 Gofyn o'r newydd yw'r 1st i'w ddiddorol? Ac fel yw'r newid yw'r newid yw'r newid yw'r newid? Ond y gallwn y cyfle fydd yn ddiddorol i'r newid a'r newid yw'r newid, a'i'r newid i'w ddiddorol i'i ddiddorol i'r newid. Maen nhw'n gallu ddiddorol i'r newid yw'r newid? Rwy'n fawr, gallwch chi'n gyd, aethwn i'n gwybod yw 9 o 8 oed. Dw i ddwi'n gynhyrchu'n 100 o'r newid yw 200 o'r newid yw'r newid. Ond nid oes i'w club ei bod yn ymwneud hynny. Ac mae'n rhaid o'i clwb ychwanegol, ond ydy'i gweld i amddangos. Rydyn ni'n rhaid i'w gyrfa y Lleodraeth Rhyw Llywodraeth, mae'r Cyflau Ffwrdd am ymwyaf yn ymgyrchau. Mae'r Hath yn ymgyrchol. Mae'r rhaid o'r cyffredin o'r cyffredin, ond mae'n gweld i'w gyrfa ymwneud. Gweithio'r digad yn iawn i'n dros am gyntaf. Leifydd yn y bod ni'n gweli жизнь, gennym ni'n mynd i'r gweithio. Ac, ond, mae'n gweithio a'n gweithio, gweld rhywbeth yn byw yn y modd o gweithio. Felly, mae'n meddwl, mae'n mynd i ddechrau i gynnau gweld iawn a'n meddwl i'ch cymryd. Mae'n meddwl, mae hynny'n meddwl. Maen nhw wedi gweld o'r gweithi maen nhw ac mae ar gyfer blannu'n perugi. Mae'n mynd i'n five yw'n cyfrif yn cael tu. You, James, you know what I mean? You go on your business courses and I'm not like that. If I go somewhere and I'm happy in my job and in my work, I'm happy with that. I was always the same as a player. I had lots of opportunities to go to leave Bradford as a player when I was a young kid to go to the Premier League and I was happy in doing what I was doing. It wasn't lack of ambition, I was just enjoying it and this time it's the same. But the big difference is more experienced manager now. I'm happy. I sort of say when I came back, a lot of people had misgivings or apprehensions. Now, we might fail. You know, still might not be a success, but I'm more able to cope with that this time round. There's no doubt about that because my focus is not an emotional one now. As much as I love the club, it's a football one. I'm fully focused on what to do here. I want to be here for a long, long time. I want the club to rise and be successful. But I've no fears of failure. I've just got to be positive in my mindset. What we're doing is the best we can. And I think in any walk of life, if you're doing the best you possibly can, you can't ask for any more than that. I think it's quite unusual for a director to be sat with a manager and do this because you know our long-term vision as a football club. And success and failure is quite an interesting concept because success, winning the league this year, isn't the real end-all for this football club. But the long-term progression as a stadium, as a fan base, you as part of the Bantams family, this lovely hashtag that we've got, is important. Bringing young players through like Ellie Sudson, Danny Devine, like you when you were here with Mark Ellis and John Henry, et cetera, is all part of our rich tapestry. So I'd like to think that you understand from everyone's point of view that this is a long-term journey that we're going on together. And that's quite exciting. We could win six or lose six, but it won't really matter as long as we're all trying to do the same thing together, do you know what I mean? That's right. As a collective, it won't matter to yourself and Eddie and the other people, it won't matter to me, I'll tell you if you lose six. No, I'll get your point, I'll take your point, I know what you're saying. But it is, listen, it's a football club you talked about, how well it's been built up, you know, underfill, getting promotion, getting to Wembley, steadily it's been an increase in improvement every season and that's what we've got to try to keep doing. But to get the amount of fans, I used to, I mean had a lot of success or, you know, the football club and the mother, we had a lot of success, you know, we got to a Scottish Cup final and I had 20,000. It's only a small town, but we can week out regardless how well we did and as I said, you know, we beat Celtic three times with their top team, I mean really good players they had, but we could still only get 4,500, 5,000. Now, I even used to say to Mrs, look, you know, Bradford had come on the telly and, you know, they'd have 3,500 travelling away. You know, look, we look at Bolton on his cell 4,300, the biggest away. So that, as a player, I always wanted to play for the biggest count, the guy I used to play for. Or, you know, go to a ground that's full, you know, it's great. And that's what we've got here, you know, we've got fantastic travelling army supporters. So for me, success, although everything's merited, you know, judged differently, is sending them home happy. If on a Saturday afternoon, this is from a football, you'll have a different aspect about commercial, whatever, and still as long as the club's progressing. But for me, at 10 to 5 on a Saturday, if people are getting off the back sides and saying, either way, when's the next home game, I want to get back, regardless of the result, that is a big thing. Ultimately, any manager at most clubs will be judged on results. But there is different ways to judge success. As you say, you might bring a player through. At Motherwell, my remit, if you like, was to sell a player a season and finish in the top 6, which, you know, to finish second, second and third were far, you know, what they expected, but we also still managed to sell a player. So there's all ways to be different. I mean, you look at Dario Gradi, when he was at Crou, you know, there may be, I've never got one, two promotions, but the players that came through that system were incredible. So that was success for that football club. And every other club will have their own ways to judge success. But to take your point, success on the park is great, and that's what we're after, to keep the supporters coming through return styles. But there's other ways in which you do well. And all the backroom staff, non-football staff do a great job here. Well, I suppose we're in the entertainment business at the end of the day. People come on a Saturday afternoon after having a long week at work to sort of let themselves go and enthuse, et cetera. And how important are the fans to you, Stuart, and the players? Cos I've always thought it cuts both ways. The fans will demand 100% effort, but you can't guarantee a result. But the fans, by return, should give the players 100% effort. If I sit on my lap all afternoon and go, I'm not going to cheer until you score. I'm not doing my job. You know, and we've got this atmosphere now, but often sometimes the fans will wait to be inspired. That's fine, but the players need to inspire and vice versa. Exactly. How important are the fans to you? 100%. I mean, we say that to the players nearly every game. You know, there's no guarantees, no matter how well will you play out there that will win a game. You might have a bad refereeing decision. You might have, you know, your goalie might let one through his legs. They might only have one shot. But what you can guarantee, or should be able to guarantee, is from the first whistle to the last whistle, you give everything you get. You jump as high as you can. You run as fast as you can. You tackle. You just put everything you can. And you don't come off the park going, you might come off the park saying, look, my crossing could have been better today, or my shooting could have been better. But you shouldn't come off and say, I've got out work today, I've got out run, I've got out four. It does happen. But it does go hand in hand with, sometimes the game will be stale, flat, and the players have to lift the crowd. On other occasions, and I've seen it happen here, the players are not great, and all of a sudden, someone clicks in the crowd, and they start getting behind the players, and the players rally. So it is, it's a, together, you can't do anything separately. The fans can't do it on their own. The players can't do it on their own. There's so many things behind the scenes that go to be a successful football club. But the support is, I mean, the game's about players. It's not about managers of course, it's about players. But it's for fans. If there's no fans, there's no game. I've always respected, I've been a fan all my life, and travelled home and away, and been up and down the country. And I've always given my support to the final whistle. And it's just how it's been. You get some clubs at Boo Boys. I could never understand that, booing before the game. He's actually played, he's got your shirt on, he's going out to represent your football club, and you're booing him. What's that doing for his confidence? After the game, or even 70 minutes in, 80 minutes in, he's missed a few chances. Slightly understand people having to go like that. But for me, a fan is a supporter. It can never help, can it? It can't help. Booing can never help to get a positive outcome. I think the thing is in supporter. Support, that's what it is. Now, and other frustrations, you go along. Now, if you think for whatever reason, you see somebody maybe not giving the commitment, then I can accept to that criticism. If somebody misses an open goal, it's human nature to shout him. But the lad's not meant to do that. You know, he wants to score. He just, maybe he's booed some wrong feet or whatever. But it's just human nature. But I think, I don't think we get that often here. I think expectations are high and right and so for what the clubs have done over the last few seasons. But I'm pleased the way we're going about the business, where the fans are reacting to the way we're playing. Yeah, we should have had a lot more points at home and all managers will say that, but I think we can look back and think we've dominated a lot of games and only took a draw. But that's for something that we need to improve on. On the fans issue, have you a message for the fans that travel in big numbers away and those that come on a Saturday afternoon here at Valley Parade? In terms of the season ahead, you mentioned there's going to be ups and downs. You mentioned that expectations are risen because of our great start. How can they play a part in this season? You mentioned yourself when you've come to the FA Cup games in recent years. We've got a special brand here and we've got a special support level. How can they support the players in you and the club on and off the pitch? What's your message to them? I think it's difficult sometimes when you're sat, you're coming, it's cold and you're not being entertained. But I think I'm sure there's thousands of people out there saying, let's give the players a little bit of backing and going through a hard time. I would try to do as a supporter and I've done when I did support. But I can't really ask too much from the fans because we've had fantastic support and I think we've come off at Swindon last week and we got B1-0. A lot of fans would have upped and left but I think the fans acknowledged the effort the players had given, the commitment they'd given, the good play they'd done and now we never come away with anything from the game and from to stay behind and clap the players off. I thought that would have mutual respect. The players went over and the fans and that certainly night and day is what it was like at Notts County eight, nine years ago. But I think there's a bond that's been built up with the current lads that have been here. The senior ones we've already mentioned you like Hanson and Derbys and the lads that have been here for a long time. But also they've got new heroes now and players like your Nicky Laws who've come in, obviously Josh Cullen's been here last season on loan. But there's new players, Nike Purse or Vince a lot, you know, who've come in to the side and are doing terrifically well. Just keep... As we say to our players go to the first whistle to the last I think it'd be good if our fans came today with it to the last game and hopefully that will be bringing a success. But there will be times where things won't be all rosy and we'll go through tough periods but I think that's when we need them more. Everyone can... It's easy to support when you're winning and clap when you're winning. Like a football it's easy to do your fancy tricks when you're two, three and a lot. It's when the going gets tough both fans and players need to stand up and show what it means to be involved with this football club. I can't be in any negative way about it because in the last couple of seasons when I've been back in the atmosphere, the game at Redding was incredible in the quarterfinal I had goosebumps all over me my head back at Nick was standing up I've never experienced that in that atmosphere but then I only go back a month ago to Sheffield United game I was so proud to be involved in that game from a Bradford City perspective and people in Scotland were like we saw clips of the game, we saw the crowd we saw the goals they're both championship clubs for me and to recreate that atmosphere we'll have hopefully other big nights and big days between now and the season and that's what we're striving to do. 2016 is coming to an end and we'll finish this interview shortly 2017 is round the corner endless possibilities January of course is coming whether we want to change the team whether we want to mix it up etc everyone presumes there's this 20 goal of season and of course but you look at history lots of good teams and we've had them, you've been part of them often have a spread of goals don't they so what would the aim for 2017 be with Bradford City for you Stuart? I think that is the aim and again we've discussed it with the players recently it's just because you've got a number 9 on your back or you're a striker that isn't the only input of goals we need from them Night Percival being that who's been outstanding for this season you know we look back at the swinding game and yeah no should do better with a chance and maybe Hans should do better with a couple but big that has a free heading in the last minute from a cross and it hits him on his shoulder and it just loops wide that should be in so I think everyone you know we've seen Meredith get forward and get a goal but everyone should be contributing because we ask our put we ask those wide men to get deliveries in the box we ask those midfield men to get in the box again we looked at swinding we had Cullen Law and Dieng in the box at the same time for the last 20 minutes five or six occasions we ask those full backs to get forward so everyone's got a chip in and play the part and it takes a pressure off a little bit of wanting these 20 goals a season man because sometimes you'll get a 20 goal a season man which is fantastic but it might not have any other input into you in your game and it might not be the right person you want in your side great obviously it sounds daff saying all he does is score goals and we used to say that by Alan McCoy so all he did was score goals well he got 350 so he didn't do too bad but you do have other people like who are the best player, Baisley or Llinnaker now Llinnaker scored fantastic amount of goals but they all come through Baisley Baisley was outstanding so you need a mix and that's what we're striving for just to try to improve we're so pleased that we're creating lots of chances if we weren't that's when we'll be struggling but we do know and we do realise and we all realise we need to start taking more of the opportunities that we're creating welcome back Stuart, six months gone ace of the next six months and six years thanks