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" Everyone has come in smiling and looking forward to it, pre-season is never nice but if you have done a bit in the summer it's not that hard. I'm just trying to concentrate on the football now, just get back to it, get back to football. I think it's important that everybody gets back into it as soon as possible really, everybody comes in with a laugh and a joke because we have missed it but you've got to work hard. We're going to be in every day for the next month, everybody has just got to put their bodies through it and get really focused because we've got some big games.
" The league is definitely stronger than last season, Leeds coming down and things like that, we are going to be playing some teams that have played in the Premiership. Leeds played Derby last year so they are going to be strong sides, I don't think there are going to be many weak sides. So it's going to be tough, it's going to be very tough for us but if we can just take on from what we did last season I don't see why we can't do well again this year.
" For the new boys coming in on the first day you don't know what to expect, you don't know what the lads are like. We had a season together last year obviously and we are all close and all good mates, obviously they are going to come in and they are going to have to fit into that. This morning when we do the running if they are struggling then we'll pull them through and things like that. It's things like that that you've just got to get right. It's difficult in a way to go to a new club but it's not really, it's exciting and I'm sure they are really looking forward to this season.
" At 15, 16 or 17 when you sign for a club you don't think that you are going to be there for the rest of your life until you are 35. I don't think it's probably ever happened, maybe in the olden days but not so much anymore, people change clubs very often and I think that it is in a players make up now to take it and to actually just be ready for it. I've moved a few times now and you get used to it, you come in, it takes two or three days to settle in but after two or three days you bring your character out. "
" I'm probably the loudest one here at the minute but that's fine because it's just what happens. I'm really glad to be back in because obviously there has been so much going on through the summer and stuff. I just wanted to get back and play football again, when you are out of football for a week or two and you are watching it on the television you just want to be back playing again. That's the disappointing thing about it but it comes round so quickly, I think everybody has had a good rest and it looks like a couple of the lads have been working hard.
" Obviously it's nice to see Si (Simon Hackney) back and people like that, obviously he had a bad injury last year. He played quite a bit last year but then not for the second half of the season, I know we brought Jeff (Smith) in but if Jeff has to move into a different position then it's nice to have someone there to cover. We didn't have Si but it's like a new player to have him back, we've got new players coming in although I know players have left.
" I was here for last season and I became quite close with Karl (Hawley), we were good friends, I was good friends with Kevin Gray, Peter Murphy, Derek Holmes and Paul Murray and it is difficult when they leave. I'll still keep in touch with them though, it's not the case that someone leaves and you never see them or speak to them again, I'm sure I will. It's a business for clubs isn't it, players come and players go, we're part of this and we're going out to try to do the best for the club. I think that's all there is to it really to be honest.
" For the last couple of years when I was at Yeovil I didn't play an awful lot, then my only goal was to just try and get in the team and play. Last year I overachieved what I expected to be honest because I never thought that I would come in and play every game or more or less every game. Which was great and amazing for me, I got eight goals last year which is probably four times as many as I got in the past two seasons before that. It was good for me, the gaffer (Neil McDonald) wants to me score more goals and of course I want to score more goals, everybody does.
" It was different fitting into that right-midfield role but I really enjoyed it, I thought it was great. If I get the chance to play upfront then fine but I think that is where the gaffer will be looking to use me. I'm ready for that, and that's what I'm willing to do, anything to fit in and do well for the club. If that is the job playing right-midfield for the team then that is the job, playing right-midfield. As for goals and stuff, I think it's just important to try to get the first couple of weeks out of the way and to try to get in the team, that is the main goal. To be in the first eleven for the first game of the season is the most important thing I think. "