PNE boss Paul Heckingbottom pre-QPR

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00:00I think it's quite a good first game down in London, fans will be on an early train,

00:03it's meant to be lovely weather, you'd probably want to be at home though, I guess, would you?

00:06I'd rather be at home, fans will probably like it, we were the big away following,

00:12like you say, a good trip down to London, nice weather, a couple make a weekend of it,

00:16I don't know, but I'd always rather be at home. But no, I'm looking forward to the game,

00:21just the first game, let's get going, let's get on the road, get some points on the board as quick

00:26as possible, and that's it, yeah, I'm just ready to go, I've had enough of the pre-season games and

00:37yeah, preparing for, yeah, you prepare different for pre-season games, do you know what I mean?

00:45Whether it's the sessions you do before the games, some of the work the lads have been doing has been

00:50fantastic, but then you know you're sending them into a game where you're never going to get a top

00:54performance, you just want top application, and all that's been good, but now it's about us

00:59trying to get results. What's the biggest difference you want to see in terms of

01:03performance and style this year? Points, points and wins, too many games, we didn't win one game

01:10last year where statistically we were second best, and too many games where we were supposedly the

01:16dominant team, we got points, that is the one change, and we don't have to change too many of them

01:22to be a lot further up in the league, add some referees into that who know what they're doing,

01:26things like that, us being more clinical, no, so yeah, but that's how fine the margins there are

01:33in this league, you know, so yeah, it's been really important, I think, to look at what we were doing

01:38well, and we expect that to be exactly the same, and then understand why we came unstuck,

01:45yeah, but it's just the wins, it's three points, that's all we play for, and we had too many games,

01:52like I said, where, and even runs of games where performances were really consistent,

02:00but we might only get one run, one win in that run of games, you know, and then too many runs where

02:04we were talking about, yeah, well, you're unbeaten in six again, but we might have only had one win,

02:08and they could be six really strong performances, and I'd have rather been rubbish three times and won

02:12three games, so it's about wins, it's about making sure that everyone understands what it takes to

02:18to win and get over the line, and that is the be-all and end-all. You were massive on personality

02:25and character last year, how's the group felt in that regard, or will the real stuff be the ultimate test?

02:29The real stuff will be the ultimate test, everyone's come back, like I said, and approached pre-season

02:34really, really well, I expected nothing different, to be fair, of what I know of the players and

02:39how they work, I just want everyone's aims, targets and expectations to be higher, you know what I

02:47mean, and that's not only we speak, I think performances do lead to results, but I think

02:51last season, if any, shows me that sometimes that's just nonsense, it's just propaganda, it is about

02:58getting the wins and the three points, because, yeah, so that is the big change, that is the big change,

03:05that has to be the big change, but we will only get that real feedback now when we start on Saturday.