Below are selected highlights from Wednesday afternoon’s press conference. You can find the full audio above or in your We Are Terriers podcast feed, including Murray Wallace’s contribution.
Results elsewhere last night didn’t go for you, so you have slipped down to seventh place. Does that change anything now that you’re chasing and not being hunted down?
Look, I think I was fully aware when I came in the position the club were in. You’re at the stage of season where teams are catching up their games in hand, so I think when we joined, we could have been 13th if they’d all the game in hand around us.
I thought the start we had gave us a bit of consolidation, but we’ve not done well enough on the road recently, which we’re quite honest about.
So for me, I can’t focus too much attention on that. We have to make sure that we pick up points, and that starts on Saturday. We’ve been unbeaten here since we’ve come in, the lads have been great, the fans have been great here, we’ve made it a tough place to come.
Especially going into the run-in, we’re going to need to continue doing that and beyond it. And then, of course, on the road, we have to address that and make sure that we pick up wins away.
Personnel wise, we haven’t seen Bobby Wales for a while. Is there a reason behind that? Is it tactical? Is it fitness?
Just competition at the minute, and to be fair he’s trained much better this week in terms of he’s shown some really good attributes.
We’ve obviously had Alfie back around it, Hardie coming back, so we’ve got competition in the squad. And to be fair to Bobby, my job is obviously to manage that, to communicate with the lads, to explain why, to support them and have the staff around to support them to do what they need to.
Then it’s about raising your level, and when you look at, say, the performance last week, it gives the opportunity for other people potentially, so that everybody needs to know they’re under pressure to deliver the second the game starts.
Usual question on Bojan Radulovic — is he still on track to come back as scheduled?
Yes. The good news is he’s been out= doing really low-key stuff. He’s still a few weeks away, but he’s definitely heading the right direction.
It was the the challenge of January in terms, when you look at what the team lost, from the goal perspective, so to have someone like him back will be massive, but we want to get him back, and keep him back, of course.
I think you’ve seen with Ryan Hardie that we will take risk. We’re at that stage of the season where we’ve got so much to play for that we’ve thrown him in arguabl a couple of weeks ahead of where he should be, so we’ve had to be a little bit smart with how we’ve managed him.
It will be similar with Bojan: we’ll see how he goes and see what risks we can take. Naturally, I tend to push to get him back as quick as I can, because obviously he was someone who was big part why I joined and someone I was really looking forward to working with, and someone that obviously has had such a strong season at the level. So yeah, we want to get him back as soon as we can.
