Below are selected highlights from Thursday afternoon’s press conference ahead of Town facing Wimbledon on Saturday afternoon. You can find the full audio above or in your We Are Terriers podcast feed.

Lee Grant

Let’s start with injury news - can you give us any update on Antony Evans?

Yeah, not good. So it’s a similar injury to what he experienced earlier in the season — or pre-season, I should say — so we’re going to be without Antony for a good while. He’s in London seeing the specialists as we speak. In terms of the time frame … it’s going to be months.

It’s a real tough one to take for Antony, of course, and for all of us, because we’ve watched him work really, really hard to get himself back in a position where he can come and help us. We’ve had some really good conversations, Antony and I, on specifically that, and he’s been looking forward to being part of this team so much. We’re really feeling it for him as well, so it’s a tough one for us to take

Is there in any way you can legislate for that, or is it just really bad luck?

It’s incredibly unfortunate to be presented with that sort of action so early on into him being on the pitch in the game.

Look, he’s worked really hard to strengthen that area and that that injury specifically, and the injury is to a slightly different part of the ligament, and the old injury was healed and was ready, so the misfortune involved in that is incredible.

No Marcus Harness at the weekend either due to suspension, so it feels like you’re missing some really key players this weekend, particularly looking at the midfield. How do you start to approach the best option of getting all the right jigsaw pieces in the right place to be effective against Wimbledon?

Yeah, well, there’s no denying that we are, unfortunately, in a position again where best-made plans are out the window and we’ve got five midfielders that we’ve signed to the football club, and not very many of them available or fit. So yeah, we have to adjust.

We’ve done that in the past, and we’ve done that through one or two different avenues, and I’ve got my thinking cap on over the next 48 hours in terms of making sure we make the right decisions and making sure that we give ourselves a good opportunity against another tough team to go and do that. We’ve got options. We’ve got players that can adapt, we’ve got [David Kasumu] coming back who will be there or thereabouts. So we’ve got some options.

That second Luton goal on Tuesday night is a cumulative thing, there’s lots of players involved in that — but given some of the mistakes he’s made before, obviously the spotlight will fall particularly on Owen Goodman. Do you feel that’s fair? Does he still have your your faith in between the sticks there?

I think I’ve been pretty clear about the fact that I feel really comfortable with both my goalkeepers, and Tuesday night doesn’t change that for me at all.

I’ve got big faith and trust in Owen and Lee [Nicholls], and despite the fact I don’t want to be a manager that rotates his goalkeeper every other week, I’ve also made it clear to them both that the doors never shut for either of them. I want there to be that challenge and fight for both of them all the time.

So I want Owen when he’s playing to to have to play well every week to keep Lee out. I want Lee to be the best trainer and when he gets his opportunity in a cup of competition, or whenever his opportunities come, I want him to play and be at his level. And when Lee’s got the shirt, I want him to be faultless and I want him to keep the shirt forever and a day. That’s how it will continue to be.

So look, they both have my trust. Owen has my trust and belief, and the same goes for everybody. So when I pick a team on Saturday with 11 names on it, that 11 has my full trust back in the belief, and should have the trust and backing from everybody that comes to support us.

Dion Charles

We’ll get on to some of the bigger picture stuff in a minute, but just talking personally, how pleased are you with your own form at the moment?

Yeah, I’m delighted. As a striker, you pride yourself on scoring goals. I said when I come to this club that I wanted to prove to people what I can do — it just took me a bit longer than what I’d hoped. But I just needed to get that first one, and I said in the interview after I scored my first goal, wait for one, and they all come at once. As long as I’m scoring and helping the team, that’s the main thing.

You and Bojan Radulovic seem to be developing this really lovely partnership as well. Why do you think it’s proving so successful?

We’ve I think we’ve both got our the bit between our teeth. I’m sure Bojan would have been as frustrated as me from the start of season, perhaps not playing as many games as we want, but I’ve stuck professional, trained as hard as I can day in day out, practiced, and was quietly confident that when given an opportunity, I would take it.

That’s something that Lee Grant has talked about. He’s praised you in conversations about your work ethic and determination to just keep your head down and get on with it…that at times must be hard to do when you feel like those opportunities aren’t coming your way?

Yeah, it would have been easy to throw my toys out the pram and give up, but I’m in a fortunate position. I’m professional footballer and I’m doing something that people would dream of doing.

For me, I’ve said it all along, you can’t take it for granted the position that we’re in, and one thing I’ve always said is that I’ll always give it my best shot, and it won’t be through lack of effort that I don’t get to where I want to, I’ve had to stay patient, and I’m getting my rewards for that.

Would it be fair to say this is perhaps the happiest you felt since joining the club?

Yeah, definitely. You can see that the fans in recent weeks have sort of got behind me and Bojan and you can you can tell in the performances that we’re putting in.

Perhaps fans might not realise it, but they do play a big part in getting behind the lads, and it’s amazing to see the fans chanting your name — that’s what you want. Obviously having your family in the stand, through the really good times and the bad times they hear everything. So now it’s a much better place to come and work.

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