Gary Rowett

Yeah, we've tried everything.

I mean, you know, I think the job of the management team is to try to prepare the players for something that's going to be different to the norm.

So, you know, we've had a practice match between ourselves at the stadium.

We've tried to replicate some of the things that might go on, i.e., you know, we played crowd noise for 30 minutes and then we had no crowd noise for 30 minutes.

I don't know whether it's going to be allowed, but again, it's just us

trying to get some ideas across to the players and see what might suit us more.

I think the aim for everybody really is to make it feel as close as possible to a normal game.

Of course, without our fans there, you know, it's going to be very, very difficult, but I think we can at least try it.

I think we're going to see different matches.

We've sort of studied the Bundesliga and a lot of the games have been slower.

They've been more technical.

There's been less tempo.

The ball's in play a lot more.

Home advantage, you know, is not an advantage quite clearly.

But certainly from my point of view, I mean, I watched the Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich game and obviously they had the sort of

they had the sort of fake crowd in there.

They had the crowd noise and it was probably, it felt like the tempo was higher in the game.

So I think it just shows you how important, I think we're all realizing, aren't we just how important the fans are and how integral to the game, you know, as, as players, sometimes, you know, we probably all say the same, you know, you couldn't really hear the crowd or you weren't really aware of some of the comments from the crowd or the atmosphere, but actually when you take it away,

you realize just how, you know, it is virtually the whole game.

And that's going to be the hardest bit.