 Nearly on time, not quite, not quite, I shouldn't be late, or unfashionably late as the case may be. Welcome to our pretty much press conference to preview our fixture against Walson. We'll start off with Fiddy from Sky. Sean, just to start with team news, for telling Michael Ancoe, is he fit? Will he be available? I doubt he'll be right for this one, he's got a chance for the next one, it's risk and wards in our own, he hasn't trained so therefore I doubt he'll make this one. What thoughts then do you have this week on how to cope without him? Could Dwight McNeill fill in the left back? Yeah, we look at changes of shape as well as the challenge of personnel and find the best way possible, obviously we've lost our full backs unfortunately. But like I said, me and Coe are close, but it's just whether we take a gamble on that with only one to go of course. And did Dominic Cavalluan avoid any damage to his groin last weekend? Hopefully he's had a few down days and he's looking more promising so yeah, he'll be with us again tomorrow. You will be in the squad? Yeah, well he'll be with us training tomorrow obviously, we're two days previous. But he's come through the last couple of days as well. Obviously, when you look back at the city games, do you take that in isolation and reflect on the positives that there were particularly in the first half hour against him, but also as well looking back at the games and the performances against Leicester and against Breit? Yeah, I think the continuation of the performance level, I mean it was one of them strange games, although don't get me wrong, the city have just shown again last night up there, their Pro-S. I think it was one of them strange, you know, even people talk about the XG of games and all that, I think we were way in advance of theirs, which suggests we at least had a threat. Now on the day they're too strong, they're too bad, they find key moments because they were top, top side. And I said that afterwards. But I don't think it reflected on the feel of the form of us, you know, I think Leicester was a good performance, Brighton was obviously a very good performance, but I thought there was a performance there against the top side in Man City. They're so effective, they find ways of scoring, which they did, but a lot of that was good even when we changed the shape. So there was a lot of good energy, there was a lot of good belief in trying to get back in the game, but the city were too strong on the day. So, you know, taking the score on the way, which of course is kind of a weird thing to do, but the performance level, the basics were there. You know, the glue that holds the team together, the will and the demand to keep going, to keep pushing to score goals and keep being affected. I was pleased with that against, as I said, an absolutely top side. I think they're proving that again. So you sense that that city game hasn't taken too much? No, I don't think so. I mean, you know, we spoke afterwards and the main thing for me was the belief in the group and how they continued to play and how they continued to go after the game. You know, that resilience, if you like, within a performance. And that's important over the next two games, that's for sure. Does it make much difference that you play before Forrest, before Leeds, before Leicester this weekend? The win ensures that the very least destiny remains in your own hands. At the same time, it puts pressure on others to match you. You could be safe Monday. Yeah, well, it's the way the fixtures are thrown about, you know, by the Premier League. That's the way it goes in the sky, the TV, you know. It's fair to say, I think there's a balanced view. Everyone in the Premier League wants the money that comes in from the TV. It's more therefore, if they change the schedule, that's the way it goes. You just have to go with it. That's it. At the same time as well, there's also that pressure that, if you don't get the win, it gives others another major incentive to be able to go above you. Well, like I say, you can look at it either way. You know, you can dress it up because I've been on either side of it. Last club, this club, you know, when you feel the result, sorry, the game is the right day, the wrong day. That's just the way it goes. At the end of the day, the schedule is what it is. You have to deal with it. So how dangerous is an opponent like Wolves, particularly as they've obviously secured safety now and don't have that much to play for, but at the same time, they can play a relaxed kind of brand. They don't have that pressure on them. Yeah, I mean, look, you never know. Of course, the complexities are the beginning and the end of the season. If you notice, there's often odd results and strange results where one end of the season, the beginning end, people are finding their way back into it after a break and then the other end is, like you said, there's some anomalies about the mentality. You know, the same rule applies. You know, we can't overthink them. They've got their own reasons for doing whatever they do, whatever they choose to do, whether they're relaxed, whether they're not relaxed and all that kind of business, but we can't guarantee that. All we can do is remind the players they're a good side. They've done well under a change of manager overall over the season. You know, they have conceded goals. They've scored some goals, you know, and they've found their way to get to the points they're on. So we always make the players aware of the opposition. They should know a lot about these oppositions now anyway in the Premier League, but we always make them well aware. And yet again, we've got to continue the way that we're going about it because it's been, as I said, I think the form and the feel of the group has been good in the last three games. I think that's important going into the next two, but the next one being the most important, which is Walsh, of course. And just aside from the football, Sean, I appreciate obviously the focus is staying in the Premier League, but also there's further reports about investment in the club and a possible takeover as well. I just wonder how you're being kept up-to-date and how much you're being kept up-to-date with what's going on behind the scenes and how it's impacting on forward planning as well. Yeah, I don't need to be kept up-to-date with anything at this stage. Mr Mishiri went out a while ago and said he was looking for further investment. That's the way it is. I don't need to know anything until I need to know it. And at the moment, I don't need to. Thanks for the call-goal to Fraser. Just in terms of after that city game, do you have to do anything in terms of talking to the players to give them any sort of a mental reset at all? No, because I think, like I say, I mean, with no disrespect to Arsenal, we're a fine sight and they've proven it this season, but I think deep down we know the power of city and what they do, so you can't always reflect on that one performance. You obviously go into it to win the game, but it was more about keeping our performance level as high as we could. And I thought over the 90-odd minutes, I thought we did. Against the top, top side, they find moments, they find big moments. That's what they do, City, and they've done it again last night. We all saw that, the way they can control games in different ways, the way they can play in different ways. They're a top, top outfit, similar to that. And not only the 11 they put out, you look round at the bench. It never gets any weaker, it's always a strong outfit and they're proving that once again this season. So I think it's a different measure against them sides and not in a negative way remotely, it's just to say, look, these apply all the relevant habits, not just being good players, all the habits and we've come some way about doing that and now it's about our habits and taking on the next two games against different opposition, still tricky opposition. All Premier League games are, but it's different. They're not Man City the next two games. The Man City have shown this season how powerful they are. Any terms of you that the play still had the right mentality during that game, how do you as a manager go about maintaining that and just forgetting about that results but reminding that they are capable of great performances? I talk about it a lot in the sense that it's not parking results with, for no reason, we make sense of it, we speak to the players about it, we show them some clips, speak to them individually and collectively when needed. But I think, you know, at this stage of the season, the idea is you make sense, push it to the side because now it needs the next one's the most important one and I think we've done well with the group on that and we've got to do it well again because the next one is the most important one so that's the focus on Wolves now and taking that game on. Hey Sean, after the City game, the reaction of the home crowd to sing and clap off the players. They showed they were fully behind them and I just thought the reaction at Goodison from the home crowd was fantastic and maybe quite an unusual situation to see that. What does that mean to the players this week? What did it mean to them when they came off the pitch? Well, I think there's a sort of core respect about the fans here of a team that are giving everything to win a game or when they don't they let them know, which is fair enough. But the fans have been terrific ever since I got here. I can only speak from my time here. They've backed everything we're attempting to do. They continue to do so and when they see a team giving everything and I think they saw a top-class side in Man City doing what they do but they saw a team giving everything to take that game on to try and get something from the game to keep right away to the final whistle, the energy, the commitment to the course I thought was really obvious and really apparent. You don't get a win but the performance is there for the fans to grip hold off and I think we want to give them that. We want to give them that. We want to give them wins of course. We want to give them a team that can give everything. I thought that was on show. Just against the top-class opposition who have proved that all season, a tough ask but the mentality was firm and the mentality of the fans was firm and we need that over the next two games as well. Since I've been here they've been there every week for us good, bad and different home in a way. We've got to continue that connection because it's important to us. At this point in the season there's still a lot to play for yourself but you're obviously patching players up. You're still checking on the fitness of some. How does that make it more difficult for you and your coaching team to plan for a game? Yeah, of course. The squad's an imbalanced squad. We knew that when we got here. There's skinny in places, there's a risk and reward of that. That's the way it goes. There's never any crying in our excuses from me. I think we've still got a strong group of players here whoever plays. The mentality has got to be firm and I think there's a respect within the group whoever plays to take on the challenge right in front of us. We try and reaffirm to the players about that. We have done through the challenges that have been here with injury, with suspension. It's a squad mentality and that's what we've been searching for and we'll continue to search for that until we get out of the line. Can you just check on Tom Davis? I don't know if you mentioned that before. Yeah, he's had an injury as well so we're missing him and likely I think to figure this weekend so we'll wait and see on that but there's a hamstring sort of tendon injury so he's highly unlikely to feature this weekend. And finally, obviously, Seamus can't play in the final two games but is his role as a captain still there in the changing room in training around Fidge Farm? Yeah, I think the way that he is around the group, the way that he is around the professional side of what he does I think just rubs off another's. I think part of what he was already talking about the way he's been speaking with him and his further development as a player he's a fantastic pro. It's as simple as that. You can dress it up, dress it down but the way he conducts himself is immaculately. We'll go to Carl at the press. Hi Sean. I know you sort of dismissed the idea of putting pressure on clubs by playing first as a featureless quirk but is there any what is the psychological advantage if there is any of being out of the bottom three even though you lost last weekend you stayed out of the bottom three? Yeah, I didn't dismiss it, I was just suggesting that the format is what it is. You have to play regardless of what the challenge is. So I've always looked to that way from my point of view, so I can't change the goalpost from someone else's point of view but from my point of view, whenever the game is about taking it on and I think we've just stayed very clear-minded trying to take away the layers of noise around our group to make sure we're focused on the game. That's all we look to do. Others can do however they wish. So being above that line for longer you're saying that doesn't really come into... and is that I don't stare at the league I stare at the performances, I stare at the group I stare at the prep, I stare at the strategy I stare at all these things, the tactics that's the things I'm obsessing with it's not about the league table at this stage I've said it for weeks, you know the one at the end of the season is the most important of course we all debate and we all look at it during the season of course we do, but the one at the end of the season that's the most important that's the one we're looking to be above the line on.