Luke Dowling

But just going back a step, our sports science team, I can't praise enough.

You know, in that period where the players were at home and training their own, they were on to them daily, keeping their fitness levels up.

And that's why I'm confident that I think we can hit the ground running because we have been on top of the players since the Swansea game, which was the last game we played.

Other clubs that may have a different opinion about that the 20th is too soon, that may be because they've had to furlough their players during that period before they've come back training.

The staff have been furloughed.

And we all know that unless you keep on top of players, you know, they won't always do what we want them to do.

And that's where we've been fortunate with that during the lockdown period.

And Nick Davis at Leeds Sports Science has been really, really good with them and also

credit to the players you know it's um people think that because there's nothing else to do at this period apart from exercise you still have to be motivated you guys know they get given you know the the monitors so we know how hard they are working and for them to get up each day and go and do that isn't it is we have got the carrot of obviously promotions they want to come back in good shape but i think their professionalism has been really really good

Yeah, it's exactly that.

We've got, you know, the two lists that we feel, and there will be players on both lists, you know,

as well so it is very very difficult because i and that's what i feel i felt this time last year um

we've done wrong.

We, you know, we were only looking at players for the Premier League and we probably got ahead of ourselves.

Whereas now, you know, we're trying to be calm.

We're trying to be as professional as we can.

There are players, if we are a championship club, I must admit the list does look slightly bigger and better.

We are a Premier League club, but you have to be professional enough now to have both lists in both scenarios.

We obviously hope we're looking at one particular list for players in the summer.

But the way it is now, there's so many databases you can use, there's so many softwares, there's so many agents as well, and so many players available, especially in this window.