 A oeddi'n meddygau i gael gwaith ym Mhwn yn fawr, a'r gweithio'r draw, a'r gael bod gennym fel cael ei gael. Ie, mae'n fawr i'n meddyliau. Ac yn fawr, mae'n meddyliau i gael, yn y pryd, y 4 gael, maen nhw'n ei ddweud o'r 4 gael. Fy hoffwch am yr ymddyliau, ond mae'n meddyliau i'n meddyliau i gael yn y gael yn y gael. Sometimes the people watching them get it on their back, going really far to that point. There was an awful manner of stoppage so we couldn't get ahead of steam going. When we made the changes, I thought it helped our performance. So, there's something for me to learn from that. They should have left the team alone for the second game and just gone with it. y gwaith yn y gweithiau. Onw mewn cael eu gweithio bach yma'r cefnod rhwng ac mae'n gwybod i ggylcheddiau ar gyfer gweithio sydd gyda'r mwyaf ac mae gyrraedd â'r ymwieith. Felly mae'n gwneud i'r gweithio y mynd i gyfrachau ond mae'n gwybod, ond mae'n ddi'ch cael eu gwneud ar hyn o gweithio'r gweithio gwaith ymylchiwyr. Yn fynd i'r gweithio'r gweithio, Ond y bigfyn yn sylwedd yn sicr wedi bod yn cenderfynol o gyfan y gwahol, ac fe ddim yn oed, os ydych yn ôl meddwl. Felly, ni'n ganes Pond o Cymru yw mwy blod. mae'r bilau i Siwyddon yn hynu ar y bydd yaa i'r hyn? Rwy'n chael hynny. Dwi'n meddwl o gyfan yw pwysig, so rydyn ni'n i chi rywbeth a chyfodd i'r sydd wedi'u sydd oherwydd ein bwysig hwnnw. A fyddwch chi'n ei chyfodd i'n meddwl, mae'n meddwl oesれi ar y ffordd, ..Ind, on the weekend. They seem fine in their training sessions until 8 so, fingers crossed. I'll just go through some of the other injuries which can be a bit better at times. Alex Gilliad first, how's he coming along? He's just coming along in his rehab. I think he was out on the grass with the physio on his own. Doing a bit of grass work so his step forward for him. Rhaid i chi'n f 열�wyr i'r een iawn, rhaid i chi ddim yn gweld i'w lwylo wneud wedi credu. Rhaid i chi wedi cael ei fod yn gwahanol o pairnau i'w gwahodd ti'n iawn i'w gwahodd a'i ddim yn cael ei awgictod. Yn ag oes iawn i'n gwahodd i'r wneud, rydw i'n ddigon i'w gwahodd chi yn gorffaniaeth, ma'na fel y cyfnodbeth wedi cael ei ddigon i'w rhaid i'w chyfyddo. Ysgoeis checkwyr i'r iawn i Sam Stubbs? Sam is still missing unfortunately and Ash was going to train with us today but we had to be on the 4G so it was difficult for him to train today so if we'd have been on grass he'd have been with us but unfortunately that wasn't the case so I think he'll be with us before the weekend but he's obviously missed a big chunk and it's really difficult to put players straight into contention as we've seen in the last few months. They take a bit of time to get up to speed and we don't want to risk any further injury at this stage or at any stage really but we'll see how he is. Alex Paterson, is he the chance to alter it into him before the end of the season? I thought we got to the bottom of the list there but yeah Pato, Cudi if we really pushed him I think he could potentially return before the end of the season is the risk worth it when he's been out for so long to get maybe one or two games I'm not so sure so yeah he's trained twice with us last week but a little bit managed. He has to have a recovery day in between and I think it would be a long shot for him to play for us this season it's not something we're particularly pushing hard for right now because we feel it would be a really important play for us and we don't want a recurrence of what's happened to him this season. I guess for the player like him that's had that long injury spell is a case of mitigating the risk isn't it and especially we saw a few games to go? Yeah because we really managed it so carefully last time he was trained with us for quite a while quite a few weeks before we actually dipped him into a couple of games and still then it was only 20-30 minutes and we never got to the point of starting him and still he had a recurrence. So that gives us food for thought going with our decision making going forward and I believe if we don't have to take that risk then we won't and I think we'll have a safer return for Pato, come pre-season and everything so he's chomping at the bit and he wants to do that but he wants to play a long part for us and not just a one game or something like that so we'll probably look after him. Just looking slightly further down the line Graham and with the wider squad and I appreciate it's probably only so much you can say on this subject but how far along are you with starting to make decisions on certain players for next season and another sort of summer plans as well? Well we've got a meeting tomorrow. There's a group of staff to talk through the squad and what we hope it to look like for next season but we want to finish this season strongly as strong as possible but we have to start having these discussions in house first obviously and put our opinions and ideas across so it's early stages yet because obviously we were concentrating hard on the games and still chasing something that was in front of us but we're going to start having those conversations tomorrow and then we'll take it from there. There's obviously been a new addition as well this week to that sort of football operations group in David Sharp. What do you make of that appointment of David? Yeah I think it's a positive one. I think I spoke to Ryan maybe ten days ago and I think I mentioned that we spoke after the Harrogate game about how all we were thinking about was how do we make Bradford City a better football club and take it forward and obviously Ryan went to see Stefan as well and then we had a further conversation about what we feel we can do. Ryan spoke about David and his potential joining us and how it would look, the role and everything to support everything we do here so yeah I was more than positive about it and then I spoke to David yesterday for an hour or so on the phone and then we'll meet up tomorrow at the meeting to formally sit down and have a chat about what we think going forward. I'm looking forward to it. I think it's still obviously very early stages because it was only announced today and I only spoke to David personally yesterday but as we go over the next month or so towards the end of the season we'll get to know each other much better and we'll define the relationship how it works between us all, myself, David, Stephen, Jen, Ryan and then take it forward. That conversation you had with him yesterday, is that the first time that you've actually met him or have you come across him previously in your career group? I've not met him personally, obviously I've played against his teams when he was a wigan, when he was a chairman, my Scum Club team competed against his teams then but not personally now so yes he was the first time I had the opportunity to speak to him, it was a really positive chat. From what you sort of know at this point, what's your working relationship going to look like, how involved is he going to be with what you do and vice versa as well? He's here to support, he made that clear to me yesterday that he's here to support me and the rest of the staff in helping Bradford improve as a football club and however that looks it's like when you come in as a manager you look at everything, you sort of get your ideas and it takes a little bit of a while before you get your bearings and understand how things work because all clubs are different. They all have different ideas, different philosophies and different structures so I think David will first of all be understanding how this club works I think is the most important thing and then obviously how he can support me in my role and the other people in my role like Stephen and like Ryan and I think he brings wealth of experience from his time at Wigan and Mansfield and so hopefully he can bring similar success to us. Looking ahead to the weekend then and Gilligan, there are another team that are sort of in that cluster of teams that are still pushing for the playoffs. What do you make to them at the minute that are obviously coming off the back of a pretty heavy defeat as well against Harrogate? I think they've been, we obviously played them early in the season and we had a fantastic victory down there and they've changed their shape a little bit in the last few weeks so that might change again before the weekend but they've got some good players and Stephen Cremnus is a very experienced coach and he's doing a really good job. The challenge will be the same as most weeks in League 2 where everyone is fighting for the points for their own reasons so we want to try and continue where we have left off in the last two games and extend those periods of good play and create opportunities and take advantage of those so we have to build on what we've done in the last couple of games. And just finally from me Graham, regards of what the table is saying at the moment in the next few weeks, how important for you is it to finish the season on a strong note when it comes to sort of personal pride and that sort of thing? I've said it many times, I think from pre-season right the way through to bounce games, to reserve games, league games, court games, it never changes the will to win, it should never change, it shouldn't anyway, it should always be there, that determination to win a game of football. As soon as you pull that shirt on you're representing in the football club, you're representing yourself, everybody else is connected to you so all those things are always apparent every time you cross over the white line for a game of football so I don't differentiate between competitions, between stages of seasons, I think it's important always to try and win, you can't always guarantee that obviously no one can do that but it's important always to try so the biggest thing for us is we've had a really difficult spell. We've started to climb out of it with four points in the last two games, the importance of the game Saturdays is the same as the last couple, we want to go and try and put on a performance for the supporters and try and win the game, that mantra will never change from my side. Thanks Graham, best of luck at the weekend. Thanks very much, cheers. There's you saying about that mantra of keeping it going, I mean I'm just with the players, is there a sort of sense that perhaps a little weight's been lifted after the last couple of performances given what had happened the previous couple of weeks? Yeah I do, I think we tried straight away after the Harrogate game to put it into perspective, put it into what it was and then make sure that everybody's eyes were looking forward rather than looking back and I think the players responded well to that with the four points. I think that's how we always like to work, we don't dwell on anything in the past, we learn from it, we try and improve on it all the time, those things don't change but we certainly don't dwell on anything from previous, we have to focus on what we're good at, try and improve that if we can and finish the season as strong as we can. I think it's, I was looking at the, I was talking with Chris and a couple of the other stuff that I started team on Monday, I think there were six players with an average of under 30 league starts in England, that's a good chunkier team and a lot of these boys are learning what it is about playing week and week out in a competitive level and trying to win games. So we're trying to help them find that consistency in their performances, in their approach but sometimes we'll just dip and I felt we did that last week but I'll have to take accountability for that as well but we always try to improve on the next performance and that's what we'll try to do. I was going to say you talked a lot about obviously trying to stay level and not get too high, too low but I mean you know as you say human nature when you've gone through a rut like that it is very difficult to stay upright and then to bounce back while they have done it's going to be up and down regardless of how you try and keep on the level. Yeah that's what life is, that's what football is and I think for us as professionals we've always got to remember that we want the players to have emotions, play with emotion and everything but it's got to be controlled emotion, it's got to be disciplined and we can't get too high or too low. If we want to be consistent it starts in your mindset and in your thoughts and putting things into perspective and not going from to the moon to the depths of the ocean it's really important for us to if we want to become that consistent team and consistently perform at high level then it does start in our mindset. The one thing I would give the players real good credit for is how they've come back from those four games because it was a terrible run of games, a terrible run of results but I feel they've shown people that they do care, I think they've shown people that we can perform in good spells. We've just got to extend those spells to longer parts of the game and then obviously from game to game to game and that's how we have to create this winning formula at Bradford City. But like I said there's a lot of boys in that group certainly in the matchday squad at the moment that haven't got a wealth of hundreds of games, it's quite a low amount so we have to help them as much as we can to understand how you train, how you focus, how you prepare for a game and then obviously how you take your training and everything you do in the preparation into the heat of a game. I was going to say, as a player do you sort of find, you perhaps start doubting yourself when you're in a bad run, I mean how do you sort of pull that round? Yeah of course you doubt yourself, I think anyone with an ounce of intelligence would always question what they do, certainly if they're not getting the results that they work for or try to get. It's human nature to doubt and question but that's why it's important to learn about what you're good at and learn how your preparation keeps you on track, how your discipline keeps you on track, your motivation, all those things, they all come into it and I think as you gain more experience in your football career you understand how to prepare for any eventuality. And that's what I've been talking to the players about in the last couple of weeks because I don't think when we've been punched on the nose in those previous three or four games we've felt at the canvas and struggled to get back up. I felt obviously the trammie game was a good result for us but we didn't take the punch on the nose, we did against Grimsby but we come back well so that's a sign of improvement. We have to continue that trajectory of improvement day after day, week after week if we want to be the team that we aspire to be. And going back to David Sharp I mean obviously that dynamic is sort of a manager with a head of football operations director of football we want to call this role. I mean some are very much in favour of it, some aren't so sure. How does it really work so you're sort of not stepping on each other's toes a little bit? I think for communication I think if you're growing up about it and you understand that we're all there to get the same thing and reach the same goals. I've worked with sporting directors, directors of football, I've had two at one club, amazingly so and still managed to create a successful football team at those clubs. For me all the roles in football they all come down to human interaction and it's not about the actual role, it's about how people get on together. Assistant manager is seen as a must have but if you don't get on with your assistant manager he's not good at his job or anything like that so it's not about the actual role or the job type, it's about people working together with a common cause, understanding each other's responsibilities, supporting each other in their responsibilities. I think that's how a team works and I'll talk a lot about the team behind the football team with me and my staff, the medical staff, strength and conditioning, the coaching. It's all about people trying to be heading in the same direction, understanding that empathy for everyone's roles and forming a team that creates a better football team to win games. That's where it is, it's not about the job type, it's not about how it works in a structural level. It's about how grown-ups get on and understand about using their expertise together. I said in January about when you talk about recruitment it's never down to one person whether it's the head of recruitment or the manager or the CEO, it's always a group of people and I feel that's the best way to work. So I think David and his experience and his knowledge will certainly help us in that respect. And in a way having a sort of fresh pair of eyes that sort of haven't got the background of being involved with this season might offer a different approach and perhaps a different angle look at things? Yeah, I believe so, I spoke to David about that yesterday, obviously I've only been here maybe five months or so and so I came in with fresh eyes but I've learnt a lot each month, it's not always been an identical month and I think we've gone through different stages of that season. So I've learnt a lot about the club and the group of players and I'm sure David will see it with a fresh pair of eyes like you say and even if it's a couple of things that he sees differently from us and gives us an idea or to think differently about an issue we have or a problem then that's how we're improving and that's all we're trying to do. Thank you. Hi Graham, hope you're well mate. I was just sort of running out, Daniel O'Udoch, he spoke to a really good lad and he was talking about how you kept in touch with him and on a regular basis found that really useful. Sort of getting to know the characters of your loan signings, any signings really, doing your own work, getting to know them as people that seems to be massive for you and it will be going forward. I think so, I believe it's, Dan was incredibly unfortunate with his injury in our first game and it made a really good impression on us in just two or three days training and then it kept in touch with him because we wanted to bring him back probably sooner than now but he's come back really motivated, he's a great professional, really good lad to have around, very adaptable. We really like him as a professional but first and foremost as a person I think we have communication with all our players and not over the top, I think they've got a lot of people to communicate with but it's important that we understand them, understand their desires, what their ambitions are and it's important that they know us, that's the biggest thing. I kept in contact with Dan because I wanted him to slip back into it really quickly, not have to regenerate new relationships really once so it's good to have him back, we thought it'd take a bit of time for him to get up to speed but the way he's looked after himself, he was watching our games from afar even before he came back so he was every credit to him. It's been a good timing of him coming back because we've needed him. Because with the club like Bradford City as well so you need ability but characters massive in any sign you've got to get the right sort of lads in them. I don't think it's just unique to Bradford, I think it's football clubs in general I do. I think there's pressure on all teams to win games, whatever level it is and character and personality can take you a long way and the better characters you can have then your team is going to show that sort of character and personality. We need that because whatever team you are, you're never going to play well every single week and you're going to have times of drama and negativity and it's about your character that brings you through it. I feel Dan has a really good character, he's at the start of his career and hopefully his spell with us will be a really positive one. There are some clubs at this time of year that things wind down but obviously you've got a new football operations guy and if you've got this season it's cranking up into the next. It seems like you're going to be extremely busy with all sorts of things, you speak about meetings and you're not going to get much of a break really but I guess knowing you that's probably what you enjoy. There's so much more to this role than the public see. I'm used to it, I've been doing it for 10 years now and very rarely I've had more than 10 days off in a summer. It's always been recruitment, trying to work out training grounds and training pitches organised. Make sure absolutely everything is ready for the players coming back in on day one. It's so important that we start off on the right foot in a professional manner and in an ambitious manner and if you're not prepared then you put yourself on the back foot. I know it's difficult sometimes because I think Bradford may have been a victim of that, being in the playoffs last year and having a shorter summer so if you leave things till the summer it's too late, you have to start now or even before. We've been organising pre-season friendlies for probably a month to six weeks out so it's good but I'd rather be busy than bored. Yeah, absolutely. Obviously you get injuries, impact injuries, you can't do anything about them but these soft tissue ones, meagly ones, it's been about a few or other Bradford this season and probably over a few seasons. Is that something that's a bit of a concern you're looking at? Yeah, all things that take players out of the equation to play are some things that we try to improve on. I think there's not a football club in the world, no matter how many millions you spend does not pick up injuries, it's the type of injuries. You're right, if there are things that are preventable then you have to try and look at that but you have to understand that if you train at the right levels you're going to pick up injuries because some people can't reach those levels or can't maintain them. But we have to train to win, we have to train to win, it's not just about being available, we have to train at a certain level that forms a team that can go all the way 50 games a season. So these are things built, so many things go into players fitness levels and it's history, sometimes it's just the athlete recruiting the right athletes, looking after them, pushing them hard, training pitches, all those things, they all come into the equation and keep players fit. The best thing is the players are on work ethic and discipline, for me, they train at the right levels, they eat the right things, they drink the right things, they sleep, that is a massive chunk of it. So a lot of the time it's player education that will help the issues as well, so we'll look at every aspect to try and make sure we don't have another season like we have because there has been too many for anyone's liking to be fair. Thanks for your time, it's a big thank you. Hi Graham, you mentioned there about being in the job for a few months now and you mentioned about that first window there in January and obviously you brought in back Tyreek Rice after a successful loan the previous season. In terms of that, were you made aware by the scouts or did you watch some videos or were you aware of Tyreek's performances the year previous with Bradford or is it normal for clubs to go back in for a player that's previously done well on a loan and was it hard to convince him to come to you again for the second time around? That's a long question, that one. I think just along the normal recruitment lines I think the first thing we had to do was try and get the numbers down to a manageable level because they were too big before January so we managed to do that. We felt defensively we were in a good place as a team. I felt we had struggled to score the amount of goals we needed to to be successful so we identified what we needed so it was first of all what does this squad look like. We weren't just oh he's available let's take him, we had to look at players or look at the team and say right we need this, we need this, we need this and right who is out there to help us bring these certain skill sets to our team and our club. Obviously we were bringing Jay Young back which was a big one for us, we brought in Callum Cavernor and we brought about Tyreek Reich so I spoke about having people with mobility and pace and a goal for it. So they were the sort of things that I spoke to Ryan and Stephen about and then we set about trying to find those certain individuals and there was more, obviously there was a lot more than the three that we did sign and obviously we had to replace Harry Lewis who moved on and we brought in Sam Walker. But I didn't want to have a massive turnover play, I think January windows are really difficult windows, I think we were quite disciplined in what we wanted to do because we felt we had to trim the numbers down to then give the squad the opportunity to perform. But unfortunately with Tyreek he got injured in his first game, came back, scored two against Atkins and got injured in that game so it's been a difficult time for Tyreek but he's training well at the moment so hopefully he's back up to match fitness. And Greg, when you assign lone players in January do you look at them for maybe a short term view towards the end of the season or is there even a possibility of a long term interest in terms of that when you look at a lone signing or is every lone signing have different scenarios attached to it? Yeah, yeah, they're all different I think. Some players that we don't know about their parent club's long term ambitions for that player whether they might be available in some or they've got high hopes for them in their club and they just send them out for experience. So they're all different scenarios. If there's an opportunity for us to do anything with a couple of lone players then we will certainly be having those discussions going forward from between now and the end of the season. But yeah, all the loans are in different aspects and different scenarios around them but the biggest thing is can they help us try and win games and that's what we try to do in January. Yeah, and you mentioned there about that sort of 10 day madness and match that really start to upset your start to season in terms of that sort of push for the playoffs and that when you're in that sort of bad bubble as I say in terms of a manager when you're in that sort of when teams seem to be hitting the fan as the saying goes with those five games. Is it really hard to see inside out? Is it hard to put a figure on where teams are just disintegrating so fast until you get out of that bubble and you turn the other corner and then you can see oh well maybe it was a certain thing there that caused that run up form? Yeah well we tried to break it down to individual games so it's you know after the first defeat we broke it down to what do we do that brought that game that result on and then we tried to correct it for the next one but you know games can turn on moments and what we found in those games is we certainly the first one against forest green we conceded after 50 seconds or something put ourselves on the back foot day I think we had about 80% possession for the rest of the game and we just couldn't break them down. You know it was very difficult as you can see with other teams that do that and then obviously we came all against Mansfield and Knox County the highest scoring teams in the division it just became a little perfect storm over that time but what we tried to do when we kept the Harrogate game was the biggest one for us because we you know it just it just wasn't a performance we wanted to be a part of you know that was it and so we actually you know we just spoke to the players on the next day in training and we tried to settle everybody down we tried we didn't try to sweep anything on the carpet but we did I just don't want those any group of players or staff to just look back and mope and moan and grown without trying to do something about it that's that's it I think the best thing to do in any of these scenarios is try to find what we can do better and then try and put an action plan in place so we're actually doing something to make it better rather than just wishing it or just hoping or just bitching and whinging about what's gone on before I think the most important thing is having a proactive mindset right these issues how do we overcome them how do we improve upon them let's put them into practice I think the players have tried to take that on board we are not going to go from that group of games to a perfect team performance week in week out it doesn't happen that quickly but the players and team have shown good progress in the last two games to come out of that little black hole we were in for it it was it was two weeks you know that that's the thing it was like quick succession it wasn't like a month to six weeks of bad form we were the second highest in the form table before those two weeks and those four games really not the stuffing out or what we could potentially achieve I felt but the players have shown a good response in the last two games and I think that the supporters have responded to that as well certainly after the last two games I think they've shown their appreciation to the team and the only way we can ever achieve anything is everyone is trying to support each other through thick and thin through good times and bad times everyone can have their opinions on what we could do better I understand that and I respect that gravely but when we get on to that pitch or we get into that stadium everyone has to be on the same boat if we can be but our responsibility is to invite the fans on to that boat by playing and performing in a way that justifies their support and final question from me Agriam in terms of motivation now on the field plan for the end of the season we know all the good stuff going off the field in terms of Bradford City at the moment is it really set the targets now is it up to the war chapter is it top 10 finishes that would realistic the aim for Bradford City to get inside that sort of top 10 I mean that's points wise that's a realistic target I suppose financially finishing higher up the table where you finish over off the gives you a net sort of reward as well in terms that so is that the real incentive now to finish inside that top 10 maybe for the end of the season? I think that for me our incentive to show people that we're serious about winning we're serious about making this club a better club that we want to repay people's faith we want them to be on a part of this it's all on the emotional and airside for me that they see a team that they can be potentially proud of in we haven't been successful in what the club's set out in the last summer we don't think that will be achieved this season could be torn out of place but let's be honest but there's still things that we can show that in the future we can create a successful team the players the staff myself and that for me is that there's always a pride of how you handle yourself when we lose draw in how you act how you aspire to be in the future and we're trying to hopefully in the next few games we will give people the belief that things are better in the future and there are good things to come