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Michael Skubala press conference | Southampton vs Bristol City · Bristol City

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_02: Well Michael first things first just squad wise anything picked up any injuries or same as uh as as Burnley?
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_01: Uh no, we're good at the moment, yeah, um healthy.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, a couple of things but nothing um that is leaving anybody out that we know of, but obviously training before we get to Southampton is still to go.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_01: So um we're in a good place.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_02: Which is it any time a a coach can sit there and sort of say things like that, it's you know at some point it's gonna go the other way, but it it's nice while it lasts.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_01: Well fingers crossed, no.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_01: Uh no, but yeah, you're right.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we we know we need everybody.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we get into the you know the darker nights, the long away trips, but the minute we're we're healthy, obviously Luke Menaldi's still on his recovery and on the way back, and he's doing great.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: Um and sometimes training with the squad, sometimes not.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_01: So he's on the mend uh fingers crossed for him, but yeah, we won't see him for a bit of time, but everybody else is where they were at last week.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_02: And uh sort of going into this little run of games, you had three tough looking away games, and yes, you've you've only had two of the three, but you you must be pretty happy with how that's gone so far.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, amazing.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh really happy.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um, obviously, away games are always tough on the road.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we've got another tough one on Saturday, and another tough week, really, before the international break, you know, three games in six days with the Friday night game making it extra tough.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I know it sounds crazy, but losing a day's rest or a day on opposition is really difficult, but that's that's the nature of the game.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's you know, that's football and we have to deal with it.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_02: And from what you've done so far, and it is only a small sample size, but the fact that you've got so many people contributing, I think is it three goals have been scored by substitutes so far this season, which in a a five-game run is is pretty good.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_02: That's for especially for a new group, that's got to be so good for you to say, look, we mean it when we're talking about 16, 18, 20 players, we're gonna need you all.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think it just shows the evidence for it, doesn't it?
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_01: You can say it, but you need evidence for it.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_01: And I think the the last three games, like you say, gives the lads the evidence that we're gonna need everybody.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_01: It is a squad game, it's no longer just 11 players on the pitch that can get you through championship games and back to back and Saturday Tuesdays.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_01: You have to rotate, you have to get keep the team fresh as possible, and but also you have to have a bench that can contribute, and again, you know, that's why we were aggressive in the window to have that depth of squad, and I feel like we've got that.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_02: Because when you've got that depth of squad, the I guess the the flip side to that is if players are not involved or feel that they're a million miles away from the team, that that can cause problems.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_02: But it certainly doesn't seem that way at the moment because most players are getting you know on that pitch fairly regularly.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think it's always a challenge.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: Players want to play football, right?
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_01: So I think it's always a challenge when players aren't in the squad or or or in the or getting as much minutes as they want, but the collective is the most important thing for me.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_01: But I have to obviously speak to players all the time if they're not quite involved at the level they want to be involved.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but they've all trained great and they're all ready, and they know and they're mature enough to know that a season is a long time, and we're gonna need everybody, and they know that, and and they believe in that as well.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_01: So when they're called upon, the best thing is for them to be ready when they're needed, um, and that's why we have a really hard training group and they're they're working hard every day to try and get a shirt, and it's competitive, but it's uh it's what I call a healthy competition.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_02: And and that collective endeavour, that sort of being a team, it is it seems that that's the way you you've tried to sort of set it out, and actually the fact that it's different players stepping up week in, week out must just help get that point over again.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: I've never seen a successful team that hasn't got that, you know.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: So I think if you flip it and say if you don't have that, you can't be successful.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_01: So whenever I've worked with successful teams or seen successful teams work, you have to be you know in it together, you have to be fully committed to the cause, you have to know what you're trying to achieve and working, you know, in the goals, you're working together to achieve the same goals.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_01: That's for me is the the unit, the team that's really important.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_01: So the collective is is so important that everybody's on the same page in this group so far with the new sign-ins, with the the older heads in the group, you know, they're they're getting on really well, but they're fighting for shirts, and they know the cause is to try and win football matches.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_02: And you talked about that sort of consistency, and and and every coach manager wants that because that's what gets you your success at the end of it all, and certainly going forward, looking at the numbers, whether it's goals or chances, all those kind of things, you know, it's a small block again, but that has been consistently threatening all the way through.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think it's so important that everything comes from a solid base, and you know, we're working really hard on our defensive structure to be solid, and but we feel like we can cause threats as well.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, I thought we were great in transition at Burnley, and I think in moments we look really excited, but it's so early into the season we've still got loads and loads to develop and loads and loads to improve on.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um, when you look at and you dig deep, we've got so much that we can develop, and that's quite what I think is quite exciting about the group.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we're still a new group, we're still gelling.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um, some new players that you know uh learn in the championship if you like.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_01: You only have to look at Lee Sav, who's less than a half, 21-year-old that's now played five games in the championship or four games in the championship, wherever it is.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_01: He's still learning, and we have we forget that because you see him week out at the minute getting into the team, um, but he's still learning his trade, and that's where it's really important that myself, Ian Birchnell, Neil Bamfield, you know, Alex Ball are still helping Pat with the coaching staff.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_01: You have to keep developing those players away from the games to keep improving them.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um but we've got a really healthy group that wants to learn and get better, and I think that's what's good about the group.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_01: We've got some new additions that are young that want to improve, and we've got some a few older heads in there, and a few in the leadership team that can help him with that in terms of you know Jed, Elijah Debeo, you know, Nighty now, Joe Williams coming back.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_01: So it's a really good mix of you know, new and old, but not old as in age, but you know, as in caps.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_02: And and knowing what the championship is, because you know, if you're Lee Saf or Gibson or any of the players who haven't played, even the ones who like Dom, who's played a little bit, or um Tolly coming up from League One, it is they'll be used to the brutal like Saturday, Tuesday of it all, but it is tough.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_02: And and if you don't have a Jed Wallace in there who knows exactly what is to expect, some of those youngsters can can find that more difficult.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for cool, for sure.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: They they you know it's I think it's something like the fifth best league in the world now, you know.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_01: So very strong level.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um wherever they come from, it's a step up, whether it's League One, which is something like 20th, 24th best league in the world, or if they've come from foreign leagues, which is not as strong, it's going to be a step up, and we've seen some good things, but we know we need to keep developers as well.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: That's as them as individuals, that's the units on the pitch, but also the 11 and the collective and also the squad.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_02: So Saturday, another tough test against a team that um that did very well last year and have had a solid start.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_02: What are you expecting from Southampton?
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: Great side.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I don't think you probably get any tougher tests away from home.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh they're very solid at home.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think they've lost in the league since maybe January against Hall last season.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so they've been a very good side, like to dominate the ball.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um, watched them in the week where they you know were very good against Swansea, who are also up there.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, we've got to go away and and be really competitive, uh, be really hard to beat.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but obviously they're a good team that you know we will respect, but we don't fear anybody.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, it's it's it's still the green stuff and two goals with one ball and leather blokes running around.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_01: So we have to go and be competitive in our way.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but for sure it's going to be a really tough game.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_02: You've never been there as as Bristol City boss, and and a lot of the players won't necessarily have played there before, but City's record at Southampton is pretty decent.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_02: Do you ever read anything into that?
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_02: Because there are definitely clubs that that teams do well against and and maybe not so well.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, more so, not so the the results, but more so watching the performances.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_01: I watched the two draw last season, of course.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: So I watched that before I came in.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: I also watched that um back when I thought I thought the team did very well there last season.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: It was a really tough game.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um they're a good team, they were obviously pushing for promotion.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: And if you look at their results recently, they're probably you know second or top of the league before last night's um you know, from last night's results because of their you know points deduction have started very strong as well.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_01: So, but you can read into you know some of the performances that the lads who are still here put in last season did very well.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but you know, it's like every game in the championship, it's gonna be a hard away game that we have to be absolutely on it to get something out of.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you very much.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: Hi, Michael.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: You touched on Luke there, he's obviously in the squad list the FL put out this week.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_00: How is his sort of recovery going?
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: Is it still kind of on track?
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's good, it's he's going well, he's integrating more and more into training.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_01: We have to be patient, we have to take our time because we know that's such a big injury and uh the long time he's been out.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but he's training very well.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_01: Some days he's in with us, some days he's still in with the the medical and physical team.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but so far so good.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but he's still quite a bit of time off.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: Imagine there's no often when we speak to managers, they don't want to put a particular time frame on it.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_00: Is it I imagine there's not that sort of point where you think that's when he's gonna be around, or is there an exact sort of well he's not started playing minutes for any 21s or any friendlies yet, so we're we're a bit of time off that.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_01: When he starts getting into those, probably in you know a few weeks' time, hopefully, or a month's time, hopefully, then we'll probably have more of an indication of how long it'll be before he's back in selection for the first team.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_01: So we're yeah, we're still quite a bit off.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_01: But I've said it all along if we see him before Christmas, I'll be very, very happy.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_01: If it's after Christmas, then we'll see as well.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_00: In terms of Brian as well, obviously you mentioned that he's going to take a little bit of time to get up to speed.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_00: Is he in contention this weekend or still kind of building up?
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, we'll see.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's probably still a little bit early for Brian, but he's he's into full training now.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_01: Um, he's in with the group, which is good.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_01: He's obviously missed a lot of football and not really had a preseason, a proper pre-season.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_01: So again, he's been bought in to strengthen that unit of midfielders, very good footballer.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but if we push him too early, we could break him because he's not had the conditioning he needs to play Saturday, Tuesday, or to keep going.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I think he's probably a bit more time, but he's definitely getting up to speed quickly.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: I know when we've spoken to you about injuries and kind of rotating the squad, you've mentioned that you've been maybe a bit fortunate that you've had that big group, basically the entirety of the group, available so far.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: Is that just good fortune at this stage, or do you feel is there something in particular you and your coaching staff have done to make sure there's as many players fit as possible?
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I wouldn't call it fortunate.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: I think you can look at it that way, but I think the medical team, um, Paul Tanner's team have worked very hard to get people fit, and you know, Cavs's team is working really hard with the coaching team to make sure that we feel that the training is is robust and at the level that we want it to be.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't see it as a fortunate thing.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_01: I see it as a collective, multidisciplinary team working operation that is important.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, things happen and people get injured, and that's football, and that's why we want the depth of the squad.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_01: But at the minute, you know, we work really hard to make sure that we manage players and and get them at the right levels to hopefully keep that abey as long as possible.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: Imagine to a degree that's the advantage of having as many of the new signings in as early as you do in pre-season, you can get them up to your fitness rather than another club's fitness potentially.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_01: And and that's like the the the like the comment, you know, the discussion with Brian, you know, he hasn't been in with us for pre-season, he doesn't know how we train, how we want to be, how we want to play, so that can be a change for him, so that's why you have to, you know, you want it to go quick, but sometimes it takes a little bit longer to build them and their robustness.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, again, you know, fingers crossed, we've we're healthy at the moment.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, the the depth actually adds to that because different players can carry different loads at different points of the week or the season.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, we're we're managing things well at the moment, but again, you know, it's the championship and things happen.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: What have you sort of made of the division so far?
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: Because I think you've only got to look at the tables and know that it's as usual, sort of like chaotic results, everyone beating everyone.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: What have you kind of made of it so far?
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_01: Well, football is a low-scoring, random game.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_01: I think we have to, you know, we have to really you know understand that and things can happen.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, I've been to a few games this week and watched them live and think random things that happen, you know, or sending off happens to us in the first game, it's it's it's football.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: But if you can find a consistent level of performance over the course of 46 rather than the individual games, that's the challenge I think for all managers.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um but it's an exciting division, it's a really exciting division.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_01: I think when you look at the teams this season, it's very strong.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: I think when you look at the whole division, it's a really strong division with with the teams that have come down and the teams that have come up.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um so every game is super competitive, and you have to be on it and you have to be ready because if not you can get you can get hurt, and that's our challenge.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to ask you, I think it's his birthday today about Seb Naylor.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: He's obviously popped off a few goals to the end of the 21s and impressed so far.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: Where where's he kind of at in his development at the moment?
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, he came in in January and was around the first team a fair bit.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_00: Just where is he at the moment?
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he's he's he's training with the 21s, um, and he's playing more with them at the moment because you know I feel like we've got lots of defensive uh defensive cover.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um Pringy's obviously back, and Rio's come in and George Tanner's there, and we you know, so we've got lots of cover there, so that's good.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_01: So his game time at the minute is coming with the 21s again because of the the depth of the squad, you know.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_01: When you've got such a strong depth, you know, him as a young man, but also you know, Elijah, Danizendu, you know, they've been training with us really well, um, but they've not we've not managed to seed him yet because you know, even some senior players are uh left out of the squad at the moment.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_00: I imagine it's a good thing to have as well when you've got a 21s group who, judging by the results and the performance of the competitive is well, they're playing at a level where it doesn't matter, there's points on the board and it's a good experience for them anyway.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: I think always, you know, in my experience of the development football, it's really important that the the really young ones enjoy it and they get on the board and they want to play as the foundation ages.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: Then at the youth age, it's about educating them and teaching them the game, and then when they get older into the professional age of contracts and 21s, it has to be a finding ways to win.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: So it's it's it's really important that they develop, but it's so important that that 21's group wins football matches as well because there's no doubt about it.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: When you come into senior football and senior dressing rooms, the players want to win, and of course, their challenge isn't just about developing and just about winning, their challenge is to get into the first team and take a first team shirt if you like.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: I was listening to an interview with Jed last night, I think it's something you guys touched on in the fans forum about perhaps Bristol City being quite a nice place for teams to come before and now being maybe not as nice a team to face.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: Can you just talk us through like sort of what that looks like, making it that little bit harder?
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure you don't want to give up the secret sort of thing, but making it a bit of a harder opposition for teams.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um what you mean as a football team?
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I guess as a club, as an opposition, uh Ashton Gate is a place to come.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_00: What does that kind of look like?
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um I think it's um amazing city, amazing stadium.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and we're saying like one of the competitive edges you can get is it would be a really tough place to for opposition to come and play.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_01: We want our home fans to enjoy the the team, enjoy the celebrations, but we want it as a tough place to go.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, you've lived it, you've been on the road, um, where it's some really hard places to play uh football.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um we're not giving the secrets away of what we're doing behind the scenes, um, but that's where we need the support, and the fans have been absolutely sensational so far this season, and we want to make a hard place for anybody to come.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: And you you know that the the the players have got the back, and I think if you see a group of young men that work hard for the shirt and for the badge, um you can get behind it no matter what, whether it's good or bad.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I think what you see with this team at the minute is they're they're willing to run and they're willing to hard work hard and are really competitive.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, long live, you know, as being putting a proud team on the pitch because I think that most of all that's what what fans want to see.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: You mentioned them in an answer earlier, Neil Bamfield and Ian Burchner.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think we've actually asked you about them since they've been appointed and kind of what they've brought to the group and what they've what they've been like to work with so far.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: Uh excellent, yeah, they're excellent coaches in their own rights.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: You know, um Alex is in there as well, who helps massively with the group and the transition with the 21s, and he's been at the club a long time, which is which is fantastic.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: Ian, you know, he's been a manager himself, but a young tactician that is worked in Europe, worked in the Premier League, um, which is excellent.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, Neil Bamfield, they complement each other very well.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: Neil's you know worked under Arson Wenger for 300 games, and you know, lots of grey hair around if you like younger coaches in there.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: So there's a real nice blend around the coaching staff, but ultimately they love working with players and they love developing players, and I think anybody that works in my staff needs to needs to do that because I believe that you know our job is to help the players to perform on the pitch and giving them the best chance to succeed.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: And I think what you've got is a really strong, not just in the technical staff, but also the MDT staff, a really strong group of people around the staff, uh around the players, sorry, who are the staff that really want this group to be successful.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_01: I think when you have that, it's not just about the players, it's about the staff.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and when you're all in together, I think everybody knows we're we're fighting for the same cause.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: That's that similar blend to when you're building a playing squad as well.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: I guess you want everyone with different sort of skills, different experience as well.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_01: Well I'm not a doctor, so I can't uh I can't say what the doctor down with Joker, but you know, um yeah, and that's the importance of the multidisciplinary team.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_01: We have a we have great staff here, you know, even down to the the kitchen staff who are unbelievable with the players and how they support the diet of the players, even down to you know, the the massage therapists that work really hard till 11 o'clock at night to get the players really prepared.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we we work really hard behind the scenes to to try and give the players not everything they want, because I don't think that works like that, but everything they need to perform.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and yeah, it is what you would expect from a top-level football club that we've put in place.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, James has obviously started that process before I came here, and then we just add things as we go to try and make sure that we give the lads every chance to perform.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: And if we can do that more time than often, I think we're we're on the right um on the right lines.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: In terms of you and joining the club, I think you asked in like the first press conference if you felt settled, I guess.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: Those sort of experiences on the road at Preston when you can engage with the fans and at Ashton Gate.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: Do you I guess do you feel like right at the heart of that club now?
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: I know it's early days, but it feels like the fans have the basketball game at Piston.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: But um it feels like the fans have really taken to you and got behind both you and your players.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, it's great.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I I think the fans know that um well the players know, the fans know that the hours that I'll put in for them.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's uh it's an amazing club.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_01: I love the club already.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: The city's amazing, um, and we just want to bring success to this place.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, it will take time, of course.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we're talking about a three-year project, but when you can get some little wins and three points on the road, um, like you say, Burnley and Preston were for different reasons, both good performances, um, and that's what we want to keep doing.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: But it's you know, there's a there's another team and another 20 odd teams trying to do the same, so it's a really competitive world to live in.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, that's the the most important thing is that you know everybody's heart and head, which is important, is in you know, supporting Bristol City to drive it forward as much as we can.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: And to have another 3,000 fans making the trip on on Saturday, it it that can have such an impact, I imagine.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, amazing, yeah, it's amazing.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, it's not easy for fans to travel as much, especially as much as we've been on the road this this week, two weeks, no how long it is now.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_01: Just yeah, um, and then traveling down to Southampton again, another couple of hours trip.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: It feels like everybody everywhere is quite far from Bristol to me.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but it's um it's so amazing that the fans can travel and support the team.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_01: And again, we just want to put a performance in that that the fans are proud of.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: Best of luck Saturday.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.