 Sam Watkins of Bradford City, how does it feel to be here first and foremost? First it's an honour to be here, I think at a football club of this magnitude. It's a real privilege to be able to put on the shirt and I'm here to help the team and the club move back towards where the club belongs. How did the move come about? It's January, I imagine things happened quite quickly yesterday if you're medical and everything fell into place I imagine. Last few days obviously I know Colin Dall from my time at Kilmarnock, we worked together for a year up there. I really enjoyed working with him so he dropped us a line over the weekend just to see what my situation was. My deal with Charlton ran out on Monday and there was an offer from them to extend that but I was certainly obviously as a player interested in coming to a club like this. If the option was there and I think things would have been with Harry quite quickly and it came up yesterday and signed on the dotted line. How good is it having somebody like Doyle here as you go to the coach? Like you say, that relationship is already there, I've worked with him at Kilmarnock. Having players like Ash Taylor as well who you know already in the building coming in and making you settling easier I guess a little bit. Yeah it certainly helps, I think I'm at an age now where I've been a player for 13, 14, 15 years. You know people at most places in the game. I had a year with Doyle and then two years with Ash at Kilmarnock and enjoyed working with them both enormously. Looking forward to catching up with them and obviously meeting all the other guys from what I've been told it's a really good group up here so looking forward to getting going straight away. You mentioned you come with plenty of experience, relevant recent experience at Charlton as well. Have you played a couple of games for them this season but also around clubs like Colchester over 200 appearances? For them you've had quite the career so far haven't you? Yeah I think obviously the vast amount of my experiences is over league one and two. Obviously sandwich with a couple of years in Scotland which I really enjoyed. So yeah bring a lot of experience looking forward to helping the team with that experience and the way that I play. Quite a calm composed goalkeeper so try to exude that calmness into the back line and into the team and yeah like I said I'm here to help the team move up towards the player spots and hopefully beyond. Does it help coming into a club where the management team hasn't been in place for too long? It's sort of turned over a new leaf for the whole club in a sense when a new manager comes in fresh ideas and things like that. The team being on relative for good form recently. You coming in a fresh start for you, a fresh start for the club all on the same page if that makes sense. Yeah it can do and I think even in the short time I've been here you can feel there's a bit of a freshness around the place. I had a good conversation with the manager last night and yeah just can't wait to get going really. Like you said the lads have been on a good bit of form, picked up a really good result on Tuesday night in the cup as well which is always a good positive. Winning is a mentality and if you can win those sorts of games it just breeds a good positive atmosphere around the place. Yeah like I said, can't wait to get going and get out on the grass this morning. You will have played at Valley Parade before. What were your experiences when you played there and how much you are looking forward to now playing the representing brother city? Yeah I can't wait. Obviously the big factor playing for this football club is playing in front of all those Bradford City fans and I can't wait to get out there next Saturday. Obviously we've got an away game actually outcultures to this Saturday to deal with first but yeah I'm hugely excited and like I said honoured to be given the opportunity to play at Valley Parade for Bradford City, I've played there a few times against them and it's always a very tough place to play and if the city team are on top then it's usually a very difficult place to come out of with the results so yeah really looking forward to that. Having that support behind you're not just at home the average crowd is 15, 16, 17,000 plus but away you see Derby on Tuesday night as you mentioned over 730 there. That must help as well having that backing behind you when you're in the goal so close to the fans as well you feel that support from them. Yeah it's huge you quite often as a goalkeeper you're usually close to them for one of the halves and I've always loved that sort of thing and I'm very big on the fans being a big part of what teams do and I think obviously with the support that we have here harnessing that to get behind the team is only going to be a beneficial thing. So yeah I'm really looking forward to home and away meeting some of the fans as well I'm not on any of the socials I'm a bit old school like that but I'm always very happy to have a conversation in the street outside the stadium wherever it is and chat football or chat life whatever it is so yeah really looking forward to meeting the fans. You mentioned Colchester up first this weekend for you quite poignant really your former team it's going to be quite strange I guess visiting Colchester again but looking forward to going and making your debut there hopefully. Yeah very much so it's funny how football works in these little ways where things happen and they call it what you will but yeah to go back there I've not been back there since I left actually so it'll be a really exciting and special day for me and my family and family are hopefully going to come and watch the game. So yeah it'll be good to see some old faces after the game but certainly for me my full focus is on Braffa City getting three points at Colchester on Saturday. Have you got a final message for those supporters that will be looking forward to seeing you in action? Just that it's a genuine honour and a privilege to be here at a club like this and I can't wait to see you out there and looking forward to very much helping the team and getting us back to where we belong.