As it is, there's nothing we can do. It's down to the TV people, the police and whoever else. All you can hope is that the people at the top end of the game start to show more consideration for the supporters. |
Bringing him on a month's loan will help to buy us time while we continue to pursue a long-term striking option. |
Come this stage of the season the result is everything, the performance will come second and it was exactly that today. But the job's to be completed. |
Craig's back in today for training and it'll be a case of seeing how he feels after that. |
Darren took a heavy knock in midweek and he didn't feel he was ready to start. He would have started if had been 100 per cent. He was quite happy to go on the bench and what it does do is keep him reasonably fresh for Tuesday. |
He has great energy and great enthusiasm for the game and is a good quality addition to the squad for the Premier League. |
He is a quality Premier League player and gives us a wealth of experience. Hopefully he can be a part of keeping us in the Premier League. |
He won't play this season. He's just got to look to be ready for the start of pre-season training in the summer - to make sure he's 100 per cent right for that. |
He's back in training but he's had three weeks out now and we'll just have to see how he gets on. |
He's very quick, very strong and has an eye for goal. These are qualities that will add to what we've got. |
I am delighted to get a player of Simon's quality, |
I can understand that. Some players are freezing out there and we have to turn it around quickly because our aim is still to get promoted. |
I don't want to sell Dean, he's a big player for us. The board don't want to sell and the supporters don't want to sell either but there's a lot of factors. We've been looking at players [anyway] and that's with Dean staying at the club. There's a good feel about more than doubling our money but it's all about the game of football and we want points. |
I had a good chat with him and the biggest thing which disappoints me is that he's gone away and the training has been average and low key. That's no help to him in terms of losing fitness. That was noticeable on Sunday. |
I had to rebuild his confidence when he came to us but he's always had belief in his ability. I expect him to carry on scoring as long as he's with us. That's his seventh goal in 12 games since I signed him - and that's a good return at any level. |