Blackpool assistant coach discusses some of the changes he made to the Seasiders' starting XI for Monday night's game against Wigan Athletic.
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00:00Out of your six changes to the starting XI, two players dropped out completely, Albie Morgan and Jake Beasley. Is everything okay there or is any not?
00:06Yeah, well, Albie is ill, he's not well, he reported into the medical team. So, yeah, we wish Albie a speedy recovery and hope he's back with us soon.
00:17Beas, no, it was tactical. It's a squad game now, even the players on the bench, even the players not in the squad, it's all a big togetherness. Teams and substitute benches are selected for, obviously, the opposition.
00:35Whether we go physical, whether we go with technical players, so no big concerns about selecting a team against the opponents that we face.
00:47So, you're hopeful Albie will be back Saturday and he gets past that illness?
00:51Yeah, we don't know at the minute. It was just a last-minute thing with Albie, so we'll wait and see what the medical team say tomorrow morning and take it from there.
00:59The big thing that's always made about swapping goalkeepers, we've seen a sacred position in some ways where you don't tend to switch. So, how big a call was it to make that decision?
01:07You're right, it is always a big call because I don't think you do change your goalkeepers very often. But Harry has come in and done well, he's fitted into the dressing room terrifically well.
01:16But we've got Richie's experience and we thought that tonight, a local derby, we might just need an experienced voice behind the back line.
01:28Matty Pennington in there in the back line, Fletcher's experience, Evo Black as captain, so right down the spine of the team, we just thought we'd need that little bit more experience.
01:39As a young goalkeeper, do you have to be careful with Harry? He makes sure the conversations are right, he understands the reasons why he's dropped out?
01:46Yeah, I think, thanks to the goalkeeper coach, we'll have a good chat with him and we're there to support all the players. All we want is maximum performance out of every player, so that's our job is to get that.
01:59As I said, Harry's done well, it's just that we had considered a few goals and we just wanted to give Richie the number one jersey tonight.