 Felly, Graeme, we'll start with Tuesday. Your reflections on it a few days later, and how much of a building block that can be going into Saturday? Yes, well that's how we have to see it. I think first and foremost, you won the game of football. Which was a good feeling, always a good feeling. But then you want to take games forwards, certainly if they're positive results and improve upon them, maintain lots of good things that were involved in those games. Felly mae cael ei dda i'r gweithio cael gweithio'r fuld. Byddai gennychuffau eu ch росio. Felly mae eich cyfnod, mae gyrhau eich gweithio'n gweithio. Mae eich gweithio'n gwneud cos eich gweithio'n gwneud. speiadadau chi'n ziwethaf, mae eich ddweud o'r amser wedi gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio, mae gweithio arall y gallwn gwybod chi ymddu i'r pernod ddewyd, that hefyd wedi'i gwneud cael ei fewn. Felly wrth gyrda ni'n cwynt i'r cyfryd. Efallai o'r eir uch chi'n bwysig yn y ddechon nhw'n gweinio'r ffictures? Mae'n cael ei dfodol i'w ysgol ar gyflogadau. Felly, darwch chi'n dweud eir eich eisgrif i'w ffictures yn ei bod nhw yn cael eu syniad. Beth i ni'n gweinio'r ffordd mewn ei gweithio, rhaed i'n rhai. Ac yw'r reall y gallwn i'n gofio. Mae'n amlwg i'w cartog i'w'r sreiddiad. Prys yn dweud i chi gweithio'n gweithio, Gallwch yn gweld, yn enwed i'r gwrdd hynny y lei wedi'i gweithio i'r mwyaf a hynny'n chwrdd gynghoriwn. Rwy'n cael ei gweithio chi'n gweld. Rwy'n cael ei ddechrau'n wand attackedwgyaeth, y fod yn llyfrgeoedd, Cyfo'r gwaith a'r mwyaf o'r cyfnod o'r ddechrau creu bwrw sy'n cael ystafell, yw'n cael ei gael y llanwch i'r dylun i'r gael. a gynnyddio'r eich tynnu ar y dyfodol sydd aeth yn'r bys, ac mae'r gweithio'r ddweud ym mwyaf i'r gwael. Mae'r ddweud o amser, mae'n gwybod gweithio'n gweithio i'r ddechreu, 3, 4, 5 o'ch gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n 30 sgwm yn cyhoi'r 5 o'n 5. Mae'r gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n cyhoi'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. ond we have to do it every single game. For you it must be, you talked about that, five goals on the score sheet but just not letting up, keeping that energy, that desire, that press-up, that must be massive for you. Yes, because if you just come off it a little bit, that's a bad habit and then habits can come back and bite you in the next game or a couple of games after that. So what you want to do is produce good habits and behave the right way all the time, be consistent in your thoughts. If you want to have consistent performances, the consistency has to be started in your mind and how you think and how you approach every training session, every game. And if you're always producing the same sort of commitment, effort and focus, then you won't even have to think about that going forward, it will just happen naturally. So for me that they were good signs that we can maintain the levels of focus and concentration and quality as well because we had a lot of quality tonight. So there was obviously different players in the team and so we have to build upon that with the group that we have. One of the goal scorers on Tuesday, Lewis Richards, he's just been chatting to us. He says, since you've come in, he likes how much detail you go into. He's stepped into the side with Liam Ryadolch being out. I just wondered what has the message been to Lewis filling in for Liam? I don't overpower players or overload them with lots of stuff that I don't think is necessary. You can't call that absolutely everything in a football game because it's impossible. The players have to make 500, 600 decisions in a 90 minute period. But you try to get them in a general mindset where it's positive, where it's forward facing, front footed and use it. I try to identify the players' attributes and make sure we focus on them and ask them to produce them at the best level. For instance, Lewis is a really physical player. He's quick, he can take people on, he can defend 1v1. So I'm getting him to concentrate on those things but certainly be more positive when he gets into those attacking scenarios. That was something I challenged him at halftime about because I just felt he got levelled up with a 1v1 duel in the first half and turned it down and came backwards all the time. So just challenged him at halftime to be positive if it doesn't work, don't mind. But just be positive and be front-firded. I think he probably had that in his head when he took the shot on. There was no second thoughts, he took his touch and hit the target. So he got his reward. So for me, hopefully that will encourage him. And other players, we identify their outstanding attributes. That's all we want them to keep producing. So he's done really well in the two games, I feel. Baptism was a fire on Saturday, but I thought he covered well from it in the game, in the second half, but certainly on Tuesday. It was an all-round performance. On the opposite side of that defence, Brad Halliday's come in for a lot of plaudits. He's someone who clearly likes getting forward and having a run at the opposition's defence. Playing in that position yourself, Graham, just what have you made to Brad's performances since you've come in? It's similar vein to Lewis, really. I think we, I spoke to all the players as a group, and then as individuals or in units, as in the fullbacks and so forth. And we talk to our fullbacks and we've always produced teams that have flying fullbacks. And that's what we want to go for and want to bomb for us. But you better be fit enough to run back as well, because it's not just one way. And I think that they're all capable of doing that, but certainly Brad is... Listen, I don't want to talk about, or I can't talk really about too much about performances before, but all I've seen in the three games is a lad that's fully full of energy, fully committed in every action he does, it's never half-hired. And he works his backside off for the team, and he's got some good quality. He picks on some great positions in attacking sense that nothing to do with me, that's just off his instinct. But we like it, so we're going to let him roll with that, because I think it's a really good weapon for the team, to be honest. But they both understand if you're a defender, your defensive duties come first. But if you're just going to sit there and defend and not add anything to the attacking part of the game, then you're probably not going to be for us. So like I said, I think we're not asking Brad or Lewis to do things that are not capable of. We're just maybe letting them off the leash a little bit. Verdane Oliver came on in the second half, as we said on Tuesday, it's been a while since we've seen him in a city shirt. First, how is he after coming back on Tuesday? And too, Graham, how do you see Verdane's role in the side now he is coming back? He's a little bit stiff this morning, I asked him why, because he only did 20 minutes. So you know what I mean, I could do 20 minutes now, so it was good because we had a good long conversation a day before about maybe getting 20 minutes in the game. I promised him it'd only be 20 minutes, I wouldn't put him at risk by bringing him on after half an hour or anything like that. And you know, regardless of how the score line is, you know, we want to get you back up to speed. It was going to be a broken week training-wise, so it was a good opportunity to get him some game time. You know, speaking to him this morning, he felt the intensity in the tempo of the game was something he couldn't replicate in training. So it's probably worth a full training session just in the 20 minutes, so that was good. It gives him an idea of how much work he has to put into to get up to full speed. Look, he's an experienced striker with brilliant attributes. He's a great lad, well respected by his team-mates and everybody, and he's a proven striker at this level. So we want all our players to be available, I want to have decisions to make, I know of his qualities, and it's great to have him back out on the pitch in a kit, but we just have to assess where he is before the weekend, whether he's involved again, because like I say, it was purposely done with 20 minutes. That's all we had in for, and we wanted to see how he responded to that. But he's trained again today, which is good. It's a good sign. He's recovered in the 24 hours or so, and we'll see how he progresses. Back at Valley Parade on Saturday. Just the three league wins there so far this season. The number of conversations we've had with your predecessors, Graham, about making the home ground a fortress. I'm just interested in how you view playing at home and Valley Parade. I think it's important to win games at home because, listen, 100% of your supporters at common weekend would go at home. You only get a certain percentage away from home, but when they come, certainly numbers that we carry, then you want to reward that support with wins, and you want to build up a mental, and you want to build up a place where people fear coming. But it's important to win away as well. That's what you need to stress, that we don't prioritise home wins over away wins. I think if you want to be successful, you have to win both home and away. I wouldn't want to put too much emphasis on the home games being so much different to away games. I think you have to try and, as a footballer, I think you have to go into every game of football and take out all the outside details, home crowd and away crowd, cup game, league game. All those sort of things, league position, all those sort of things. Almost try and take the score line out of the game sometimes and actually play what's needed for that specific moment, that specific minute, two minutes, three minute block. Try and break the game down to that, and if you can break your game down to those fundamentals and focus on those, then you won't go far wrong. I think it's when you start thinking about what's outside of the pitch that you're not focused on your job, and that's what we try to do, but obviously at times like this, on Thursday and Friday, when we're talking about that game, we can talk about the outside thing, but certainly come three o'clock on a Saturday. The players need to just be concerned on what they have to do against their direct opponent and what they have to do for their team. If we can create a momentum of winning games, both home and away, then we know we're in a good spot, but we want to reward that crowd because it's a phenomenal crowd. One of the outside factors, and you've maybe answered my next question, is that the side I've already played at Clinton in the League Cup this season, beat them in the first round and got their own penalties. Does that come into it at all, Graham, or is that something we just talk about? It doesn't come into it for me. No, for me it's irrelevant because I think you might be thinking about that game if you played in it, and it might be a bad experience you add in the sick game, but there might be two players that didn't play well in that, and they think about that. So I'll just want them to start every game from scratch. Listen, there's emotions and you do carry on emotions from the previous game. Certainly if it's a win like we did the other night, you'd like to think the emotions start, but they can quickly dissipate if you don't start the game right in the first three or four minutes. So for me it gives you a feeling, but we want to get our players in an emotional state where they're balanced, and it's not like a rollercoaster. Either you're up there or you're down there because football throws all sorts of things during the season, certainly through 90 minutes. So you have to have a steady state of mind to be able to control what's going on around you, and certainly in your mind. So a game that happened, I don't even know how many months ago, was pretty relevant for me going into the game. Just lastly, some team news-wise, is there anyone you can welcome back ahead of Saturday? No, not from the last couple of games. No one's come through from the rehab group. A couple of touching training, but nowhere near enough to start a game or be involved in a squad. So we've pretty much got the similar squad to what we've had in the last two games. Any updates from Brentford on Dan Iagoki? I know you said it last week it was in their hands on the scan and all of that. Yeah, I think he's having surgery on his shoulder, so he's going to be out for a little while. So he won't be available to us. We still have to have a conversation with Brentford about his longer future sort of thing over the season. But yeah, we found out that he has to have an operation, which is frustrating for him because it spoke to him the day after, and it's what he didn't want to be the case, but unfortunately he is. And other than that, everyone who played on Tuesday at the weekend are all fine to play this weekend? Yeah, I think there's no one that came off, no one's reported anything from Tuesday, apart from the usual Bunts and Bruises, which you'd expect from a competitive game. So no, we're pretty much where we were. Great stuff, thanks for your time, best of all. Okay, thank you. Obviously people always talk about turning points in the season things. Tuesday has obviously been mentioned, but could it be also that goals have been hard to come by for this team and that scoring five like that, five different players, really can almost lift the weight and allow more freedom in the play? I think it can give players confidence that the messages we're trying to get across and taking that risk and letting the leash off. I think you need reward for that information, for that message and just to give the players confidence in what you're talking about. But almost that they've got the freedom to go and do that and attack and I think they'll enjoy playing that way. They must have all enjoyed playing in that game the other day, not just scoring the goals. There's a lot of other things you can take enjoyment from in a game of football, but I think scoring goals and winning the two at the top of the list. When you talk about turning points, I think you only see turning points further down the line when you look back when did it turn. I don't think you can say that's the turning point three days, two days after a game. I think you have to string a good amount of results to prove that's the case, but if it gives you hope then I think you should cling on to that because we all want a bit of hope. We all want a bit of positive feeling about the future can be better than what the past has been in the last few months, but I think they've shown in the last one and a half games that we can produce a competitive team and a team that can score goals and defend well. That's the formula that everyone's looking for because it ends in good results. Look, I've been working on my previous job three weeks off and I've been working on this job so I can't say I've been concentrating on any particular team apart from my own, but I think the league is a good directive to how good a team is. The league table I should say because after 17, 18 games you are where you deserve to be, so they've proved over those amount of games that they've got enough points to be better than a lot of other teams in this division. It's quite a simplistic reasoning behind that, but they are. Listen, you've got a manager who's a vastly experienced and has had success at Aki several times, so you ever play against Aki and suddenly you know you're going to have to be at your best to win a game for football, so that's where my focus is on. He's on my team producing their best. Thanks very much. Graham, Matt, John Coleman, do you sort of look at him and managers like that and been given so much time at these clubs? Is it a sort of scenario almost like a sort of dream scenario for a manager or is it just very much a sort of exception to the rule at perhaps a couple of clubs? Well, it is an exception, or not. There's maybe a couple of examples, but I think he's earned that time. I don't think anyone's given him. I think it's justified off the success that he's brought to the club. That's the reality. I think we're all in short-term positions, to be honest, because we're in a short-term sport, so you have to earn that time. Sometimes you could maybe feel how she treated or manager is, but if you've been at a club for as long as he has, and two different spells, then I'm sure he's earned that time with not just success on the pitch, but how he's built the team up and earned money for the club with recruitment and selling players on and so forth like that. So I think any manager that's had significant time at a club has earned that through how they've produced results. He's very much got his sort of imprint on the club, hasn't he? So many young lads coming through or players coming in. They know exactly the sort of acrantons down the way. He's got his big talent. Yeah, I think, and that only comes with time. That's the thing. If you want a culture that's developed by one person or one idea, then it takes time to do that because there's such a turnaround in players. Cultures can change clubs every six months or nine months, but if you've been there for as long as John has, then you can get it working exactly how it needs to be. I think there's always different aspects at different clubs and acrantons are a very unique football club, but no one knows it better than John Coleman because they come hand in hand. So yeah, it's great to see when you see that longevity in football. There's been a lot of energy spent by him as well in doing the same job year in, year out and producing results out of nothing. So, not only has the team got to fight in the hands, I think I have as well. I was going to say, you don't seem to have a melo at all, a touchlock at all in a jibby bell, though, there? I think passion is important for your job, certainly in football anyway, so it's how you express that. I think we're all capable of showing that passion in different ways at different times, but if you haven't got the energy and the passion for football and for winning games, then football's going to churn you out and spit you out. That's the reality, so you have to have that inner drive, that inner love for the day-to-day, where it's not just the results, but it's the day-to-day that you have to enjoy. I wouldn't say you have to enjoy because there's certain things that you'd love to pack and never see again, but there's enough in the game and the sport and the role to get immense enjoyment from him, and I'm sure he's had those moments over the years. You were saying about 17, 18 games in the season, teams are where they deserve to be, and obviously from your own point of view, I think 19th place at the moment, supporters inevitably are looking very nervously at the table saying what's going on. Is it a base where you still feel from there the season still very much alive towards what everyone's aiming to do ultimately? I was thinking about this last week and I think we've got to stop talking about the end game, the end thing and focus on what's right in front of us, me personally. Because it is a continuation of a lot of small steps and a lot of small wins, small wins, small wins keep going, keep going, and then see where you are in a position to compete for good things, but I think similar to when I was talking about focusing on things outside the game, trying to focus on the end result six months away or five months away, you know what I mean, let's focus on what's right in front of us and there's a fierce competitor in front of us. We've got to be a fierce competitor and if we can overcome those battles along the way, we have to see where it takes us, but let's just have the pressure of trying to win on Saturday first and deal with that and then let's see where we go from that, but I've been in the game a long time, both as a player certainly in England in 46 game seasons, there's loads of periods throughout it, there's loads of time, what you don't want to do is put off alright, let's start kicking in here, you have to be straight away, but seasons can go both ways through a month of good or negative results, I think probably if you had gone back a month ago everyone was really optimistic because there had been a couple of wins and everyone was bright and thinking we're just this off this and that and then a couple of defeats sort of knocks you down, but this what I'm trying to this balance of where we are mentally, let's just focus on our job right that's right in front of us and see where it takes us. Sometimes it plays, I suppose you're going to get that much other plays when you're in the magnificent goldfish bowl, you've got to parade a little bit with a big crowd and that inevitable big demand it sometimes can be difficult perhaps to sort of switch off from that outside distractions. That's what we're professionals to know when to focus on and what to focus on certain things, so there's loads of distractions, there's distractions in your training programme where you make socialising or your wife wants to take you shopping all day but you've got to focus on what you've got to do, it's the same in when you go into a stadium, you've got to try and manage your emotional thoughts and feelings into what's necessary and what you can control, but if you're at Bradford playing in front of a big crowd you've chose to be here, you've chose to take on that challenge, I would have thought it would have been a positive in you thinking as a player or as a coach of coming here, of the excitement of playing in front of 18, 19, 20,000. It's got to be an excitement for me if you think about it but then you can't, that's the reality when you're in front of it then you can't shrivel up and die, you need to start and go yeah this is what I wanted to do, this is what I wanted to be a part of and actually relish that sort of opportunity. Going back for you, back to Fadain, obviously now he's sort of back in the mix, I mean you know you've seen him, he's had a very good career, he's a sort of striker that defenders hate to play against and he's a handful, presumably you know he's there from minute one to 90 don't you? Yeah I think so, I think you know I spoke to him just before he went on, I told him to take it easy and just see himself through for 20 minutes and he's chasing the right back down line and trying to slide tackle him and that's not really taking it easy but he says to me once you cross the right line that's how he is, fully committed, I love that, I love that sort of that feeling, that full commitment, that's what we want, that's what we want our team to be but for your team to be that you have to have individuals like that so yeah we're well aware of Fadain's qualities but we do have to be patient, we understand that he's been out for a significant amount of time so you know let's not just go gung ho because he's played 20 minutes at the end of a game and you know that we think all right he's he's open firing, we have to make sure that we give him the time to to establish himself physically and back into to what's required to play for 90 odd minutes. As a manager though it must be exciting prospect knowing you've got a player like that once he's up you feel he's fit and firing you can throw him out there and you know he's available to sort of cause chaos. Yeah I'm excited about all our players because I think the more good players we have the better competition I think keeps everyone on toes and plus you know when it gets that 60-70 minute mark you know if you need to improve your performance or keep it going you've got good quality players on the bench to bring on to replace good quality players that's how a strong powerful squad should work and players have got to relish that competition and quality to have around them it should give them more confidence in trying to win games of football when you look around you look at your teammates and you think you are good player good player good player great lad works hard with us connected all that sort of thing that's when you I think as an individual you can you can build yourself as well by looking at the sport you've got because it is a team sport it's really important that we always remember that it's not about the individuals it's about how the team comes together but yeah you know I think there's there's several top performers in that in that team that squad and I'm excited to to work with and and sort of gel together but yeah so it's good to good to see him back