00:00I know you spoke last week about visiting the new stadium.
00:02Do you have to come up with a programme now?
00:04Would there be more training there through pre-season than you would do normally,
00:07just to get people used to that environment?
00:09Absolutely, Vinny.
00:10Actually, my plan was that we would go to the stadium
00:12and maybe two or three training sessions as well,
00:15but I've gone and dug the pitch up.
00:18So I think we've just grown it.
00:19We've gone and dug the pitch up there,
00:20so it looks as if I'm not going to get down to the new stadium at all at the moment,
00:23which I'm pretty disappointed in because that was my plan, hopefully, to do it.
00:29But I wasn't going to take the team down there until I really thought that we were safe
00:33and it was rightly going to be our home for a Premier League season.
00:38That's a big consideration, I suppose,
00:40getting the lads used to that environment when it comes to pre-season.
00:43Absolutely.
00:44I do think that the modern player nowadays does play.
00:48We've been in Europe for the last few years.
00:49A lot of them are international players.
00:50They play at stadiums all over.
00:52It shouldn't be something which is completely strange to them,
00:55going to a new stadium.
00:55But the point is to turn it into your home and feel comfortable
00:59and know your surroundings, I think, is really important.
01:03So I would have liked to have had a couple of training sessions on it,
01:05but it looks like that's been kiboshed.
01:07OK, thanks.
01:07All right.
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