Lee Johnson spoke to the press ahead of tomorrow's game against Ipswich Town....
GOOD TIME
“I think it came at a very good time. We needed to recuperate and to heal a few injuries, which has happened."
STEWART
"Ross Stewart is a good example, he was hanging on a bit with a shoulder ligament injury, he’s had an injection and now looks extremely sharp."
HUMBLE
“We have to be humble enough and honest enough that we’ve been disappointed with ourselves and that we’ve let people down. We don’t want to do that and no one sets out to do that, I think there were some mitigating circumstances in terms of accumulative fatigue that’s now cleared and is no excuse."
MAXIMISE TIME
“We still expected our standards to be higher in that time, of course. But you have to maximise that time to get that rest, recuperation, and work hard on the areas we need to improve. Some of that was just about improving our overall health and fitness, which we’ve done.
CONFIDENT
“I’m really confident we’ll go out and put a good show on for our fans. The lads are desperate to do that having had a really good ten days, two weeks. It’s a great game for us. They’ve recruited really well, they didn’t have the best of starts but you can see their form now. Our home form is the best in the league on points-per-game and we want to continue that."
ATMOPSPHERE
“I know that when we come out on Saturday, and have that good start that we’re aiming for and have been working towards, the atmosphere will be absolutely bouncing and that will in turn drive on the players from a position of being well rested, sharp and going into the game full of vigour.”
BURGE
"Lee has a hip flexor problem, that he actually had at the start of the season. We wouldn’t expect it to be long, it’s probably a seven to ten day injury. We’ll just reassess when we have a decision to make on the back end of that, and Patto could then potentially go back out."
PATTERSON
“We’ve got a development plan for each individual player. It would have been easy to keep Patto around but we feel he has a real bright future as a potential number one, in which case the development phase is as important as protecting the immediate results of the first time.”
