 Felly, Yn yr hyn, yn eich trwyddo sy'n croes, fynd i'r rhanau'r gwybodaeth ymweld a'u rhoi dyn nhw ymddangos wedi'i gyd yn Brathwrdd? Yn ym Mhelyn i'r argyfo, i ddechrau am y cyfrewd ar gyfer gweithio. Kind yw'r hyn, mae rai'n amgen i ddweud ei gwirio ffyrdd. Fy gweithio'r ymddangos gan yw'r yn cael ei wneud, mae'n ei ganddo nesaf, yna'n hynna ymweith yw'r mhelyn. Mae gynhyrch yn ei gyfrifoedd o flynyddiad. you imagine very high and very low Yea that's the thing isn't it with this in the football league your playing Saturday Tuesday the games come come thick and fast and that is literally how it is you got that high of a wind and you enjoy it for a couple of days and obviously it was a sort of ... a reality check i guess for us with the defeat on Tuesday Just talk to us through take us back a little bit as to how you've ended up here then and how the whole process works from your perspective I finished at Bolton last year, I was there for the season and my contract ended there in the end of June and I've been out of contract since. So I've spoken to various clubs and had certain opportunities and the manager got in touch with me here and said look the situation we're in, we need bodies in. I know what you're about, we need leaders, do you want to come up and play? I also spoke to Phil Parkinson who obviously I had at Bolton and he told me a bit about the club and what a good place it is, what a big club it is and it would obviously for me it's a great place to come and play and try and help get the club out of the situation that they're in. Do you have any hesitations with the situation that the club finds itself in? I don't know whether it's for some reason I've been in relegation battle after relegation battle during my career so it's something I'm probably synonymous with now. The situation is the clubs at the bottom and we need to get out of the mess and I had no hesitation with that. I joined Bolton last year, there were nine games in on two points and struggling and I was happy to go in there and do my bit and help them in the end. It was a successful campaign and we stayed up so I've signed a two month contract. I'm hoping I can come here and certainly bring my experience and as I say do as well as I can to get as many results for the club. How difficult is that as an individual knowing you're on a two month contract, knowing that you've got to perform day in, day out, game in, game out if you want to extend that here at the club? It's a weird one. I've not been in this situation before. I've never signed a two month contract but I think it suits us all the manager and everybody gets a chance to look at me and see what I can bring. Obviously it gets the club to January as well where they can obviously bring in more players and for me I want to play. I was 36 on Monday. I feel I've still got plenty left in me and I'm keen to play. The time I've been out since the end of last season I've been desperate to get back out and play football and you've been doing it so long. I've been in club football since I was 11 years old so that's 25 years of being in this industry and training full time. When you're not doing that you certainly miss it and I'm very competitive so I've been playing on Tuesday nights with a load of dads from my son's school and whipping them into shape, getting them organised and I think they're glad to see the back of me to be honest. Hopefully I can help out here and put in some performances and it's been tough. The first few games have been tough physically. No matter what you do yourself to try and keep fit you can't replicate games and replicate training with 20 other lads. It's been tough not being in this environment and going straight into it but hopefully over the next few weeks I'll hit my stride physically and be where I want to be. Sounds like you didn't have any plans at all of hanging up the boots? No, that was never an option. Obviously you get to this age, you've got children, kids in school and things, priorities start to change a little bit but certainly retiring was never something that was on my radar and I've certainly not come out of retirement to come here. I had other options, there were a few other things on the table and I'm delighted to be here. So why would Bradford Sissy have the right decision then if you had other options? What was it that Phil Parkinson said to you and what was it that David Hopkins saw too I suppose to get you in the building? David Hopkins spoke to me and I don't know, you get a good feeling I spoke to other managers and I just felt he sounded like a good guy, basically speaking to Phil helped and I spoke to Julian also. But David just really sold it to me, it is what it is, we're in the situation we're in and I think him knowing what I did last year sort of proved to him that I'm not worried about coming into this kind of situation and I'm certainly not here, two months is not long enough for me to come and put my feet up. So I'm a battler, I'm battle-hardened and for me it's another situation and an opportunity for me, I see it as an opportunity to come here and help Bradford get out of the relegation zone and it looks great for me. I don't know what my future holds whether I want to go into coaching or management but I certainly think whatever it holds if I can be a success wherever I am then it's going to put me in good stead. And what about the group you've come into then because a couple of other senior members were brought in, Jim O'Brien, Paul Caddys and then yourself, quite a young group, what have you made to the standard and what do you make to the chances of getting out of the position you find yourselves in right now? I'm really surprised actually, obviously you see a team at the bottom and you expect a change of room that's maybe a little bit down and out and the team spirit maybe not quite being there but when I spoke to the manager over the phone he'd said already how they'd turned the corner so I'd seen the results as well and coming in and speaking to the boys it was as though that a corner seems already to have been turned and I'm hopefully here to just continue that but there are a good set of players seeing them in training and in the game, the first game I played at home to Oxford. I thought once we got to grips with Oxford maybe we were guilty of taking a bit too long to get to grips with them tactically I thought but once we did I thought we were really good at that first half and we obviously scored to had a couple disallowed and I felt that from that point I was really keen to get hold of the lads alongside me and make sure we were solid and we didn't need to win that game for either 6-0 or 2-0 would do just fine but I felt we could have kicked on again if we needed to so that was impressive. There's a really good group of players and a really eager group of players as well who are keen, more than keen who are desperate to get out of the situation. And finally what does it mean to you then to be playing the FA Cup this weekend because you may have thought that you might have played in it for the last time possibly depending on where you ended up and at what point you got a club this season so what does it mean to you to be involved again? I mean they're your words not mine I didn't I didn't think it was the last time I was playing in the FA Cup but yeah FA Cup's a huge competition well known throughout the world and it's a great opportunity for us as players I mean as players you want to win games and when you are off the back of a defeat as well a heavy defeat we want to put that right and get a chance to get back to winning ways and that's what this opportunity brings obviously for the club they're huge rewards financially. If we can get through to the next round I know the lads did really well against Peterborough a couple of weeks ago so we'll be hoping for more of the same. You said it was difficult coming in and playing again having not played for quite a while how difficult was it slotting in straight away having not really met the players or had a training session with them? I mean I just had the one training session so it was yeah it's difficult it's not easy in terms of the group and fitting into this group that was easy that was not a problem they're a really good group and I've been in a number of different changing rooms and by and large it's probably like any workplace you sort of 80% great lads 10% weirdos and 10% can I say 10% not so great guys I'm not sure I've not found those 10% yet but I'm sure it's the same as most they're a really good bunch and they've welcomed me without any problems at all they've been really welcoming. Has it certainly seemed to slot straight in very vocal and marshalling players around you quite readily? Yeah that's something that I've always been in my game I feel that I'm opinionated I've got I'm vocal and I guess I feel like I know what needs to be done I've played a lot of games in the football league and I think it's important to be organised. I think it's difficult not every dressing room is the same and not every player is the same and I think it already seeing this group we've got a lot of vocal players actually. It was a big miss not having the two centre halves there on Tuesday night because I thought they were brilliant on Saturday and they were very vocal as well but I think that organisation it's a prerequisite you've got to be organised as a team. It can give you the edge over those who aren't and it's certainly that side of things. There's no effing and blinding and everything is all said respectfully but I think it's certainly important to be talking and helping each other out. Did you know anything to the players before you came here? No no I didn't I played against a couple but now I didn't I didn't know any of them but as I said they're all really as long as things are said in the right way there are usually no issues sometimes players don't like being shouted at and we're all different on we will handle maybe criticism differently and I'm not one who will criticise players for giving a ball away or it's my probably strengths lying when we don't have the ball and organising us. It was not so great on Tuesday night that's hopefully something I can add.