 Gwyddo di'n cydw i'n gweithio'r gwaith. Rwy'n gwaith ymlaen gyda'r ffordd o'r sefyllfa'n mynd i ddyn nhw, mae Harry Lewis yn ei wneud yn cael eu charl iaith ymlaen, Saad Walker yn y ddweud. Yn ymlaen, mae Harry ymlaen i'r ddod yn fan hyn yn ffordd. Yn y ffordd yn ddod, mae'r ddyn nhw'n ddod yn gweld o'r enw, a'r ddod yn y gweith. Dwi'n ddod, yn sicr yn ffordd, mae'n gweithio'r ddod, felwn geisio'nSP a ph anghoru ychydig yn cael ei gweld yn ystod yn eu gwaith. The player o'r agent yn gallu wedi gweld a wedi gweld ddweud. Rwy'n meddwl gan y blaen, yn ymdangos yn gwneud o aelodd, sy'n gweld i wneud, ond fel y clwb a phosib, Mae'n bwysig i gael i'r club. Harry yn ffawr a fawr i'r ddweud o ddweudio'r gwaith. Mae'n bwysig i'r Llyfrgell i'r llunog, ond mae'n gwych i'r rhaglion oherwydd. Rwy'n ei ddweud i gwneud. Rwy'n gwych i'r pwylltio, mae'n ddweud i'r ddweud o'r ddweud o rhaid i'r llunog. Mae'n rhaid i'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud. ond we had to make sure obviously that we had our plan in place to obviously replace a good player with another good player because as I said our ambition in the chance of windows to come out of it and strongly went into it so we had you know we have plans in place for every position you know because we've got to be ready and we were delighted to be able to bring Sam Walker you know there's a history with Sam Walker and Colin Doyle and and so it was as soon as we knew we could do that and we sort of pushed the the green button on on harry we know of harry's qualities we've seen that over the 18 months they've been with the football club as manager did you have any reservations about him leaving um well it's it's hard for me because i've only been here two months um so you know you and to be fair harry's played every game so you know he's had more exposure for for me than than most um and um i wouldn't say he's been overworked in the in the games to be fair but he's not not let's down either um but um so it's all about um having viable options if you do lose a player so every every player i mean every player we look at and go okay what if what if and then who do we have if we can get them this out you know and that was a scenario so if we hadn't had somebody who we were comfortable bringing into to play as well or if even better than um harry then we we potentially wouldn't have done it um or we wouldn't have done it you know because ultimately we have to do what's right for brafford city but there is a part of us that we have to um understand the player's desires as well and you know harry you know i only spoke to harry just as we were getting off the bus after the game on tuesday night because it wouldn't confirm to me until just before to be fair um the the end of the bus journey so i had a chat with him and he was he was happy to to go and but he was also delighted or sorry and grateful for the time at bradford he had had a fantastic season last season um he'd enjoyed it this season he enjoyed the time with myself and chris and obviously do it um you know these things happen in football then people move on an acceptable bit accepted then does that money become available to you graham this january window to reinvest? there's money available i don't know how much the fee was because it's not it's not my i'm not that you know i don't want to get into all the knots and crannies of the football club i'm not the financial sort of um guardian so um but the the the owner the CEO ryan we all have the same ambitions to to make bradford a successful football team so if there's something we can do then there's a limited amount of funds there but i don't know what that figure is um i'll just trust the guys that do know that they'll tell me whether it's we can do something or not that's it um it's um you know as a manager in mon game you have limited control over all those sort of things so i'd try to um you know work with the people that they have to control as a manager an experienced manager as well do you always have to be ready for situations like this yeah yeah like like i said to you when you know when um just before pre-january when it was um you know what's yeah do you have a plan the preparation and that's what you sort of yeah i mean but being ready to adapt to whatever comes your way because you don't know who might cover any of your players there might be more i don't know in fact there will be without a shadow of doubt so um you always have to be ready for it but ultimately we have to have what's in the best interest of bradford city first and foremost and that is the main driver in it um and then comes in the potential and then the player and then the potential to bring in another player all those things come into the fact into the fact of that um at the end of the day in the air fell on i mean all the way through everyone's for sake aren't they really in reality everyone's got a price it it happens every year um but we're trying to keep our best players the ones that we feel can help us go forward and but sometimes along the way you're gonna have to change the persona you say there will be more does that mean that jade you will be a part of those more that leave the public's window i honestly you could throw every name here and i don't know like i say everyone has a price tag in in the air fell but we've um we've had um a bit for jade as a confirming name we turned it down it's not acceptable to us um and that's as far as i know and that was from what Tuesday night so nothing's changed from that perspective with Jake um so everything's the same as it was before it's um but another bit could come in for any other player in the next week or so we have to just be ready to to um work with it and um build the best for for the team with his injury situation then with his injury situation then Graham what is the situation in regards to his availability right now for you yeah he's getting re-upped in treatment with physios he's stepped forward a day uh today sorry on um the treadmill i think so he's he's progressed his his rehabilitation and as soon as he declares himself fit then he'll be available for selection that's that it's just like any other player with a niggle with an injury which we've got three or four um now they're rehab progresses each day hopefully that's the the truth actually he wants it to go on um he's one of those guys and um and as soon as he becomes fit enough to be able to to train because you have to train first i'm not going to throw him in at the event but as soon as you're available to train then he comes in our thoughts to select you obviously look after the football side of things at this football club and as you've discussed you leave the financial side of things to those who look after that responsibility as we've already discussed given the fact that he's been out and loading swindon this season and that he can only play for two clubs in a campaign yeah if he was fit right now yeah would you play it if he was good enough to get in our team at that size moment you know there's no guarantees for any player to get in our team would he be available for selection 100 would he be in the thoughts 100 and if i felt he could help us win then he would be in team i asked that just from a business sense that if he was available but here of course an asset as well is your sole focus to use him as a footballer if he's available and to not think about the possibility that if you did play him that would rule him out of a potential move away from the club yeah would he come in yeah 100% know that my my focus listen i understand i don't just because i have a responsibility to the club as well and um and i work for people i am i'm not the boss of bradfordsy i'm the football manager so i tried to keep my my focus my influence on the things that i'm supposed to and that's the football side of it and pick the best team to win as many games as possible no one has told me and sat me down and they say you cannot pitch at your not once not once so if he becomes available he's available to be picked but i can't guarantee one player in that squad that they're guaranteed to be picked nobody sam walker yes what does he bring to the football club good goalkeeper i think i know of his time in scotland i spoke to a couple of people in in scotland about him and from his period there obviously had a um relationship with condor up there as well and um they did have discussions with him in the summer bradford because there was obviously a lot of speculation around harry at the time obviously prior to me being here and um so there's a missed opportunity potentially in the summer with that and with obviously harry staying here and then um when this the harry loose situation sort of progressed um we made contact with with sam he's he's agent again he's contracted charles come to a to an end and it was the almost like the perfect timing so i've leaned on doiler a lot on the technical side of it because look i'm obviously i'm a football coach and i'm manager but i do tend to lean a lot on my goalkeeper coaches to give me a sort of the finer detail of goalkeeping and um he assures me that that sam is an excellent goalkeeper and will certainly help us win games and he's trained today he was super having trained today so it was great i spoke to him last night on the phone he's a very confident guy um and he's straight into it you know straight into the speed to the channel lads and um into training so um he's probably frustrated not playing as much as he had liked in the in the last year or so certainly in this this season so far um i think he'd had the bit between his teeth that certainly killed my look when he was playing regular and came down south for for personal reasons and then he's not played much but uh he's jumping a bit to play games and uh you know he's available for section you know because you know they've got a decision there to make because doiler was so a good deal tonight yeah exactly um we've met him only an hour ago he's a tall chap um is that how you like your goalkeepers uh no i'll look at their attributes if if i if i went back on the goalkeepers that played for me you know previously he's toyed by far um you know about uh goalkeepers six foot six one um i'll just go for their their ability their their temperament is a big one for me you know the they they give an assurance to the team you know that that's a big big factor when i when i want to sign a goalkeeper or inherit a goalkeeper i want to see their character you i'm not one for it getting these crazy guys behind you you don't know whether they're coming or going and and all this like i like to have a a a cool temperament and uh and uh burn all round goalkeepers so they're this and that they obviously certainly in league two you're going to come up in in physical battles but you know that never underpinned harry who wasn't as big as uh some so um no it'll be fine team news wise going into saturday how are you shaping up um pretty good you know we obviously uh um the game new at night we made seven changes all those players came through that unscave you know and obviously didn't get through the whole now and minutes but they they certainly played more than we expected them to to be fair and um you know we just checked them over this morning they seemed in good spirits which i expected but their their bodies are a little bit battling bruised as you'd expect for the first game for a long time for a few of the boys um but the way we train the way they train they'll be ready to go on going on saturday so there's no one missing that was available on tuesday but obviously we bring uh kiran and uh and brad back into the squad because um obviously they were suspended the other night we spoke on tuesday after the game about those that did come in to the game and we had an opportunity taking that chance how competitive is it now for you going into saturday with selection choices yeah i think it's really really invigorated the group i think it um the team that had been playing week in week out it didn't ever sound well um but just just sort of started to tear off in the in the last couple of games and i don't think it had that much of correct on the result because i still think our performances wanted more um but you know for us to play how we want to play you know aggressive fashion you know how are you energetic fashion you know we need to be in really good shape but we also need to be able to change the team at times and and that was if i'd have been here longer maybe five six months i maybe would have changed the team over the christmas period because i'd have known what i had in the in the building um but unfortunately we haven't been able to get any bounce games or reserve games and there's some less hand played so i couldn't just put my hand on the heart and change the team on a hope i needed to see and um but what i did see it either i saw that we had really good players that were pushing to to be in the start on 11 and i feel that has added a sort of an extra spark to the to the to the squad i felt that on monday when we named team at lunch um obviously we got that in the performance and um and boys are in good spirits today so um yeah a few decisions to make but that's what i wanted you know honestly if i'd have been sat here thinking well it would just be the same team you know i mean i'd have been disappointed because that means tuesday wouldn't have been good enough uh but tuesday certainly was but there's also players that didn't play on tuesday that got credit in the bank because of how they've played before so yeah it's um decision time definitely not headaches no definitely not headaches no honestly honestly um i'll be giving other people headaches probably but uh no it's honestly is it the manager wants to create a winning team and winning squad and culture you need competition it underpins everything you've got and um if you don't have that or create it then you you know eventually you're going to run out of options and we don't want to do that so um yeah i'm going to have to disappoint some good players who have been playing well um either on tuesday or previous um but you know they'll they'll be ready to be picked and and contribute to the team's performance whenever they are on the pitch just in terms of your longer term absentee he's jabby walker elix paterson yeah do you have any definite timescales and other those two go uh no um pato had a an operation on tuesday um so it went well went really well so he's got a time frame uh i think he's 10 to 12 weeks of return so um so that obviously will them out for for a little while uh spoke to jamie and myself this morning and uh he's improved again hopefully he's going to be out on the grass not with us but with the medical guys next week um so it's about him just progressing as quickly as possible but in the best best way so uh he'll obviously be back a lot sooner than pato which is a shame but um yeah it'd be good to get jamie back into the group given alex has now timescale for a return you've obviously got a lot of numbers in that area anyway but is that area still that you see needs to be strengthened this window or do you feel you have enough um no at the moment i feel we have enough uh you know we we need still need to see the next couple of performances and people following up on those performances but um we've still got um good players in there i think obviously we've been playing with three central midfield players on tuesday we played with two so we can adapt um to to what we have available and what we can use um you know we've always tried to have that sort of adaptability around our squads that where you know we we're not a slave to a certain system because of you know if players do miss out through suspension injury and then you you know it's a difficult situation we always try to be adaptable to who's available so at the moment we we have the the um the personnel to to pick the teams we want and to win games but um let's see how the next two or three weeks go you know before we um so you know confront that situation if there is one call chest the next for you obviously have a new manager now in the dugout Danny Cowley is he someone that you've come across before yeah no i don't i don't think our teams have played against each other to be fair i've met him once and twice when i was at scum thought and he was at Lincoln but um we uh you know we never i don't think we've ever played against each other so you know be a new one for both of us yeah i know you've always been about you and what you do on game day but in terms of your analysis how are you preparing for call trust and what they've got yeah look it's um he's had one game so we we've analysed that um you know we we always go back if there is a new manager and what he did previous to other games and get as as much as we can but we we dilute right down for what we give to the players because they only have to focus on certain things um but it is about you know we we didn't know what Derby's team was going to be the night you know if they'd make any changes or or none or or five didn't know what shape they'd play because they'd played three or four in a different in different games before that so we prepared our team in in the best way possible to get the best out of us you know rather than what the opposition we're going to bring what how would we play our best game and um and i think our team played really well so um that's how we go about things you know because we have to you know because games can change like 20 minutes in someone gets in they change their shape halftime they change shape bring something on so to be so focused on one certain aspect of i think um it's going to change so you have to be ready to adapt but first and foremost i was focused on on my own boys and make sure we we're ready to play thanks great okay window as we get further into it two and a bit weeks left that planning that you mentioned becomes more important because you don't want to lose the player and then they're godly if you haven't got the time to yeah yeah i'd agree with that i think um you know the the time frame you know right now there's still on a two in our three weeks to to um see if there's other options there for players that we are offering for interest in or something like that as it gets close to the end of winter and then it becomes actually then we have to look after cell and say no one's going anywhere or he isn't going particularly anywhere because we haven't got anyone to replace that player or something so but it's not right now because there's still plenty of time um but certainly as the window gets to towards its end then it becomes more apparent that we don't want to leave cell short and we're not going to um we're not going to put someone else's interest in front of references but you have said previously you'd like a slightly smaller squad is that still the case yeah as we go home yeah yeah yeah but i think um you know it's uh we have to be prepared for potential injuries or suspensions and carry enough players to be able to overcome that but um not too many you know i think we can adapt you know even if we had 15 players and you miss a couple you can adapt your team to get the best out of whatever you got and you can only play 11 any any single week so um but i i just think it becomes counterproductive when you have too many players i think um there's disenchantment with some lack of hope that's not a good environment or feeling to have around a squad that wants to win um and always you know i'll do look at these players when they're so far away from selection and i actually have empathy from because they they work out they want to they want to achieve their dreams of playing football and then they'll not get an opportunity so i don't i don't i don't like to see it and if we can help them find that option elsewhere then we try to do that so but we have to make sure that we look after ourselves so is uh and that's what we've been trying to do over the last damn you know a couple of months is assess the actual fitness levels and durability and robustness of the players we have and because you know if we're picking up a lot of injuries all the time then we'd have to probably keep bigger numbers but if we train a certain way and look after players in a certain way where we can get get them out in the pitch more often then it allows us to have a smaller squad which obviously you can put your budget more into quality instead of quantity um which makes a better team and obviously some players are coming to walk into their contracts does that come into your thinking at all that maybe body can be made from selling a player rather than waiting to their contract ones out i think it i think it comes into the equation yeah but i think you know in lead two are you going to sell someone with six months on his contract for a lot of money probably not you know they're probably going to wait that period out you know i mean so then you have to balance your financial what it's going to mean is it is it worthy that the sort of hassle of not having that player it's probably not you know i think uh that's probably most levels to be fair you're never going to get a big fee for a player with six months left on his contract so um it's that that's more probably from the player side and player led when you know certainly if they've got six months left they haven't been in the team they're not playing and they need to go out and play to protect their career that's something that you have to think about because you don't want you don't want to hold a player you know under duress or against his will when you can't actually give him the option of playing when you know his his contract running down and he's going to be lack of option so there's a side of that where you you have a sort of duty of care for your player and as long as it balances in with the best for Bradford City then no that's something you have to consider it yeah definitely thanks very much so i grab a book obviously about every player of the AFL has a price but when you're in lead two you're probably a little bit more vulnerable than the rest don't you because inevitably players are going to look upwards if any interest comes in don't you yeah of course because it's a it's a from a financial perspective everyone has a price this out there but certainly from a player's perspective or coach or manager you have ambitions you want to go you have a player manager at the highest level you can so it's difficult then to sit in front of a player if he's got the opportunity to go up a level or even two levels and convince him that it's best to stay here you know in this level you know 100% it's you know as you get lower down it becomes more difficult for that cell and but it's it's not beyond the realms of you know reality that you can convince a player that is at a certain stage of your career it's still good to to stay with us or in lead two and develop but yeah it becomes more difficult because the the figures as well through the division scope and listen that the players they do have short careers and players at this level don't make you know millions of money um contrary to what people might think um so it's uh yeah all those little things come into the equation from our side but certainly from a player's side yeah as you say mate you've got sort of options in case you know this scenario that's scenario of it is it literally you go down the team sheet and sort of say well if if he went we've got him if he went we've got him you know in terms of your potential targets have you sort of got a target almost for each position um well it's difficult to have an exact target um because if they're available and you're not doing something at the start of January if they you know if you do need them they're not they might not be there by that time so it's just it's just having a knowledge and the communication with people in the game that you know that he might be available he's not playing here so he could be you don't even know but if they're not playing there's a potential there just like there is in our squad so it's um you just have to keep your ears and eyes and ears open you know we have Steve and Jen who's in communication with a lot of people a lot of people speak to Ryan a lot of people speak with me and I speak to them and Chris and and Trewey and all that so it's um and do it obviously from the goalkeeper perspective um not just rolling me into just looking at goalkeepers but you know we all have contacts and and information and that and that's how you have to do it and and if you smell something coming in along you start going right actually that might happen so we we need to identify this so but there's not a defined list of one two three one two three it's tried that in the past it's nigh on impossible certainly at this level you know if you're at the top end in the Premier League and you've got millions spending it's like you know there's nowhere blockages but at this level it's really difficult so you just need to be too ready to react within the space of 24 hours to do something if you come see when a player goes someone like Harry Lewis has played every single game so he's been literally you know one of the name on the team sheet yeah does it in terms of changing the dynamic of the dressing room you know mid-season obviously a player who's literally been there a weekend weekend suddenly not there does that does that have an impact on the rest is that is that easy to sort of get round and sort of move on from um from my knowledge of a change of room yeah pretty quick and it does listen we once you're in the game football you see you know you see people go within an hour you know you know and you i've played long players for five six years and he you don't see him again it's like you know they go the next day and that's it it happens you know it's um you know and people stay in touch with some people some people don't you know it's it's like that a bit of football and so players um isn't they'll miss good teammates and they'll miss miss the sort of you know the friendships they have and relationships but um ultimately when they come into train next day they're thinking about getting in the team and trying to win that game football it's in front of that's that's how i'll see it so that's not to talk down about any play yeah but you know i'm sure when i left clubs after eight years at Preston North then i'm sure by following Saturday they were thinking about winning that game and that was it it's how it is so um yeah it's uh that's how the game is people become used to it and and they crack on i'm sure Harry will be thinking about winning a game for Carl Arn sadly i don't think he'll be thinking about us either so in terms of the team adaptability you know or we've got a different goalkeeper there but people just like you say yeah work around that you get used to the new keeper pretty quick and yeah i think i think that probably takes your focus doesn't it it's not the the guy who's gone it's the new one that's come in and and actually understanding what he's about you know getting those relationships going um that happening football so it's um yeah i think footballers and coaches and managers because we we move around i think you become quite adept at building relationships really quickly or find out about people really quickly but also on the other side letting people go um because that's the the sport we're in but um the players have already seen some today train um you know you showed them what what he's capable of um now train again tomorrow be on the bus going down so i think football you get that closeness um really quickly you know you're almost thrown upon each other straight away you know there's no time to to dwell or get to know people you you're pretty much in each other's face straight away so um we'll see if he sings a song tomorrow night