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" You don't feel good tonight, the dressing-room is not good, we feel that we have been mugged a little bit. We feel that we have had more than enough of the play to get a result, get a good result, a convincing result. At the end of the day though we have got nothing from a performance which we feel was better than getting nothing out of it, it is just a big disappointment to be honest.
" We just feel that especially in the first-half probably we had the better type chances. Certainly though we have got the ball in the area often enough to expect a goal, at least one, maybe two, we are thinking three, even four. The amount of times that the ball has gone into the box with quality, we have got to ask why we haven't got on the end of the ball and put it in the back of the net.
" That is the disappointing thing, the build-up play was decent at times. We have got the ball into wide areas an awful lot of times and then you can't criticise Matty Robson and Kevan (Hurst) for putting the ball in on numerous occasions. Add that to the set-pieces, the corners and that and we feel that as a team we should be scoring goals.
" Goals are massive aren't they, they just change everything. If we had won the game 4-1 today then we would have got a standing ovation and they (Exeter) probably wouldn't have been too upset at conceding three or four goals. I am not really bothered if it was a penalty for them or it wasn't because the referee (Michael Oliver) gave it and they have scored, I am not too concerned about that to be honest. "
" They will be pleased with the way that they have set up and that they have kept a clean sheet, and they will think that they deserved something out of it because of that. We just feel that we had enough chances and enough play and enough work around their penalty box to score and win the game comfortably. We haven't done that though and that is the upsetting thing at the moment.
" It is always going to be labelled at Scott Dobie and Joe Anyinsah that they aren't a fox in the box. It is common knowledge that we need another striker at the club and that will always get labelled at the boys. They give honest performances though, Scott on another day could have had two goals, maybe three even. He has had a couple of headers there that he will think he should have done better with and he is disappointed and so is everyone else, but we score as a team and we concede as a team.
" It is an area where we need somebody that can probably come in and score those goals to make our performances get the reward that sometimes they do deserve. I think that today we deserved to win and we haven't got anything, we would have been upset with a draw and we have got nothing so we are doubly upset.
" The situation with (Richard) Offiong is that we are trying to make moves to make that happen. Today was concentration on the game wasn't it, we will have to work on that tomorrow and early next week and see if we can do it. He hasn't signed today, I don't know where these rumours come from, if he had then I would have told you by now, but there is work ongoing. "
" It is with his advisors I think, if they can sort themselves out and get the thing done, I think that the clubs are OK, the player is OK and it is just the advisors trying to make the deal a little bit more complicated. We need to try to sort them out but I think and I am hopeful that it will all get done.
" If he was in the crowd today then I could have done with him putting a shirt on and going to get me the goal to get me an equaliser. I don't know if he was there though, I am watching the game aren't I, I don't know if he is in the crowd, if he was then it was not to my knowledge.
" Wins bring confidence, we went into the game today reasonably confident, we were quite buoyant with the performances since the Brentford game. We were confident in the fact that we thought we could get a victory which would have pushed us right up the top of the table and taken a little bit of pressure off us from the end of last year, but it was not to be.
" We go down to Bristol City on Wednesday now, we prepare properly, we give the best account of ourselves that we can. Hopefully we can get a result, if we do then that is brilliant, it takes us into the weekend, and then the aggro starts again at Leyton Orient. "
" We can't be disappointed after today, we have to take disappointment on the chin as we take the plaudits when we do well. I will be back to work on Monday, we are all a bit disappointed and we are all a bit down because of the factors that if you get beaten and you haven't played well and the other team has been much better than you then it is probably easy to stomach.
" At the minute though we are feeling a little bit hard done to, but you don't have time to feel sorry for yourselves in this game and nobody else will. We have just got to keep putting the balls in those areas and keep working at our game. I think that it is confidence as well, once people get on a run of goals, we had a player last year (Danny Graham) that went 18 games, a proven goalscorer and he went 18 games without a goal.
" It just shows you how confidence can affect you, so we need our players to just start scoring goals. We need to continue to get the quality into the box and then keep going into those areas where they are going to get on the end of stuff, that is all that you can do.
" He (Paul Thirlwell) is just not ready to have played but hopefully by Wednesday he will be ready to join in, it looks like everyone else is fit from this game though. It will be a couple of weeks, three weeks, four weeks for Richard Keogh, I don't know at the minute but he is certainly not in contention for the foreseeable future."