Yeovil Town manager Terry Skiverton spoke to BBC Bristol reporter Ed Hadwin just before kick-off in the home game against Sheffield Wednesday on October 16th 2010. Wednesday went on to win the game 0-2.
EH: You had a couple of injury doubts. How have they all shaped up?
TS: Yes, I think they've all scraped through. I'm picking the same team again, which is a novelty to me. There's not many games where I've been able to pick the same team. Gavin (Williams) passed (a fitness test) late yesterday. I'm looking forward to the game today. I think it's an opportunity for us. It could be another first for me today, and that's to go three games and three wins on the bounce. I've not done it so far, and today is a very good opportunity.
For us, we need to write our own script today and not be part of Sheffield Wednesday's script. When we've come to these games, especially at home, we've huffed and puffed and it's always been the same sort of scoreline of 2-0. Yeovil are a good team, but the bigger clubs have come away with a victory. So we've got to make sure that doesn't happen today.
EH: That belief must be there after two such good away performances?
TS: Yes, it is there, but you always come crashing back down to earth. The last time I've won on two occasions where I've won two games on the spin, we've played Leeds and we've played Norwich. So what we need to do is to get over that hurdle of every time we face a big club, don't let them break into your run. We're going to try our hardest for that not to happen today. The players are aware of it, and we need to make sure that we don't go back into the thing of needing to regroup and rebuild ourselves again. So it's important for us today, and it's a difficult game, but it's one that we're looking forward to and we'll definitely be on the front foot.
EH: Is there a mentality issue against the bigger teams? As some players might thing that we could struggle here today?
TS: It wasn't against Southampton, and I'm counting recent games with that. Last year it was tougher because we had a younger group of players. I don't feel that our group is that young now, with the experience that we have with people like Gavin Williams, Owain Tudur Jones and Adam Virgo. We have got good experience right across the spine of the team and we have to make sure that counts for us today. We watched the game that they had against Leyton Orient last week and Leyton Orient had six or seven chances. But this is what I'm talking about. If you don't take your chances in that period then they'll come back to haunt you. They are a very good side. They haven't quite clicked yet, and we need to make sure that they don't use us as a battering ram to get back on a run that they're trying to create themselves.
EH: That prospect of three in a row is a great incentive as it's so tight in the table that three points today could see you shoot up several positions.
TS: That's right, and again as I speak it's all about opportunities. We have to try to take the opportunities. They're not going to be given to you. You've got to go out there and grab them yourself. So hopefully we can grab it with both hands today.
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