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" The Leeds decision was a bit of a relief, there was a bit of a rumour going around that they had found some sort of loophole in the system and that they were going to get the 15 points back. We were all stuck to the TV screens at five o'clock waiting for the result of it. It hasn't been much of a distraction really to be honest, it's only the last couple of days when the result of the inquiry was going to come out that everyone was talking about it.
" When something is out of your hands like that though there is nothing that you can do about it, the lads are just concentrating on their own game really. It has given us a bit of a lift, the last few results that we have had, well the last three we have lost obviously. There has been Leeds away, that could have gone either way, then you look at Southend we got a man sent off, and then Millwall we got a man sent off.
" Little things like that have not gone for us in the last few games. Obviously Leeds not getting those points we know that we have still got a fighting chance to get promoted, we need to rely on other results but anything can happen in football and especially on the last day. There is a lot of pressure on other teams at the moment so we are just going to do our best.
" I think that you have just got to look at the small squad that we have got. It is such a small squad compared to, you know you look at Swansea, Doncaster, Nottingham Forest, Leeds, the people who are up there with us have all got far bigger squads than we have got. We've had a core of players who have played 50 games each, maybe it has taken it's toll.
" You try to stay right for every game as a player, and you do your best to recover from inbetween games. Maybe the manager (John Ward) is right in his assessment of us being tired, maybe he is not, I don't know. The lads have given it everything this season, it's been a long old season and a bit of tiredness creeping in here or there is probably no real surprise. "
" It's absolutely very frustrating for me and I'm not a very good spectator, it's doing my head in all the time. I keep going over it in my head all the time actually, the sending-off and things and how it has just really ended my season. I feel like it's really done the lads at the end of the season, because that actual game when I did get sent off we were on top and it has just changed the whole season around, with losing against Southend.
" It is very frustrating, I hope that I don't play again this season, which means that we will go up automatic, but I'll be available for the second game of the play-offs so there you go.You could see with the lads in training that everyone was at it this week. It is most weeks but after a display like that at Millwall you can see the anger in play all week, and everyone was bang at it in training. Everyone is looking forward to the game tomorrow and trying to get it out of the system.
" Bournemouth have been on a great run haven't they recently so they'll come here flying. Cheltenham, I wouldn't like to go there to try to get a result, at the end of the season with them scrapping for their life as well. Yeovil are going to the City Ground, there is going to be a full house there, they have got no pressure on them, they might just start popping it around and play their best game they have ever played. I don't know what the hardest game is really, you've just got to look at your own game and try to win that one. I wouldn't like to be in anyone's else's shoes.
" He (Paul Reid) hasn't been in training, he's still on the sidelines, still injured, so he won't be fit. It has been quite difficult for us to pick ourselves up, Monday morning was pretty dull but you soon get past that. You get into the next day and the next day and you have to get past it, you can't dwell on things like that because it will ruin you as a player.
" You've just got to move on and put it behind you, we've had a few results like that this season, you look at Bristol Rovers away and Oldham away. Performances like that happen in seasons and unfortunately it's happened at the business end of the season. It's a cracking bunch of lads, I think that's what we have got going for us, so they will pick themselves up and get on with it. "