 How's the injury? Yeah, the injury is good. Obviously, it took breaks of breaks. They're quite, if the breaks clean, it's quite a simple injury, it just needs to heal. I'm at a stage now where it's healed and I can crack on with it. How much have you had to rein yourself in almost with the injury? Not a lot, to be honest. I've been trying to get myself early in as possible and try and do about three sessions a day. I wanted to have not much to come back into and excuses for me to have CV-wise. So for me, swimming, boxing, anything I can do which wasn't hindrance on the break I was doing. The injury list here is long, isn't it? Did that put a bit more pressure on yourself to get back as soon as possible? No, I never have much pressure on my injury. I know if I do everything from morning till night, right, I'm gonna get back fit. So whenever I have an injury, I look at the time scale and I make sure I'm back on that time scale. How frustrating has it been because your time since you arrived here, you've had your fair share of injuries, haven't you? Yeah, it's been frustrating. But even when I spoke to the specialist about this injury, the likelihood of getting that impact in that area had to be perfect. So I've got to just say it's an unlucky break but it doesn't keep you, it doesn't keep good people down for long, so the tackle happened and you just get on with it, get your head down. How has it been watching from the sidelines? Is it tougher when you're on the sidelines and the side is winning or as it is now when you're on the sidelines and things don't go so well? No, it eats away just as much as it will eat away all the lads, it hurts me. I'm just a part of them on the pitch even when I'm not there regardless who's playing. I want us to win and I want us to do well. So when I'm sitting there and obviously the results ain't going the way, it plays in my mind as well. So it actually gives me a bit more oomph to get back, a bit more firing my belly to try and get back and help the lads, that's all I wanna do. I wanna be here and a team that's together and pushing forward. You've not been able to kick a ball in anger obviously but how have you been able to help? Help those who have been able to? I think a lot of people would tell you I'd help by just staying positive at the end of the day regardless what the result is about the weekend. You need to come in and you need to work just as hard from a Monday to a Friday or a Monday to a Tuesday and if you're doing that and if you're showing the fans that we're coming in with a smile and a positivity and a work effort, I don't think you can hold too much against us if we're giving everything. They added frustration I suppose is that your injury came just before David Hopkins came in so you've not been able to show them until now what you've been able to do? Yeah, I mean, but I've been in obviously for a while now, you've just gotta do what you've always done and if your standards are there and if you keep your standards high when you come back, that's all you've got to show. So I think for me regardless when a manager changes you've got your own personal standards you need to keep up and you've got so much other things to think about rather than just thinking is do I really need to show the manager the airtime? You focus on your game and you focus on everything around it what you do in the morning to what you do when you leave the training ground and hopefully that comes across as me as a person and shows me what I can offer. How has it been this week as David Hopkins was pretty scathing, wasn't it after the Jilling and Diffy? It's been good. I mean, you have to bounce back. Obviously it's been harder when you're not training obviously from the day straight to the next game to see how the lads are. So obviously when you're in rehab you only see them partly but obviously now being back in training there's been definitely a reaction in training. You see the charm, you see the liveliness, lads are running hard, they're working hard and I'm sure you'll see a reaction. Was it tougher the fact that it was the attitude that was questioned when you have a bad performance perhaps if you play against a better side you can hold your hands up but when your attitude is severely questioned by the manager that's really hurt? It does hurt but I think if you're going to question the reaction you could say obviously first off we look different class. I mean, I've seen the clips, I've watched it. You can say it's down to confidence as well. Once one goal is in, it doesn't matter what type of person you are, when you're down at the bottom it hurts, it's hard to bounce back from. So us as players need to stop making excuses. Us as players need to galvanise us together when stuff goes wrong now, start taking responsibility that if your goal goes in we're not just going to fall down and die. We're going to show these fans that we still mean a lot to us and it means a lot to wear the shirt. Ready to bounce back then, at home to the league leaders, is that the best game to have or the worst game to have next? For me personally or... Well, however you want to. However, I don't think any game you're going to look at in a minute is going to be an easy game for us so you put top of league, you put fifth, sixth from bottom, we just need to show up as a team and have a work rate as I'm going to beat my man regardless who's wearing a shirt, you put Pompey in front of me, I'm not going to be scared of a Pompey shirt, so it's either we dog down, we get hard and we start running, working harder than we've ever done before and just try and put in a performance. The crowd have already performed something as well. Last Tuesday against Coventry it was the lowest crowd in over five years. They're going to have to play their part as well, aren't they? We need them, I've said it, we've always needed them and us as players need to give them just as much to cheer about and that's what as long as they keep coming in their numbers I tell you, the lads are going to work everything they've got to run and obviously me being back I'm going to emphasise that just as much, I'm going to give everything part of my character towards the other lads to make us a team, to make us a unit and to make us run hard. Tuesday night, of course, was the Stephen Derby appreciation evening, David Hopkins and the first team squad were there. What do you take from that hello weekend? I take the video I watched of him, I take his pride, his passion, his love for this club and it shows how much he obviously meant when he wore this shirt. So for me personally, when I've seen someone with a character like that, it gives me motivation, it gives me willingness, it gives me want to wear this shirt, it gives me passion and desire and if you can't get that off the video that you watched watching him talk then this place ain't right for you. Like, take a bit of his passion and his desire and you have 11 people like that, I tell you, we'll get out of this situation. So we need to start seeing men on the pitch, men off the pitch and characters like him. And the night itself, there was plenty of backing for David Hopkins, plenty of backing for the current squad as well. Yeah, no, of course, that's always good to see, the fans are so good, that's what I'm saying, we need to give them more as players, don't make any excuses, look ourselves, everyone look at yourselves in the mirror and be a team and give what the fans deserve every week now, regardless of the result. Because I'm sure if they saw us working our hardest, given everything for this shirt and this place and this Bradford City, they'll be behind you. And that's all they wanna see, so we need to start giving it to them. Cheers.