00:00How are you doing? I'm fine. Good, good, good, thank you.
00:04My goodness, those lights are bright, aren't they?
00:06They're all bright, yeah.
00:12What's going on, Geoff?
00:13Welcome to the local scout.
00:16David, a good point. It's a tough place to come.
00:20It must be the place of the resilience that you play a show.
00:25Yeah, something's just fallen over there, I'm sorry.
00:29Yeah, I would say I'm pleased I get the point.
00:32I was disappointed with the second half performance.
00:34I was pleased with the first half,
00:36and I don't think we deserved really to be 1-0 down at half-time,
00:38but I thought we had done well enough.
00:40But we missed big opportunities to make a better chance
00:45or score a chance when we had it in the first half.
00:47I was hugely frustrated.
00:48I think the players were frustrated by it as well.
00:52Second half, I just don't know if midweek kicked in.
00:56You know, played Wednesday, had to travel down,
00:59all the things that come from it.
01:00I don't want to make excuses for maybe how we played in the second half,
01:03but I think it would be wrong not to highlight it.
01:06Could have been a possibility of that.
01:08And also, look, I watched Bournemouth against Man City last week,
01:11and Bournemouth played really well at Man City.
01:13You know, really unlucky not to win the game,
01:15never mind draw it and in the end lose.
01:17So it was never going to be an easy game here today.
01:20The first half of this play felt particularly good,
01:22given some of the noise coming into the game.
01:24Just what's your understanding of that?
01:26Perhaps now is wrong situation.
01:29Well, I know that there's been an offer.
01:33So apart from that,
01:34I don't really think there's much else I've got to say about it.
01:36Do you think it should be accepted?
01:38Could you contemplate it?
01:39Well, it's not really a question.
01:41For just now, it'll be a club decision.
01:43If you were to lose first-team players between now and the end of the window,
01:48how much harder would that make you a job?
01:51We have to try and, I mean, without losing MD,
01:55which we obviously don't want to do,
01:58we still need to add players to what we've got.
02:01Are you aware of any?
02:02I've been saying it for quite a while,
02:05and I've been alluding to it,
02:07that we need to add.
02:08I think we've got some young, promising players,
02:11and we've got some things which are looking quite good.
02:15But even today, Hayden having his ankle
02:19just didn't want to risk him too soon.
02:21Jimmy, we've had to bring back quicker than we want with a hernia.
02:24And I think it showed today in Jimmy a little bit.
02:28So we're not that strong at the moment squad-wise.
02:33Are you aware of any incovens being close?
02:36No, not yet.
02:37This is our last chance to speak to you before the deadline.
02:40Do you have any messages for the support?
02:41So you could hear what they were saying,
02:43loud and clear from Moses' game,
02:44and also to the board as well,
02:46given the situation you find yourself in?
02:47Yeah.
02:48Well, if I'd say something to them,
02:50they'd say their managers are never torn in.
03:04I don't really want to talk too much about it,
03:06to be honest,
03:07but I'll try and answer your question a little bit
03:09because I'm not going to give you a page
03:10full of Harrison Armstrong stuff.
03:13I thought Harrison played really well today,
03:15done a lot of good work,
03:17ran out of legs a little bit later in the game.
03:19But it's amazing the effort he puts in
03:21and I thought he was probably more of an influence
03:24in the first half than he was in the second half.
03:27What did you make of Merlin Roll's performance?
03:29Merlin Roll, I thought, was a bit more mixed today.
03:32I thought he played,
03:33I think he's still showing up really well.
03:36I think he's still getting used to probably what's required.
03:40You know, he had to play Wednesday nights,
03:41he had to play Saturday today.
03:43I thought he was one of the players
03:44who showed that a little bit more fatigue
03:46than maybe some of the others.
03:49Are you confident to get another right-back in to help him?
03:53Don't know.
03:54Don't know.
03:56Don't know.
03:57Tarkovsky's sequel,
03:58I mean, the ball came to him,
03:59he put it away.
04:00Yeah.
04:01He was a nice striker, didn't he?
04:02Yeah.
04:03I was just thinking it was a bit like
04:04his last goal at Goodison,
04:06except it was more of a volley.
04:08It was that sort of angle in the pitch.
04:11We've been trying to score some goals,
04:13some corner kicks.
04:14I don't think we've been doing particularly well at it,
04:16but today we got one in the last minute.
04:19So, pleased about that.
04:22And obviously pleased in the end
04:24to take the point
04:25because it was a,
04:27you know,
04:27we've got a pretty,
04:28we've had a pretty good record away from home
04:30and today to get a point might have been as,
04:32I'm not saying we didn't deserve it,
04:34I think we did.
04:35But we had some amazing blocking,
04:37a couple of great saves,
04:40which,
04:40you know,
04:41the game could have gone against us at that moment,
04:43but they kept at it,
04:44the boys,
04:44and showed great resilience.
04:46You kept at it
04:47because I don't think the club
04:48got a good record
04:48against Bournemouth
04:49in recent times,
04:50so you've got that point in.
04:52Yeah.
04:53Yeah,
04:53I've always liked coming here.
04:54I've got my first win here
04:56and I always think about it.
04:57So,
04:57when I was a manager
04:59at Preston.
05:00So,
05:01yeah,
05:01it was here.
05:02I think I won in the,
05:04the Leyland Freight Rover
05:05Daft Cup
05:06or something like that
05:07before it,
05:08but,
05:09but I've got to say
05:10I think my first league win
05:11was here.
05:12and I always remember it well.
05:15Just take one more from there,
05:16please.
05:17David,
05:18just on the club decision
05:19around Harrison Armstrong,
05:21do you think
05:22the fans,
05:23the views that they made
05:25to clear today
05:25about the situation
05:26should be considered
05:28when that decision comes out?
05:29I think you always have to consider
05:31supporters.
05:31Supporters aren't always wrong,
05:33but then there's also times
05:35where
05:35I've really fortunately
05:37had people at clubs
05:38who are really powerful
05:40and make
05:42difficult decisions.
05:43I could,
05:44I'd bring into that
05:45Brian Gray
05:46who was pressing
05:47North End
05:47and Sir Philip Carter
05:49who was at Everton
05:51when I first came in.
05:52Not always
05:53decisions are popular
05:54and sometimes
05:56they have to do it
05:56for different reasons.
05:57so
06:01it's like
06:01managers have to make
06:02decisions on players
06:03sometimes
06:04and it feels like
06:04huge decisions
06:05but there's sometimes
06:07bigger decisions
06:07to be made
06:08and the club will,
06:10I'm sure,
06:10make what they think
06:11is the right one.
06:12OK,
06:12now that's it
06:13now,
06:13that's the last one.
06:16Cheers.
06:17Cheers.
