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00:00Bad news with Mads is hamstring or could he play a part in the last two games?
00:04No, Mads will be ham.
00:06Keen?
00:07Keen, we'll see, yeah, we'll see.
00:10Just in terms of the middle of the pitch, those absences, is it off the ball you've really missed?
00:15100%, yeah.
00:15The energy, could you dissociate that with the best performances this season?
00:18Yeah, not energy, people say energy, but the running stats log, they say, you know, like,
00:23that defensive mindset maybe, or you know, to see the game out.
00:25I think the Luton game's a fantastic example, and we did it in so many games.
00:30And then the last home game, I walked out, I actually walked out with Ali McCann, Potsy,
00:34Ledo, you know, and then we get into the pot where we're seeing the game out and I'm thinking
00:40of bringing young Theo on to replace Steffi, you know, massive difference.
00:45That's not a slight on Theo, he's doing great, but we'd be losing a lot of what Steffi can
00:50bring then and bringing a young lad on who's not yet a pro to try and help us see a game
00:56out. And that's a big difference, you know. And that's another reason why I'm saying
01:01about the players. We're not going to have 11 players here who are good enough to help
01:06us be at the top of this league or get out of this. We're always going to have to have
01:09the group, the group who have to help and fight each other. And it's one thing we were doing
01:12really well, which was the 11 that were on the pitch at any one time. I got the subs at
01:17half-time, subs at 60, 70, 90, see the game out. We're all adding there a little bit and
01:24making us a good 11.
01:25I've spirits needed lifting this week because, you know, two defeats in four days, it can
01:29take its toll, can't it? The manner of them as well.
01:32The manner of them, yeah. And it's like I said, because I don't speak about the refs
01:38and I'm making a big thing about today because I want to explain a lot, because I don't want
01:42an excuse, get on with it, win the next game. But like I said, imagine, you know, the questions,
01:48it's a different narrative, different thing we're speaking about. Liam Lindsay did nothing wrong.
01:52Yeah, people saying, you know, cost us that game against Stoke and things. Do you get what I mean?
01:56Yeah. So it's wrong, it's wrong that the players, Mance didn't give a penalty away at the weekend,
02:03yet he got one given against him, he gets injured later on, he gets booked for telling the referee
02:08that he's down injured, you know. So all these little bits and pieces add up, so there's no way
02:13that people, I'm going to allow people to say that the lads aren't, what was it, desire, I can't
02:19remember the word, yeah, the fact that it's there. We haven't got the support, we haven't got the
02:22squad, we'll always do it together, it can't just be a lever, definitely. Not that we expect the help
02:28from elsewhere, but throughout this season, you know, we've been really, really on the wrong end of
02:35shocking decisions that have cost us some horrendous amount of points.
02:38Was the £5 club led or did you have any say in that?
02:43Peter, Peter and Craig, yeah, yeah. This is something that's been discussed a lot of times and
02:48I think it's a time, it's perfect. Like I say, I feel for, I'm with the players, so I see the
02:56players affected when something out of their control means that their efforts are not rewarded and then
03:03questioned. Does that make, and I'm not having a go at you, it's just, you get to understand what I'm
03:06saying? It's tough, I've been in a dressing room and know what that means, you know. What Mark
03:10I've done, I've been in defending the ball and he's just given a penalty against because someone's
03:14died late, but the narrative changes. If those things would just stand, like I said, just not
03:21given, just the game would have played out perfectly. None of those decisions, we're talking about
03:26different things again here now. So I can't have, I can protect the players a little bit and say that,
03:32but the fans suffer from this as well. Do you know what I mean? The fans suffer, Peter suffers,
03:36Craig suffers, everyone at the club suffers from these moments, but myself, the players,
03:42we're the ones who can do something about it and that's all we have to focus on. We step up
03:46and take care of business and then, yeah, we don't have to talk about them anymore.