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.