 Mae gennym i siw i ni again. Yn y ddiddorio gan y cyfnod yma yng Nghymru, o'n ei gwirio, a'r dysgu ar y ddechrau'r gwybod yn oeith am ordenol, ac mae'n gallu wneud o'r grwych yn y gwasanaeth ar y ddechrau. Mae'n dwybraf i ddweud o'r ffrahu a'u gofyn nhw. Ond mae'n dwi'n dros i gyfo'n eu gwirio, ond mae'n gallu gwirio ffrahu o'r ddechrau. Mae'n dechrau fastyn o'r ysbyty, ond mae'n gallu gofyn nhw i dweud. Mae i'n gofyniwch yn y helau, Ac rai i gwneud eu chyflwyr mewn hyn, rydyn ni'n molygyl cooperation arall, i gwybod at yw'r hyn sy'n mynd yn eu bach sy'n gallu cyfrifoedd z Orion i'r holl ddweud am gyngor 1000 yr un iawn. O'r hynny, rwy'n dweud llawer i'r bai amser y мыf. Rwy'n rhaid i gyd-di, bod wrthyn ni wedi cael ei ddwy. On lwytaeth peth yn eu lim bydd yn ddyn nhw'n gofyn a'n gwybod â'r sgwad i'r rhaid am dewis yn eu peirion. Felly roi ddigonio ar rydyn ni, a ganddoedd gen i'r cyfnod. Felly rydyn ni'n ffroed chi'n wrth ffrwng o gyd yn y piliadau.� y ffrodd, mae'n gwahanlu i'r ydyddol diwrnod, mawn i'n ffrwngio arall i ddim, rydyn ni'n ddweud amser y ffordd. Rydyn ni'n chysylltu gweithio ar y gyfriffrwng yn nhw. Fydd ymbryd, yn yr eich arnau, sy'n rhoi roedd yna yn rhoi ddydd chi'n bwysig ni yn rhoi arall y rymau? Nid yw'r ystafell, yw'r ystafell o'r hyn yn mynd i'ch cyd-ynau eu cyd-yddiad ddatblygu'r gweithio. Rhaid i ni'n gweithio'r ystafell o'r gweithio'r gweithio o'r cyd-dynau. Dyna dwi'n ganchael eich bod yn ein ddweud o'r cyd-dud o'r cyd-dud, ac ar ôl yna mewn gwirio'n gwneud o'r cyd-dud, ond mae'r hyn yn gwneud o'r cyd-dud o'r cyd-dud o'r cyd-dud, ychwanegon oedon i fod o fod gyda'i arnod, ac os gofodd yn chyflwr i ddyliad y dyn nhw'n gwneud hyd yn ei hunain, maen nhw'n ychwanegon o'r ddwy'r peth iddyn nhw ynogi pray ein peth. Friendau, mae'n meddwl o'r ganfer o'r cyflog i'r oedon, ac mae'n meddwl o'r angen i ddim yn cael ei tarreddau. Oetheb, mae gennym ni gollewch yn y sgordond. Felly'n ni'n gofodd wedi'u arno. Rwy'n gwaith yn ymlaen ni'n mynd i'w ddyddion ythod o gyf ar gyfer y dyma? Rwy'n dda i ffru allanleidio'r ddiddorg gfryd â'r gyffredinol gyda y ddiddorg? Ie, mae mae'n ddiddorg, yn dda, mae'n gyffredinol a'i pryd yn bobl. Mae'n ôl yn ffordd hynny o ddiddorg, canu'n ddiddorg a'r ddiddorg, So dyna gynnwys fel rydyn ni'n sgwpio. Felly, mae'n ffordd, mae'n mynd i chi i amser iddo i'r wych. Mae'n ffordd, mae'n ffordd. Mae ydych chi'n meddwl i chi. Taric Wright yn ymgylchedd y tîm wrth i ymgylchedd yng nghymru fel y sydd yma. Gweithio y pethau ymgylchedd ymgylchedd ymgylchedd ymgylchedd yw'r mwyaf? Felly, yna'n gweithio yr ysgrifenni i'r lleol? REUH Gw anchodwch byw i'w Gwchunedd, a wefyd i'w rhydym yn y gyfnod amhd talking about the strengths of the squad, the potential areas where we need to improve and I just thought we needed a little bit more pace in our forward areas as we have got good score, good technical players so I don't think we've got anyone with that outright pace that can stretch teams. By 那 I'll give him a profile of what I was talking about. And maybe 10 days ago or so, I suppose mentioned Tyreek. I've obviously known about him from his previous time here, but not working with him. He fit the profile, of everything that we were looking to bring in. Then I have spoken to Tyreek about the potential coming back and how will I do things, and how he would fit in and I could hear the excitement in his voice about him coming back. Obviously, I doubt if it was particularly what I was saying, I think it's more on the memories of what he did in previous. So, yeah, listen, we want people who are Moved who are excited to be at Branffis City, it's a privilege to play for this club, so it was great to hear. And then there was a bit of a delay in the deal we tried to get done before the weekend, but unfortunately that was delayed and, yeah, but he's with us now, he's trained the last couple of days, so we're delighted to have him. You talk about that excitement, is that a bonus for you as a manager that you're bringing a player back to a club where he has fond memories of playing at this club within the last year or so and he'll know quite a lot of the players that were in the squad back then as well? Yeah, I think so, two ways really, because obviously for him he feels like, I think he feels he has unfinished business because of when he left last time, he obviously at the same time as this year. And I think from the other side, the players who did play with him and obviously the supporters who saw him already know what he can do, so I still think he has to prove it again because that's what football is, you have to constantly prove yourself, you can't just think I played well a year ago, it automatically happened so, but he's a guy with his feet on the ground, he knows what he has to do, and training works exceptionally hard, but the other players know that we've brought a quality player into the group and I think that's always a positive when players get a mental lift seeing good quality come through the door and know what their attributes are and certainly we're sorry, that's the case. He was used predominantly as a wide player but towards the back end of his spell, he was also used as a second striker with the top two. How would you look to best use him? Well, I spoke to him about this because obviously I watched his games at Plymouth as well and he's been playing wing back there, so I see him in any of the attacking areas really, the way our wing backs play is quite an attacking position to play. He's a forward more than a back, so I think he can play any one of those, we've played with front three in the last couple of games, front two before that, wing backs in the last 10 or 11 games, so I think he can be in a really good addition for all those positions to be honest. I've not brought him here to be a utility, messing around, playing all over the place, but I like players that can play in a couple of different positions. I think he gives us options mid game or for different selection issues, so I think he's just got qualities that any manager would like to have in his team. So it's about finding the right balance with the other good players because he's not just plonking them in there and disrupting what we've been doing so far, but we're really excited to get him because he gives us something that I feel we're a little bit sure of. We've spoken to him today, he says that he's set to start, he's fit enough, he could last 60 minutes, that's the players perspective, managers perspective, that's what he said, managers perspective. It's 95 minutes in a game. I ask that question, in what fitness state is he from your perspective? This is the really difficult one because we've only had him Tuesday and then obviously he's trained today, so we're assessing him, we haven't seen the data from today, I saw it from Tuesday and he handled that quite well. So he looks sharp, he looks fit enough, he hasn't played a lot of football to be fair since he left really over the course of a year, so we've got him for the next 19-20 games. We have to make sure that we keep him for that 19-20 game period and not just flog him to death, but from what I've seen so far he could potentially start. I can tell you what minute he can last too, but we need players that have high energy, we play in a highly energetic way, so we want players who can last longer than most, but we've got different options for those positions. We'll see how he does, but we've got another data to assess him tomorrow as well. He certainly looks trimming off and ready enough and he's still at a good age to have loads of energy. In terms of further additions this window, do you envisage any more or are you happy with what you've got right now? I feel we need maybe one of the players at the moment with the current squad that we've got. We're discussing behind the scenes about who, we haven't got a defined actual player, but what we've looked at, what we've done really well over the last 10 or 11 games, where we need to improve and now we're looking for a certain type of profile of player that will help us improve again in that, but if we do go for that type of player and get that player at the moment, I'm really happy with what we have in the building. Is that in a specific area on the field, a particular role? I'm going to keep that to myself, because I just want to see how the next couple of games go, but it's something that I feel we're potentially missing to add to our armory, but I'm really pleased with what the players have given us. There's still obviously things we have to improve, but the players are coming to terms with what we want to do. We're still in a part of a period where we've changed from one style of play to another, and the players have got 70, 80, 85% of that really well, which is just that extra bit that we have to go and turn the games in our favour. I know one of the main ambitions coming into this window was trimming down the squad. Are you any closer in achieving trimming down the squad? To move forward, because there is a budget constraint. We can't go and spend whatever we want to. We have to use it as a business, bring in cash flow to go out and improve the squad. If those want to move out, then we'll be able to bring another one in. We'll see how the next 10 days go. Just on Rehan Tullock, I know I asked you about him a week or so ago, and I think you said at the time that it was likely that he might move the club. Is that still a case? To be frank, he will be moving on at some point. He's on loan, and there's a deal in place, but he understands he's not going to play here. For a lad of his talent and abilities, he needs to go out and play. I know his contract's up at the end of the season, so for his own good he needs to go and play games to make sure he secures his future. He's trained with us today. We're doing the right thing by him, but at some point I would expect him to move on. Team Newswis is going into Saturday. How are you shaping up and have you been able to welcome any back into training? No, not from the injured guys. No, we haven't had any additions from that, unfortunately. I think it's difficult at the moment, because obviously with the weather we've only been on 4G this weekend, so it's difficult to reintroduce lads who have come back from injury onto a surface like that. It's just been the same squad. We haven't lost anybody from the last squad, but we haven't added any to it. We're down to roughly about 18-19 players, which is fine with me. We've got enough to pick a good team, pick a good bench, so we'll be ready by Saturday. How close is Jamie Walker? I think this week maybe knocked him back a little bit. We were looking to potentially get him out on grass. He went out on the grass on Tuesday, but it was like this table. It was rock hard, so we just didn't push him, and it's the same again today. It's going to be the same again tomorrow, so unfortunately the weather has postponed that next step in his return to training. We'll see hopefully if whoever gets better over the weekend he can potentially be on the grass, not with us. He's with the medical team, but that's the next stage of his recovery. Lewis Richards? Lewis potentially would be with us tomorrow. We saw him out with us on the 4G, but only in a little managed session, and then joined in one part of us. He's going to potentially train with us fully tomorrow, depending on how he feels from today. If that goes well, he'll be back in training next week. He'll obviously have no part to play on Saturday, because he hasn't trained with us since he went out injured. Jake, you're? Jake was around the pitch jogging around with Lewis today. He did a little jog on Tuesday, I think it was, around our pitch. I'm kicking a few balls today with the medical team, I haven't seen Dale since training. He's progressed each day, which is a positive. I just spoke to him there in the gym, and he's feeling good. Fingers crossed that continues just in the speedy it has. Just on Jake's situation. I think you said at the weekend at Colchester that you'd rejected another bid from a club who was interested in Jake's situation. Obviously, there's a player in the middle of all this, and there's bids coming around, bids being rejected, there's a lot of talk about his future. How is he in himself? I don't really know on that perspective. I haven't sat down. I've got 20 other players to look after, and I suspect my first priority at the moment is the one trying to win points for us and playing, so that's where my main focus is. For Jake, it's a good place to be that people want him. You've got to be rude when no one wants you. That's when you've got to feel sorry for yourself. If people want you, it means you've got a good potential, you've done a good job. It's always a good place to be. It's obviously easy for individuals to handle it. I'm here if you want to speak to me about it. I did sit down with Jake a week ago and sat down at the proper chat with him about the whole situation, about using my experience as an ex-player. He's the only young player I've probably experienced in this type of scenario for the first time. I gave him a little bit of advice, told him where I stood on the situation, how much I want him to be part of our team. From my perspective, I couldn't wait until he was fit. Do you get the feeling that he wants to stay? I think there's scenarios. I think he's potentially, when he came back, a little bit confused about everything going on. He hadn't spoken to me at that particular point because he wasn't here. I left him to play at Swindon. Only when he came back in did I have a first conversation with him. Then it snowballed into all the interest and everything like that. The first time I sat down with him was last week. There's definitely a scenario there where he would like to stay. I say he's got options. There's potential options. He's got a two and a half year contract, which he has to honour. We want players staying in for the right reasons, but it's got to be the right reasons for us as well. We have conversations. We try and work out the best-case scenario. I just wanted Jake to understand from my perspective exactly how I thought where I'll swim in our future and the potential for future moves, future progression. It doesn't have to just happen in this next two and a half week window. Whatever potential option he does take, at 22, you've got to think of your career first and foremost. It was a good conversation. I think he appreciated that conversation. I wanted him to be clear about my thoughts on everything, instead of reading bits and pieces, joining the gaps through representatives, all the clubs, all that sort of stuff. I made it clear to him, which I think he appreciated. I spoke to him a couple of times, not only on a normal good morning, how you're doing this and that. Let's be honest with you, there's a squad that comes first before any individual, but we care for the players. I understand every player's individual. I've probably experienced everything that they go through. Of course, it's a 24-year career, so I try to have a little bit of empathy for where they sit and not just look at it from my perspective, but look at it from the clubs, from the players and from mine, and try to join the dots. You mentioned that they've been interested in some of the current squad from other clubs. Has the club received any official bids for any of the players in the squad? No, just inquiries about potential loans or what their scenario is, long-term stuff like that. Just the normal stuff that goes on nearly every day in January. Nothing concrete for any of the players, so we'll just see how they progress. Just finally from me, I know you were bitterly disappointed with how things ended in Colchester. Reflections on that game for you, Graham, and how you've looked to use those reflections this week with the group? So we just focused on that, and a little bit of the mistakes, and it was only tiny little mistakes. You couldn't look at one player and say that was a blame mistake, but just a couple of tactical mistakes we made all in one move. It was three little mistakes, but it was a big consequence. We conceded a goal out of nothing, and then immediately went back to what we were doing, and then we're in no trouble for the rest of the game. So that's how dangerous it can be if you lose your focus for one minute, for ten seconds in a game, that you can get punished, and we got punished. But when we looked over the game, it was a game we obviously should have won again, but we want to get to those fine details, and that's what we've focused on. We've got a lot of stuff right, but the games can be down to the finest detail. And that's where we've got to really focus on, because they're small things, but they're big consequences or big rewards, and that's what we want to get back to. But we wanted to strengthen the players' mindset in what we've done so well in those games as well. It's just about this issue. Listen, look at all this other stuff that we're doing so well. So it's just a little reminder of the progress we've made since Knox County, which has been massive, but there's still more to go. And that's what it is. It's delighted with the players, what we've done so far, but we're still not where we want to be as a team, or in obviously the lead table in points. Thanks, Graeme. OK. Obviously, Yorkshire Derby this weekend. What are you expecting from Caster to bring in terms of how they play him? I think I went to watch him on Tuesday night, and they played really well. They deserved to win against Wigan in the Cup. So I think they're a good team. I think Grant's changed a few things in their formation and so forth. But yeah, they've got their threats. They've got certain individuals that are really good. And that we determined because obviously we only played on what, four weeks ago, five weeks ago or something. So there's potentially a wounded animal there, but as I say, we've got focus on our improvement we have to make. If we make that improvement, then I feel we're putting ourselves in the best chance of winning the game. I think it happens every season when it's a quick turnaround of a fixture. Does it make it easier to play to me, or is it more difficult? I think it's a bit of both, really, because you know a little bit more about each other. So they know more about us. We know more about them. So that's equal because we're both the same. There hasn't been a big period of time to change that much between, even though it's in January where I think they brought in a few additions. Osleso, only, Utari, really, and Sam, sorry. So there's pros and cons, to be honest, but you could play the same opponent every day of the week for seven days. It would still be seven different games, you know what I mean? Because a little thing's happening at the instant and some players go in and out of form. So it would be a different game without a shadow of a doubt, but it's obviously born where you are on a similar result. Obviously, the weather this week, as you mentioned, have you really touched with the ground staff at Valley Parade? No, well that's Mark Harrison. Just give me an update on the state of pitch. At the moment it's unplayable. It's obviously rock hard. The weather forecast isn't fantastic until Saturday morning, so we're going to do everything we can to get the game on. We want to play games, but no one can control what's going on above at the moment. It's quite a few days on the shot sometimes. It's 24 hours, but it's okay. But if it's day after day, then it can set in. So the experts are down there now with their magic forks trying to warm up the pitch up. Hopefully we're going to prepare like the game is there for us. We won't do anything differently, so fingers crossed. Yes, we can all see about having a second offer for Jake Turned Down. Has there been any more further interest talk? Obviously it's well documented at the moment. No, I don't think so. Obviously there was a lot of talk about it over Tuesday and yesterday. Wel, mae'n ein club o'n addysgu'r partiliad, fel y bydd ganddo, rhai ni'n gallu neud anyddog fel ni'n pob yma, fel ôl o blaen o'r dim o'r piliadau, fel y gallwn yn gwneud efallai eu rhywbeth. Ty chem dwi'n cael ei fath. Ac mae'n gael yn teimlo i'r club o amser hynny? Oherwydd mae'n gweithio'r gweithl. Mae'n wneud i'r amser o'r gweithl, Cymru'r gweld a'r ddweud y prifau cysylltu? Yes, it's wrong. It's plain simple it's wrong. I didn't speak about Jake and he was out of play when he was on my own, out of respect for him doing a job for Swindon at that time. I didn't speak to him about him but I didn't want to. He was wrong because I spoke to the manager of myself last week who contacted me and asked me about him and I told him the thoughts on Jake. I did not want to sell them. I could not be in any clearing out. It is straight after a game, so I know my emotions come right. I have been there myself, but there are certain things that you know. It does not matter what it is, it is not an excuse. So, I am disappointed from my perspective, because I spoke to the manager myself, about Jake. Is there an agenda behind it, potentially, about letting a player know? I do not think he has any right at all to set any price on any other team's player, to be honest. So, I did not really get where he was coming from, to be honest. But we were quite clear with him, I was quite clear with him in my conversation. So, we crack on, but we are all grown adults in a country of free speech, but that is how it is. With January and the speculation as it is, it just throws another thing into the pot. From Jake's point of view or the player's point of view, it is something else thrown at him. Like I said, I had a clear conversation with the manager myself. I told him that I had no interest in selling Jake young, that he was part of my plan, so I wanted to keep him here. I spoke to Jake myself, made it clear of my thoughts and my ideas about him and us. He decided to say what he said after his game. I think it was completely wrong. I do not think it was particularly disruptive to Jake, because I think Jake knows for sure how highly we rate him and value him. That is the biggest thing, which I told him to face anyway, but maybe that proves the point even more. So, he might have done me a favour, I do not know. On Tyreek, you spoke earlier in the week when Tyreek was signing. You said about the great reviews from Ryan and Steven Jett, and there was a suggestion. Perhaps are they picking your players to sign for you? You know how these things can grow legs. Presumably, you identify as a type of player. If they bring it to you, presumably it is your final decision. That is pretty much it. If all the recruitment was left just to me on my own and manage a team and take training, it is impossible. It is why we have a team of people that work for the same thing, but it is me that picks the team. It is me that goes, that is a good player. This is the profile we need, this is why I am here. I am here to pick a team, to manage a team, to use my football expertise, so-called, to do the right things for the team. So, explain it quite clearly, this is it. They did not say, right, you have got him. They said, well, we have got this player who is interesting to come about. Does he fit the profile, watched him, knew about him? Yes, he does. That is it. I do not know where these things come from, but there is absolutely no issue on that side of it. We have got our boundaries about where we did, like I said last week. I do not do budgets, I do not do that. I know why I am here. It is on the football perspective. People have this control, I have this control, they have that control. There are obviously bits that are interlink, which there has to be. But no, I am allowed to manage. Broadening that point a little bit, obviously, talking about with Ryan, the chief executive, he has obviously got a good relationship. No, Ryan hates his age being mentioned as being one of the youngest chief execs. How has that done out with yourself? Obviously, you are a bit older than the chief exec. What are you trying to say? How does that sort of work between you, that dynamic? Is it working well? It works like two blocks, working together. That is it. The whole age thing, obviously, until you said that, it has never crossed my mind. How old is he? Is he that young? Do not look it. Honestly, we work like we are supposed to work. He is CEO, I am the football manager. We work together, we discuss everything. He gives me advice on some things. I give him advice on certain things. We use his skill set, my skill set to make Bradford City better, hopefully. I have been a 19-year-old player, I have been a 39-year-old player. I have been older than a manager that I have played for. Do you know what I mean? The one thing, when I was 19, I wanted to be picked because I was good enough. When I was 39, I wanted to be picked because I was good enough. I did not want to be judged by my age or this or that. I would be the last person to judge anybody by anything so futile as that. To be honest, I treat everybody or judge everybody by how we talk, act. I can not really go any bigger than that, to be honest. Two blocks working together. One more, do you need to say? To be honest. On Doncaster, you have played three times in a short period of time. Three debutants on Saturday, I think two of whom were caught tight when you saw the choose. Are you expecting three quite different teams in terms of personnel for those games? No, not too much because I thought they played well. I am sure Grant was pleased with their performance and their result. When you bring players in to help improve your team, you are going to want to use them. I cannot read Grant's mind. I do not know how pleased he was with their performance, but I watched it myself. I would have been quite happy with it. My biggest focus is on getting my selection right and getting the team to play at its maximum potential level. That is regardless of the opposition, but we will have an idea of what it potentially could be. You only find out 75 minutes before kick-off when the team sheets come in, but you have probably gone over that potential scenario and you go with wherever you see. They will probably play in a similar style, regardless of the actual personnel in it. They do have different options to play in a different way. Obviously you had a really good night a few weeks ago. You probably took about 15 minutes to find your feet as a team, and then after that a really good performance at Doncaster. Sorry, I was delighted. You are right, I think it was a competitive game. It was a Yorkshire Derby. We had a massive following. It was just before Christmas, so there was a lot of that. It did not settle down in the three of a team until probably 20 minutes in, but by then both teams had scored and we got the upper hand and deservedly won the game in my opinion. But it will be here. There has been a lot of football played between then and now. We have to make sure that we are as positive as we were that night. That is the kind of what I was going to ask. Can you learn a lot from that, or the fact that there has been so much football playing and changes to both squads? I think it is the same in every game that you plan for. There is probably 77% of it that you are pretty sure of what you are going to find, and then there is another 25% that can change from game to game or, like you say, over a course of a month. So there is always that scope to the game to look differently or the opposition to look differently. But like I said, you can play the exact same two teams and it will be a different game altogether. So that is the nature of football and professional sport. We are looking forward to the game. We need to get back to winning ways. Our performance has been strong, but we haven't picked all the wins that we want. So we have to do that sooner rather than later. You talked a bit with Jeremy about conversations with Jay, with Dine, with Harry as well. What is important is honesty when you are managing these players in January, so that they know where they stand and you don't end up keeping an unhappy player or moving on wrong. It is not about keeping an unhappy player, because I think sometimes you have to do that. That is the thing. But I think it is good to have communication where they are not wondering what you are thinking. That is what I spoke to Jake about. I said there is a lot of talk out there, but you have not actually heard me speak. So I wanted to put you in the picture in case this is what you are getting from other people. This is exactly what I think about the situation. This is what I exactly think about you. I did the same with Vadain. I do the same with any player that knocks on my door and wants to speak, or if I pull them in to speak. I think sometimes I say things that they don't particularly want to hear or like to hear, but it is the truth or it is my truth and how I want to see things. Then they can manage the situation a little bit better because they have more info. But it is not a case of how can we help you get exactly what you want. Contracts are there for a reason. To hold both parties to account or to their responsibilities. Like I said, I felt Jake needing maybe a little bit of empathy and advice on the situation you might not have had previously. I have experienced a lot as a manager and I experienced not a lot but a few times as a player. I just wanted to sort of... So he went home and if anyone asked what was the manager thing he knew exactly how to answer it because I told him exactly how I thought. I think it is important to have that honesty and respect but sometimes two different parties want two different things and then you have to find a sort of happy medium but ultimately my responsibility is to do the best for Bradford City but I also take into account my responsibility to each individual player and how I can help them. Because I guess it will extend me on the individuals where it will get round that this is a manager and be straight with you or this is a manager who won't so it will have an impact once. My reference point is my own career so I would rather be told a hard truth than a soft lie to be honest at least you know where you stand and I know the times that happened to me in my career where I didn't particularly like the conversation but at least I went well, I know where I stand now and as I got older actually that's the best way to go about it you don't want to... That was good but you don't play for another six months it's a lot of rubbish then wouldn't it? So for me I would try to marry up doing the best for Bradford City win as many games as possible do that but also enhance the players' careers understand that I've been there as a player and I understand it but my response to it is to Bradford City so I think I'm here for you I'm not I'm here for Bradford but I don't want to just be on one line and I do want my players to trust me if they can because it's a difficult sport there's a lot of noise, a lot of messages you get some different types of people and I've been there so I try to be somebody where if they want a bit of playing truth they can get it from me that's just helps me sleep at night to be fair I'll need my kit I mean it was very stable here post-Nox County for the back in terms of the group of players you were working with and all that sort of thing it's January just a month away so what's in these presses all month about being adaptable is that like the key thing for manager this time of year? Yeah I've only learnt that over experience when you go in December you're going to do this, you're going to do that, do this and that's what we look like and then you get to February and go well that didn't happen and this didn't happen and then that came from nowhere so over the years I've learnt how to be ready try and have our targets, our ideas about what we want to get out of the window and like I say ultimately it's alright when we come out of it better than we went into it that's the ultimate aim but it's the same in life football you don't know what can happen tomorrow so you've got to be ready to adapt and not lose your composure not lose your senses and just go okay how can we make the best of this scenario for our club and it's helped me over the last few years manage these situations and maybe my discussion with Jake has come from my experience I might not have had that discussion 7-8 years ago with a player I might have been a bit more abrupt but I just wanted to see it from his perspective as well and there was a part of it, it wasn't me just talking to him I wanted to get his thoughts on how he felt the whole scenario was going as well and what he ultimately wanted so that's it's just a grown up way of doing things to be nice So you're almost planning too much when you start seeing what you've been planning that's it I think you think everything's in your control and you can control every scenario an outcome and ultimately you can't influence it you can try and manage it to the best way possible ultimately you probably can't control absolutely everything so just having that mindset you can influence it you can come out for the best outcome but it might not go that way so that's it's the same as anything in life which if you've got anything about it you should learn from it and try and act better in the future so we'll see what the next what day you are 18th, 19th or something 10 days spring it's more exciting for other people than me to be honest but my focus is on trying to win games as well as that I won't ask you about Tariq because obviously you were managing him this time just in general with your players they have to be careful about not too soon or in the case of Rayon not getting stuck somewhere where they're not playing enough football do they have to be very picky about football's there's no guarantees there's no guarantees so if you're going to ask a player don't move from lead 2 to the championship why would you give that advice you know what I mean because ultimately players like myself you know the odds of making it as a player they're very mind you but you back yourself but I think I can do it you have to have that belief in yourself in that confidence so you can't go turn down a club I probably won't play there I don't think that should enter your mindset there's a balance between young players going to a massive jump where you go out you're going to take a step backwards because you might not go first in football I think that is coming more apparent with players young players and sometimes and listen this is me you make a decision because you feel it's right at the right time it's only high inside your eagle you might have made a mistake or something like this but you know it's if you don't go for it then you're never going to go anywhere are you if you don't back yourself and go for something that you feel is positive at the time so Tyreek at the time made a move that he thought was the best thing for him and ultimately that might be the case going forward you just don't know what's around the future in the future but right here right now he thought the best thing was coming back to Bradford to get his career back on track to actually play the games but he also understands that he's got a competition here it's not a case of just walking into a team and there's a good squad here good players but I think that good players thrive on that competition environment and that's why we try to create it because I think the best players thrive in those scenarios to be honest