Gary Rowett

The atmosphere is going to be electric and quite intimidating.

And you've taken all those things away.

So it's going to be very different for the way teams come in here.

And it's also going to be very different for us.

But ultimately, you know, it's going to be 11 players against 11 players or 16 players against 16 players because of the new substitution rules.

And it's just going to be a game.

You know, it's going to be a fair game.

It's going to be about who, you know, can cope with the new surroundings the best.

And obviously you need to hit the ground running pretty quickly because, you know, you miss, you know, it takes you two or three weeks to find form.

You're talking about five or six games gone.

So you have to hit the ground running quickly.

Yeah, I mean, I think our initial thought process was just to try and stabilize the team and not be in a relegation fight and maybe be a mid-table team in terms of, you know, being able to look up, but rather than worrying about what's behind us.

And I felt at times, because of the size of the...

size of the club and where they've been sort of in the previous few years I felt as though maybe there was an edge of you know if one of the bottom three teams lost there was a real pleasure in it because we weren't going to get dragged down into those levels so I tried to change that mentality in terms of perhaps being a little more ambitious in our thought process but

But we've not really spoke about playoffs.

The players will, of course.

Our form since we've come in has been playoff form.

So I think they've showed they're capable of it.

But I think we're entering into, you know, like I said, a unique nine games where you just have to tick each one off.

And whatever happens in each game, you just have to learn very quickly and try to respond very quickly.