the season after and done a fantastic job he's had a really sustained period of time to build to change the team to build the culture of that club and it's in his identity isn't it really so you have to look at what Aragut have done as a whole and you've got to take it out for the work they've done any team that gains success however it's achieved you've got to say well done I know for you obviously turning that home form round is a massive priority brain but given the last three games is it welcome that you've got a trip on the road this weekend? I don't want to feel like that I don't want to think like that I think we there's an issue or problem running away from it and it's not the answer it's not the way to fix it it's not the way to be better but we need to see every game of football as an opportunity to win a game and feel good about ourselves and restore the pride from the supporters and the belief and all those sort of things so I'd avoid that feeling coming into my head into the players head so I don't want to do that we can't be apprehensive about playing at our own stadium nothing good comes from that there's an issue there there's a problem we have to fix it Finally from me it's March of the day between now and the match at Harigur I understand you're not taking part in the first leg Graham an amazing cause a brilliant cause just how important is it not just for this football club but for the wider community to support causes like this? Yeah look it's something that's bigger than football really isn't it what the cause is people's lives people who have sort of been a part a massive part of football clubs and careers and other people's lives and you know Steve and Derby in particular for Bradford City you know his picture is still in the changing with a quote from him which I find quite inspiring when I read it every time I'm in there and you know that's it almost like I actually looked at the image of him last night leaving the stadium and thinking that's serious issues at least that's not to be a little what we're trying to do here but that's people's lives so the cause is unbelievable really and obviously Marcus Stewart as well myself and Chris Lachetti both played with Marcus at different clubs and Lenny John Rose who we both knew and of course he passed away from the same disease a couple of years ago so yeah it's an important sort of illness there's a lot of research that needs to go into it and help and for that to happen then needs to be cash and you know so everyone who can help support the whole weekend you know their support is more than grateful for it you know everyone is grateful for it because it's it's a sad state of affairs but if anything that we can take from what Stephen and Marcus are going through it's how they're facing that problem head on and doing something about it and being proactive about it I think that's we can take great inspiration from that I feel Best look for the game on Saturday and best look for the leg on Friday, cheers Graham Thank you Hi Graham I was going to say I'm losing up a lot but you're saying about obviously not making a thing about home or away but it is only a third away game in 12 which is you know it's sort of a bizarre way in the fiction that I've landed isn't it It is yeah it is and look it is difficult at the moment look it's not a reason but you know playing on that pitch every three days I think five or last six games have been on it it's not helped the pitch at all you know and it's it's not been easy for the players to play on it but it's not an excuse for the last three results it hasn't made us make the decisions we've we've made in those games but yeah it's I think you know the it is quite unusual I think you just get used to being home away and getting that sort of that feeling you know the different environment but we haven't had that it's been pretty solid here but the results haven't been good enough for us to have a or to be in a position really right now to achieve what we wanted to do you know we still have to try and do that with the remaining games but you know we've had a cup semi-final which is obviously the first time we've been to that level as a club you know the semi-final of that competition and fortunately lost it in heartbreaking circumstances but and it's been a difficult run since then you know with the games but like I keep saying we have to over 10 months and 50 games you can have so many different challenges and hurdles to overcome and we have to be good enough as a squad to overcome them so whatever's thrown our way we have to take it I was going to say you mentioned the way you can go and I was going to ask you do you think that perhaps took a bit more out of people than you anticipated at the time in terms of this appointment having done so much and going so close to see it yag to way like it was could well be it was a big game it was a massive opportunity for us we played exceptionally well and like you say it was you know how we did lose it it was good wrenching really but I don't know I didn't want to make a big deal of it I knew the feelings we had the same feelings we all wanted to win we all wanted to get to Wembley final but for me you have to swallow the pain you have to deal with it and you have to crack on and not feel sorry for yourself I'd be disappointed if that is the underlying reason that we've had a dip in form I wouldn't be surprised because like to say we're all emotional people with our feelings we all want to be successful but if we want to be successful we have to be stronger than that because disappointments happen all the time in football and you have to overcome them and obviously going back on the injury front I was going to ask about Sam Stubbs because obviously he got the whack is it a bit more serious than what you just thought at the time? He's got a small fracture just above his eye so he's he's seen a specialist he's going to see another one today for a second opinion so we're going to hear what that is, whether he can continue to play whether he needs any surgery whether he needs to wear a mask which players have done so we're just going to hear that back he's got the appointment it's a little bit of another situation at minute it's a bit of a which you're trying to get to the bottom of it for the sake of Sam more than anything because we don't want to risk anyone's health but it was from that that challenger against Doncaster which amazingly he got booked for all the time and unfortunately the injury was the other way round and as you say it's prospect form because he got back in the team and he was playing well and then through no fault of his own it's only yet away and nothing but we've we've been continually losing the head of players since we got here with Jengy Walker Alex Patterson and Jeng Young coming back and then losing him Tory Wright my plat Sam Stubbs it's been a lot senior players and recognised players but especially when it's contact injuries happen all the time they're powerful of course it's a physical game and Stubbs you got it from putting his body on the line and trying to win the ball but there's things muscle injuries and that I think weak and the players can help themselves to be better but it was unfortunate for Stubbs and Ash Taylor how close is he getting now is he getting a bit closer? Yeah he's getting a bit closer but we still haven't seen him on the grass with us so I still think he'll be a few weeks yet because he's been a little while now I think he tried it a couple of weeks after doing it and thought he could train again but it just got worse so probably setting back a little bit so yeah a few weeks I feel and you mentioned Jake Young so there might have been outside chance that he might be back again this season how's his progress doing? Yeah he won't be back I don't think because of the nature of the injury and he's had surgery we don't want to risk maybe for one or two games unless we're absolutely 100% sure that there's no potential further damage this is in the future because he's nowhere near right now but Mugut says and the information says that he'll be next season I think for the long term benefits Jake that's probably the best course of action anyway but I could be surprised and he can get back before the end of the season it'd be great I'd love the option to have him available but we have to do the right thing by the player as well So all being well you had a project for you in the sense that you could have him back start of the season I see him in the future in the plans because we brought him back we had the period where he came back we were in injury he was out for three weeks then he got on the team and we were really excited about the potential for him because the whole air purpose of January was to improve our firepower we brought Jay Jung back we brought Tyreken we scored a couple of goals but there's a way on international duty unfortunately we've tried to improve the issue that we had with the players but unfortunately we lost Tyreek for another month and then Jake again so when he's ready for pre-season for me it will be like having a new player because I've had such a living time working with him unfortunately