 Gary, good afternoon, great to see you. Thanks mate, you're good. Yeah, good thank you. Obviously, immense disappointment off the back of the West Ham result. Have you seen a positive reaction as you'd expect from the players in training? Yeah, lads have got back to work, as they always do. I think West Ham game was a huge disappointment for us. Yeah, the nature of the goals, how early the game had swung in their favour. Yeah, it was a disappointing afternoon, but we understand that in the Premier League we're going to lose some football matches, so we need to find a way to respond. What a better way than having two, three days to prepare for another big game that we need to be ready to go away from home again and show our resilience side and make sure we pick up some more points. As one of the key positives of your recent run being the way you have responded to disappointments against Arsenal, you won the next game, you lose to Villa, you win the next game, you lose to Brighton, you win the next game. Are you going to have to show those type of characteristics once again? They've been key all season, of course it doesn't always, you don't always respond as quickly as you've just said there. Some of our difficult spells have gone on longer, but the lads are always giving absolutely everything to make sure we respond. It's the nature of the Premier League, especially at the end of it that we are, the bottom end of the Premier League, there are going to be some afternoons where you don't come out on top, but that cannot change your approach and your hunger and your desire to go again in the following fixture. So lads are fine, we understand that we're getting close to the end of the season and we still need to make sure we put some more points on the board to secure what would be a big achievement for us. The relegation battle in the Premier League changes every single week with results and performances from the eight or nine teams that are in the fight. Were you watching Leeds Leicester last night? Were you aware of it? Or did you just completely switch off? I had a couple of screens going in the office. Just a couple? Yeah, we had the Leeds Leicester game on while I was still preparing some stuff for Southampton, so I had it on in the office late last night. And yeah, just watching obviously Leeds who we face on Sunday and obviously interested in the outcome and how the teams were going about it. So yeah, it was on in the office. Do you know how many points you're going to need? I did a show the other day, 33.8 is what you need based on the last five Premier League seasons. 29 kept you up one season, 36 was what you needed another season. So just under 34, you're on 33. Does it feel like one more win would be enough? Yeah, I'm not sure. I can imagine a team being relegated with 36 this season. I think it's possible. So yeah, we won't be setting. Definitely won't be setting 36 as our goal. Not that we'll set a points tally, but yeah, 36 would not be something that I was aiming for in my mind. Aiming to leave some areas on Thursday with 36, hopefully. And then we'll address the next game after that, see where we are. But yeah, that's the mentality we've taken from the start. I think obviously the closer to the end you get when there's a couple or a few games left, it becomes clear what may be needed and may not. But at this point, so many permutations still that we focus purely on trying to win the next game still. You talk about being in your study with a couple of screens on one with Leeds Leicester, one with Southampton, what's your analysis of them shown and how big a challenge will this game be? Yeah, it'll be a big challenge. They've made big improvements since the new head coach took over. So yeah, they've improved. They're not really in relegation form since he's taken a job. I think there are nine points from nine games. So a decent return, high energy, yeah, front foot, aggressive. Add some good results, fantastic performance at Arsenal and the result. So yeah, it's not like we're going to a team that are losing every week and have been rooted to the bottom of the table because they're in terrible form. They're putting in some real good performances, picking up some good results. So yeah, it'll be a real tough test if anyone is in any doubt. And yeah, I can assure them it'll be a really tough game for us on Thursday. I know Southampton fans don't see Bournemouth as a rivalry, but you certainly know their main rivalry having played for Portsmouth for a number of years. What do you remember about those encounters and those matches because they are fierce? Yeah, they were fierce. Yeah, they still are fierce, I guess. I think my first ever reserve game, because we used to have reserve teams back then, was against Southampton for Portsmouth. I haven't caught Louisville and there was about 3,000 fans in. I was only 15 playing right midfield against Francis Bernali. And as soon as I tried to run in behind him from kickoff, he smashed me in the face with a cast on his arm. And I thought, oh yeah, this is... So I've come straight from maths, just finished maths, gone to play for Portsmouth Reserves and got a cast smashed in my face by a... So I was like, this is what senior football is going to be like. And that was just a reserve game. So yeah, there were some fierce games between Portsmouth and Southampton and obviously a real memorable one where we won. I got a hat-trick at home in a real big, that was sort of a relegation battle as well then between us and Southampton, we're both involved in it, Portsmouth and Southampton. So yeah, some good fixtures. And of course, yeah, we've had some good games with them as well since we've been at Bournemouth. We've not managed to come out on top, I don't think, since I've been here yet. But yeah, we try and change that on Thursday. Obviously you refer to that game back in 2005, April, it was the end of April, a relegation match between Portsmouth and Southampton. Obviously you were at Pompey at the time. That was a 4-1 victory. Are you hoping, you can see where I'm going with this, are you hoping that you can go to St Mary's and perhaps inflict a big blow on their chances of Premier League survival whilst keeping Bournemouth in the Premier League? No, yeah, no feeling towards what it does to them at all. Just purely us and what it means to us. So yeah, I wouldn't get any more pleasure out of beating Southampton and they're all out of beating anybody else. So yeah, hopefully we can go there, put another big result on the board for ourselves, the club, the players, the fans. Yeah, and if we do that, we'll be in a really good place. And just finally for me, some team news, some injury news. I know you've got a lot of strength and depth at the moment. You've got good players that can't even get on the bench. What's the latest? Who's back? Who's a doubting? So yeah, who's back? No, we're still good. Joe Rothwell had a mild hamstring at half-time on Sunday, but he's feeling better. So we're hopeful that he'll be in the Matchday squad. Yeah, and the rest are pretty good. Junior Trey already not back yet, but hopefully won't be too much longer. Yeah, and the rest are okay. Obviously a free game week for us in, yeah, so we may have to freshen things up here and there and move a few things around. But yeah, two big games in quick succession, so the big squad will definitely be needed. Thank you. Gary and Francis Bernal, you'll probably be there at the game on Thursday. Club ambassador, are you going to have a word? I've spoken to him before. I think we did some TV stuff together, and he doesn't actually remember it, I don't think. But it definitely happened. So yeah, if I bump into him, I'll mention it again. Does that kind of guarantee you a bit of a hostile reception from their fans? Do you quite like that? Is it nice to almost take the pressure off your players? Yeah, I'd love to take, yeah, if the source of everyone's focus could be on me and let my players go and perform, then yeah, that would be a benefit, but I don't see it like that. I think the players are used to playing in, they've had two away games at Tottenham and Leicester recently. Leicester were fired up for it. Home fans knew it was a big game for them and the Lads managed to put in a performance and obviously huge crowd at Tottenham going one-nil down and the place sort of being bouncing at that point and the Lads managed to put in another real good performance. So yeah, I mean, I don't know what sort of reception I'll get and yeah, it doesn't bother me too much either way. You've said so long to know improved under Revan Sellers. You know exactly what he's going through because you're both in a relegation fight and your first managerial job in the Premier League. Yeah, I think, yeah, I can imagine. Obviously because I'm, yeah, but it doesn't mean that he's dealing with it or doing things similar to what I do. I think, yeah, all managers will be unique, but yeah, I would guess there's not too many managers that go straight into their room or head coaches that go into their first job in a Premier League relegation battle. So yeah, similarities that we're both thrown in at a high level and with big stakes. So yeah, it'll be a, I'm sure it'll be a hard fought game. No, Jack Stevens available to you for this game. How much of an impact has he had for you here? Yeah, he's had some real good performances. He's brought sort of a real good organisation to us at times. He's very vocal. He's brought calmness. Yeah, performed very, very well since he's been in. But yeah, like I say, luckily we have a, we have almost a fully fit squad that we can replace him with on Thursday. Bill Foley's here for the week. Have you been able to have some good meetings, some time together? I know obviously you've got three games in a week so it's busy for you. Yeah, I've seen Bill around the training ground and you had a couple of brief chats with him. But yeah, a lot of my time in three game weeks is, yeah, it doesn't ever feel like you have enough time. So busy working and trying to make sure the team are ready, which I'm sure Bill would prefer me to do. What's his message, his kind of belief, do you think? Or is he quite hands off? Does he not really get too involved with, you know, like you say, the day to day? I think he'll be speaking to Richard and Neil regularly. I would think obviously from my point of view, I'm just head down getting on with the work that needs to be done. So yeah, I think he wants to be involved. He wants to know what's going on. He's keen to help and improve the club. But yeah, from my point of view, it's more contact purely with Richard or the players that is my important bit at the moment, making sure that everybody's ready to go for what is going to be six real big games for the football club. So take care of my bit and I'm sure everyone else will be happy. Last couple of words, if you don't mind. You said balls in the box in counterattacks you were frustrated with against West Ham. Are you expecting a different contest, a different kind of team on Thursday night? Southampton are very different to West Ham, yeah. I was disappointed with the fact that we struggled to deal with clear and obvious West Ham strength. But yeah, Southampton will be different. They are a big counterattack threat still. But yeah, they are a very different side to the one we faced on Sunday against West Ham. When you're preparing for these latter games and there might be times in matches where you're chasing a winner, you're chasing an equaliser for what it means to survive. Have you discussed little things like whether the keeper goes up for a corner in the last minute when things are really coming to the wire? It sounds like you put every hour into the office so are you dealing with all the minutiae like that? Yeah, I don't feel up at that point of the season yet. I think of course when you get, let's say you're facing a game that you have to win to qualify for Europe and you have to win to stay up and you're drawing 1-1 and there's 20 minutes to go. Your substitutions are going to be very different to if you were drawing 1-1 in January with 20 minutes to go. So yeah, of course there will be, there's things that I have in my mind but my preference would be to take care of our business now as soon as we can get over the line. Make sure we secure Premier League status for next season and then we won't be so forced into making situations or substitutions like you mentioned.