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" I feel sorry for the players because to have come this far it makes it so disappointing. I did feel that if we were to win the game today or get anything out of it that we needed, that it needed to be our day and it wasn't our day. There were a couple of really important decisions that I thought swung it.
" From where I was their goal looked like the fella (Scott Dobie) came from miles offside, and we had a blatant penalty decision not given. Those sort of things are key, you need for them to go your way if you are going to win a game, and today it just never did. As much as we tried it just wasn't our day and I think it was as simple as that.
" The referee decided that he (Paul Arnison) wasn't the final man when he brought down Jo Kuffour. I don't know what was in his thinking but we aren't going to do anything about that now, the decisions didn't go our way on the last day of the season. So it's bitterly disappointing and I must say really, really hard to take. As well as the lads have done and as proud as they can be of themselves, which they really, really can be it doesn't really hide the disappointment.
" I think that since we broke our duck and got off the mark at home, really our form since then has been pretty good, and obviously latterly in the season it has been excellent. The players themselves can take so much credit from the way they have performed, they really have. They have excelled themselves and improved, they have done themselves, their families, and Bournemouth Football Club proud.
" The travelling support was great, the real supporters at Bournemouth Football Club are fantastic, they really are. Every journey for them is a major journey and they came up in their numbers. I'm just so, so disappointed that we couldn't send them home happy. I had a sneaky feeling, I've got to be honest, I had a sneaky feeling that a point might be good enough for us today, but football throws up some funny old results and it just wasn't to be. "