 Garry team news wise, how are you looking? How did everyone come through Tuesday? No, very good. No injuries to report from that. We lost Matthew Palmer with illness. So he's, we'll be touching go, we'll see how he is tomorrow. But apart from him, everybody that played and still came through fine. Clayton's had another good week and so he's going the right way. What else is there that's nothing that's about it that's coming back? Joe Riley's progressing well as he works hard every day. Tyler French has gotten a bit of a problem with his shin at the moment. Holding him back which is disappointing for him. Richard O'Donnell's going well and that's everybody I think. For Clayton being involved this week and I saw him doing some shooting practice when I was driving in. Yeah, he's getting there. I think this weekend probably be a bit too early for him. But we'll see how he recovers like you say. Today they've had the ones that haven't played and including the ones coming back from injury. We've had a tough session today so we'll see how he recovers from that. How much do you think you've missed him? Oh yeah, without a doubt you've missed him. We've missed him in the dressing room. We've missed him being around the place in the lead up to games. And then we've missed him on the training pitch. We've missed him in games as well because of what he brings to the team in terms of his oil round play and his experience. So now 100% we've missed him. How much does Tuesday night take out of a group when you get back in the very early hours? I know there'll be fans listening who got back in the very early hours and it has a knock on effect doesn't it for a few days for you? It does and I'm sure the wonderful support that we had down there when they got back at the hours that they must have got back at it as well. They appreciate and understand that today for those lads has been all about rest and recovery that play. And you know they get on with it. They're an honest bunch like I've said. So they're just doing everything they can now to make sure that they're ready to go again on Saturday night. I wanted to ask you about something you mentioned after the game in your interview with us when you were asked about the players in midfield and you were urging them forward, so then look forwards, go forwards with it. How do you get that into them and why do you think they are hesitant at that at times? I didn't think we were hesitant. Having watched the game back as well probably initially your thoughts but no I think some of it's getting used to playing with certain players again and understanding the relationships but no I thought looking back at the game and watching it again which is always a better way to then draw your conclusions after it looked, we did well. We played some nice stuff at times and you know we just, it was just a final pass, first half especially where Dylan Connolly's got in several times and then obviously the wonderful effort from Chris Taylor and then the brilliant opportunity when Harry Pritchard gives up the opportunity this year but no I think on reflection you know the performance like I said at the time it was a very good tactical game and the standard of play from both teams and how they went about it was in my opinion it was a very high level. And it's about taking that responsibility on isn't it I suppose with someone like Harry Pritchard in that situation about taking that one. I think Harry would have shot if he had been playing in the game and he was in the flow of it having just come on you know I think it was one of them where he probably didn't want to be seen to be missing but we spoke with him and I spoke with all of them and just to say you know you've got to do what Tails did and just let Rip and you know you never know where it can end up and unfortunately for Chris it hits the bar and comes out where you know another time it rattles the underside of the bar and goes in. Luke McGee, what have you made to him and his two performances so far? He's been well if I speak about him as a person he's been fantastic from the very first time that I spoke to him to coming into the building to how he's been around the place. He's been you know he's a real popular member of the group already which is a credit to him. He's not shy, he comes at you know which most goalkeepers aren't you know they've got to be vocal and he gave a very good rendition of the song that he chose to do in the hotel before the game against Colchester and the lad can sing. What song was it do you know? I knew you would ask me that but it's too young for me whatever song it was it was too young for me but he's got some lones. He can sing yeah X Factor Contender. Really? Yeah I thought so yeah X Factor Contender so you know watch this space when he retires might be the next Teddy sharing him. Maybe that's what he's been doing with all the downtime he'd had because he admitted he's struggled when he's not been necessarily playing week in week out gaming game out and it's hard for a goalkeeper because you know there's only one slot you can fit into so how much praise is he's there for the way he's jumped straight back into first team action. Definitely and you know he does he deserves an enormous amount of credit and he looks comfortable with the ball at his feet. He played out a couple of tight situations ever so well it brings a bit of calmness about that when the way he does it. You know in the game on Tuesday he wasn't really tested with shot after shot I think he may have won good save but no he's settled in ever so good and like you say the fact that he's not had that much football he's only going to get better every time he plays. Transfer window just over a week to go? Yes. You busy on the phone what's happening? The phone was mental yesterday with people ringing up and throwing players at you and what have you and it's hilarious isn't it where they go alright well it opens in January and you see deals getting done and now really gearing up for the madden rush but now there's nothing to report that's anywhere near concrete for ever an incoming or an outgoing at this moment. Any of those phone calls peak your interest though? Were there a few that were thrown your way that you thought well maybe if X, Y and Z happens? Yeah in other words there were three in particular that really caught my attention but they're a long long way off at this moment in time but obviously people are trying their arm and just throwing names out there and see who like you say has a little nibble. But you've got the scope if you need to? Well they have to be a conversation and go obviously you know you have to go with all the facts and all the facts would be you know how much it's going to cost when is it from till but you know I'm led to believe that there is a little bit of scope to do something but again it has to add up that's for sure. And what about Owen Doyle any update on his situation still expecting him to be here or have Swindham been back in touch? No, not as far as I'm aware that he's played he put in the hell of a shift the other night. He had this chance that got deflected and went wide and then he was narrowly offside and he's been narrowly offside for the last two now but I thought him and Shane McCartney way that they linked up well the other night and we want that relationship to continue. Sounds as though Jerry Yates might be going back to Rotherham as well if it hasn't already happened from Swindham so would that maybe increase the chances of them coming back for him than would you feel? I don't know. It would increase their need for a striker wouldn't it? Yes correct. Which could then possibly increase their need to come back for a striker they know all about? Yes correct possibly but I'm not Richie Wellins so I can't see that for you. Does that concern you though that it could happen late in the window or could happen deadline days or something like that? No that's what I'm saying about the window. I'm sat here now saying nothing for us, nothing not a sniff on any of us as such and the last hour of the window it could change and you could lose one and there'd be something that sometimes there's not a great deal you can do. If a decision is made above you financially it's correct for the club. What about the next one then? What about Mansfield? They struggle at home don't they at the moment? I watched them against Plymouth on the bus back from Colchester and they had four clear opportunities to take the lead before Plymouth scored and played well. They played a different system, they played a different style to how they played it here which I fully expected because obviously when Graham went in there at the beginning it was just at the start of that Christmas period where you wouldn't have had much time on the training pitch. They probably had a couple of sessions where you could implement how they wanted to play and like I said before we played them in December. They've got players that can hurt you and they've got a good squad and they've found themselves in a situation that probably on paper doesn't want their position with what they've got. They're a dangerous opponent, one we're aware of but we go there with one defeat in our last 11 buoyed by the performance of Tuesday night. Being solid again and difficult to break down and we've won war from our lads in the final third to push on now and take that performance and that result onto a victory. Good stuff, thank you. You mentioned Clayton, Jamie Devitt. How difficult is it trying to get their match fit at the moment? Fair play to the pair of them. Maybe we are both very good in terms of the way that they look after themselves in terms of how they've gone about the recovery and the work rate that they've done. It's game time that they need for that little bit of sharpness. We can do it all in training but it's the real stuff that they need. That's the hard bit but that's the situation we find ourselves in at this moment in time. Obviously we play Saturday and then we play Tuesday again and then the window shuts and then we play Saturday and after that it might just calm down a little bit and then we can see where we're at with all. Luke McGee was just saying to us that what he really needs is games because you can't replicate for a goalkeeper in training what it's like in a match. How long are you expecting that to take for him to be fully up to speed? It's different for every individual but we've already seen the benefit of him playing two games already and such a quick turnaround. He gets a third game this Saturday and then we'll see where we go from there because he's got the Chelten game and his level of performance has been good since he's been in. So long may be that will continue. Go back to the window again now Ian. That sort of talking about swimming all the time. Obviously they're in a position where they've just lost two quite major players. That's always the risk isn't it when you've got run players and when you're in the situation that things can happen like that? Yeah it is. It's interesting isn't it because I think Carl Isle last season were doing really well. I think it was a couple of lads, Nadasan and Sourbee there and they had the recall and then they just dropped off a little bit and just missed down. So it is difficult and when you take the loan players it's always something where especially when they do really well. So when I was at Blackpool and Sean Longstaff and he was smacking them in there and everywhere and you heard another league one club or a championship club was going to come in for him and you just sit there and wait for the release closed date or the recall date to elapse and then you can breathe a little bit and then one minute past 11 on January 31st you can actually try and get some sleep without worrying about losing anybody. But you know the rules when you go into the agreement so it's something that you have to accept and it works both ways in your favour. Because it can change the whole dynamic quite quickly can't it? Yeah definitely. And like you said I've seen the advantage of it where you bring a couple of new faces in all of a sudden just at the deaf and it just gets the group going again and it has its advantages but I wish they'd do a week rather than a month so it just doesn't make sense in my head to just drag it all out to then have that mad week and even in that mad week it goes for a mad two days. Is it not better than this situation that you feel it's more comfortable in this window than perhaps some managers might be chasing players desperately and but when you look at the squad you've got the players coming back is it a position of a use in this window and a position of relative strength? Listen if the window closed now and we had to go with what we've got with I don't have a problem with that at all and just said that to the group you know and throughout the course of the season and leading up to the window opening that's down to them you know. If they're flying and people make them available I think well he's not going to get in ahead of him then that's not a problem at all for me. The only sometimes I think you look at it and say the odd new face here and there just like to say just brightens the place up a little bit or just brings a bit of curiosity and then a bit of a different challenge for one or two which you know is sometimes really good as well. Presumably also the players themselves in terms of attitude they comfortable in the window because sometimes you've said before it can be a little bit. I think if you wanted to know more about what's happening in the window you go and speak to the players because they know everything that's happening in the window and through agents, through all the players at other clubs. Is that easy to manage when you're doing that? It's entertaining that's a short because what you would definitely hear is that you'll hear one player say all of it such and such is getting so much money at such and such and you think right well you're not getting anywhere near that so you can pipe down. But it is that's what it creates but you just then have to obviously manage it and use it to motivate them if that's their motivation, if it's financial. You've now got six loans in of course. Yes. I mean I know the situation you said you didn't want to. No. I suppose it's a necessity. It was and like I say it's something that's going to need to be managed. I didn't like the idea at all being honest through what happened last year to young power. But it is something that I'll have to manage as and when that's required. Is it because you've always sit the low players down and saying that this is going to be the scenario? Me personally that's what I will do. I will be honest with them. I don't think you can do it any other way.