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Recovering from a bad result...

As soon as we lose a game the doom cloud starts and we've got to make amends for that, but that happens every season. That's true for every football club: if they lose a game, they're always trying to make it up on the next one. There's no difference with this football club. If we lose a game, of course we're trying to make ground up on the next one and so on and so on. So the disappointment, as soon as you lose a game or draw a game, you're trying to recover from that on the next one.

Second chances...

The players are not going to be at their best in every game - it would be fantastic if they were. But when they have a poor game, the good thing in football is you've always got a chance to correct it. At the moment we're in the pack - there's a lot of clubs there - and as long as we're in that pack it's always going to be difficult, but that's why we work so hard to keep it going.

Shooting for the goal...

You've got to set targets within the month, or so many games. If you're going to get out of this division then you've got to keep reaching those targets. I've been in a football club where I was off the pace a bit, but come the end of the season I still got promoted.

As long as by the time we get to Christmas we're within the pack- we've got 5 games over that period in a short space of time and you've got to make sure you pick up as many points as you can because once you're into the new year, that's when you really start to crank up the machine and really start pushing if you're trying to get out of the division.

If you're at the bottom, you crank it up to try and save yourselves. We're no different to anybody else. I've got targets, I've got goals in mind, and sometimes you'll reach them and other times you're trying to catch up to get to them.

There's no magic formula...

There's a lot written about what clubs do - their new methods and everything else. We do the same here, we just don't talk much about it, we just get on with the job. When you're a successful football club, everyone wants to know what the success is. If we did everything that Chelsea do - every day match it - they would still be better than us. Why? Because they have the better players. We try and do what everyone else does, maybe try and inject something different now and again, but the coaching, the training, the diets, and the way you look after your players, it's mostly all the same.