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" It has been a little bit frustrating, the weather has been a problem but it is something that we have to deal with. It is something that sometimes happen and sometimes doesn't, and this season we have been hit hard haven't we. We have had a good run of cold snap weather, but we get around it and we keep chirping.
" We find somewhere to train and we enjoy what we are doing so we will deal with it. I suppose that everybody else will be in the same boat, down in the Midlands where Walsall are they have had as many problems. Although they did get a game in on Saturday at Hartlepool, which we attended and we will take some work out of that.
" We need to go into the game with a good tempo and hopefully the rest will have done us good. The players won't want a rest though, they don't want a break, nobody likes sitting around doing nothing on a Saturday afternoon. We are all out watching games but it is not the same as being involved in one.
" It has affected us but everybody else has been affected and I don't make excuses, I don't do that. We have trained, we trained on Friday, the lads were fantastic, we trained for two and a quarter hours on Friday, we couldn't get them off the training field I think, they were absolutely fantastic.
" We think that we have done enough work, sometimes at this stage of the season a rest could be classed as as good as training. They should come back in this morning really full of energy and ready to play, I am sure that they are and let's hope that the preparation has not been affected. "
" It is getting tight and we know that we need a run of results now. A win tonight would settle everything down, everybody is getting a little bit anxious and I think that really, two or three good results and it is soon forgotten and we start looking the other way.
" You have to do that though and Walsall are a strong side, they will come with a good organisation and they are a team that we will have to be patient against and try to break them down. We are going to get after them though and try to put them on the back-foot and force that result, which makes things look a whole lot better.
" They are organised, they are tough at the back and they have got two lively strikers, the rest of it is much as you would expect a League One side to be. They will be tough to beat, they will have a gameplan, I don't want to tell you that because I am going to tell my players how I think that we should get round that.
" It will be a tough game though, new manager, new enthusiastic coaching staff. I know Chris (Hutchings) really well and hopefully we can do enough on our own ground to put them to the sword and get the result that we are after at the moment.
" We have got one like Dean Windass that we think could go all the way and probably play for England, so if (Fabio) Capello is looking then just look at Danny Graham in training. He puts those gloves on and he does actually think that he is the best goalkeeper in the Football League.
" He is outstanding, I am not joking, he is a top keeper so he would go in goal if ever a situation happened where we would need one then he would go in and I would be quite confident. I am not so sure where his true commitment is, but he asked me what sort of money he would get for clean sheets. "