**Guinness PRO14 interviews brought to you by [Big Red Cloud](https://www.bigredcloud.com/)** **Part two of Sean Holley’s exclusive interview with Zebre coach Michael Bradley** In one of the more curious anomalies of the 2019/20 season, it was a Zebre team that failed to score a point who came closest to Leinster prior to the Coronavirus interruption. A 3-0 win in Parma was the defending Guinness PRO14 champions’ smallest winning margin in all competitions. It says something about how competitive Zebre can be in the right circumstances, but also goes against what Michael Bradley is trying to achieve in Parma. In an interview with Sean Holley, presented by Big Red Cloud, Bradley explained just how he has worked on changing the Zebre mindset in his three years in Italy, and particularly why he feels the coming season could see the team take another stride in that direction. He said: “The boys have bought into what we’re trying to do on the pitch. We will take risks in attack, we will take risks in defence. We try to put pressure on the opposition early in both those areas. “That’s not a way that the players here were used to playing. It’s not a style they were comfortable with but at the end of the third year, they have become very comfortable with it. We haven’t won as many matches as we would have liked but when we play well and get the momentum in a match, we’re difficult to hold back and we’ll get used to that feeling. It’s about developing that feeling with this group. “It’s exciting times for Zebre. It’s interesting with the Under-20s World Cup that was meant to be in Parma. The pitch we play on is normally a heavy pitch but they have renovated the pitch now and putting in a whole new drainage system, it should be a super pitch next year and that should help the style of play so that’s another added bonus and a bit of excitement coming here.”
