Paul Heckingbottom on Sam Greenwood suspension
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00:00How is Sam? Is he a bit gutted because he just got going and made a big impression on you, hasn't he?
00:03Yeah, he is gutted.
00:05Yeah, he's looked a little bit lost these last couple of days.
00:08You know, he's not preparing for a game.
00:12We're going to give him, just because of our programme now as well,
00:14and he's come in since we've come in.
00:16He's played a lot of football, been involved in a lot of our games,
00:21produced big physical output.
00:22So we're going to look after him a little bit this weekend and then next week
00:27we're preparing for another two big games.
00:29So there won't be a lot of training, so he'll have a lot of his own training programme
00:34and then he'll fall back into line with us during the international break again.
00:37So, yeah, that's what it looks like for him.
00:39Does he know what went wrong with the tackle, the technique?
00:43Yeah, we know.
00:44Yeah, exactly.
00:45Yeah, like I said, a push in the back, you know, so forget the tackle,
00:50a push in the back there is the wrong thing to do.
00:52Does that make sense?
00:53He's got a player facing his own dugout.
00:55We've applied real good pressure.
00:56He's got nowhere to go and fouling him is his only way out.
00:59So giving the foul away is the wrong thing.
01:01I speak to Sam a lot.
01:03Me, growing up, it's similar.
01:05So I think there's the North East, South Yorkshire, Merseyside.
01:09You tend to want to come out on top in a physical way rather than any other way.
01:12And Sam's been brought up that way, where he likes to compete physically,
01:16you know, and he wants to win the ball.
01:18And sometimes that isn't the correct decision, you know.
01:22But, yeah, I don't want to take that enthusiasm and that aggression out of his game.
01:28But as he gets older, he's still only young.
01:31In the next couple of years, he'll start to realise where and when to use it
01:35and then how best to use it.