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_Here are some of the edited highlights from the press conference — you can find the full audio, including Jak Alnwick’s contribution, above or in the We Are Terriers podcast feed._
**It’s another opportunity for players to get minutes tomorrow. Obviously you want to win – what else do you want to see from tomorrow night?**
I think just getting back to our identity and looking, feeling and showcasing what we’ve been about for 14 games. I think it’s important that we show that and we show that Saturday was just a moment in time rather than anything bigger. I truly believe that.
We’ve got a squad where, with us not having the game on Saturday, we can look towards the Leicester game and kind of use these two games to make sure everybody’s in the perfect position come Leicester, which will be a huge task for us.
So yes, of course, it’s another game that we want to win. Martin will stress that enough: we do not like losing games. It’s not on our radar at any moment, no matter who we’re playing. So we look to address that. We look to be positive.
We look to get the performance looking and feeling back how it has done, and then we look to build on that. We have a busy, busy schedule. Just because there’s a game called off actually means it’s _busier,_ because we’ve got the time now and the opportunity to prepare and be perfectly positioned to go and play Leicester.
**With that in mind, you do have this gap over the international break now. Does that change how you approach tomorrow night? Might you be inclined to give more of the regular first-team players minutes, knowing they’re not going to be playing for a while, or do you view it as another opportunity for the wider squad to get opportunities and get their eye in a bit more?**
Yeah, I think we saw that the whole squad is going to be so important. I think that’s really key. Saturday and then obviously tomorrow night, with us not having a game until Leicester, gives us an opportunity to kind of mould those games and make sure that everybody is, again, in the best position we can be as a whole squad come Leicester.
There are little bits around individuals that might need a little bit more than others, and some that, if they’re carrying something, there’s an opportunity to give them a little bit of a breather. But again, the squad is so, so important. Everybody is pushing to play.
It’s not like there are the starters and another group. Everybody is pushing to be on that pitch, and we need to keep that.
So it’s important that everybody is bought in, everybody is supporting in the right way if it’s not them on the pitch, and again making sure that we’re in the best place for Leicester.
**It’s Liverpool Under-21s who are the opposition. How does it differ playing against a Premier League academy side as opposed to another League One or League Two team?**
Yeah, again, different challenges. Liverpool, as you’d expect, are physically good. They can change direction well. They’re all young and hungry, technically very, very gifted players, but they haven’t at times been accustomed to some of the hustle and bustle that we would see in a regular league game.
So there are slightly different challenges and different things that we need to look at. I think it’s a terrific game. We’ve watched a lot of them and they’re a terrific young side. They move the ball really well. They can hurt you.
But again, like you mentioned with us and the squad that we’ve got, we can cause some real problems as well. I think these games have been fantastic in terms of development for our lads, but they’ve posed different challenges with the opposition.
I think we get another one tomorrow night, which again is good for our development and the learning of our guys as well.