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" We will probably end up boring people now won't we coming up and talking about the same things. The disappointment now though is that the 1-0 scoreline, we have just got to score, we have got to get goals. We had two great fantastic chances, especially in the second-half when the ball is whipped right across the goal and we didn't get either on target.
" I think that is the disappointment, I don't whether there might be a fear factor just creeping into the players but we have got to have strong people out there. We have got to have strong people with the back-room staff, myself and Dennis (Booth) and we have to have strong people out there.
" If you get one chance in the game then sometimes it is good enough to get you a 1-0 victory and today that might have been the case. We had more than one chance though and we still can't get the goal to give us a bit of breathing space and give us something to hang onto, and that is going to make the job very, very difficult.
" Swindon is now a must-win, there is no question there. That dressing-room has got to pick itself up now because it is low and maybe it is even feeling a bit sorry for itself because of the games and the amount of play that we have in games. Plus the fact that we don't put chances away and the fact that we are not nicking a 1-0 win and that we can't keep a clean sheet, and these things spread to the players and it makes it hard work for them. "
" They have got to be the ones that have got to stand up and be brave and get us out of it. We can talk all we want to talk but they have got to cross that white line and next week with 7,000 or 8,000 people really willing them on and they have got to produce for them. They have got to put a performance in that gets a result, it is as simple as that.
" I don't think that the players should need a kick up the backside, the situation is a serious one, it is one that they should not be pleased with. It is one that they should be horrified by it, and I sometimes think that I shouldn't have to do a team-talk before the game because the seriousness of the situation.
" You think that people should roll their sleeves up and just get out there and die for the cause regardless now. Because we can be one off the bottom, two off the bottom, out of the relegation zone or whatever, we are in a massive dogfight now and points are imperative and as quickly as possible.
" It is hard to say yes and it is hard to say no about whether players are dying for the cause. All you have got to see there is that they have really got to fight and scrap, fear plays a bit of a part and they are out there today and I thought that some of them, they just looked a bit edgy. Certainly in front of goal we looked edgy again didn't we, we are not firing on all cylinders in that area of the field. The problem that we have got is with our injury crisis we don't have too many options to play around with. "
" Making saves is what Ben Williams is there for, their keeper (Alex Smithies) has made a couple of good saves as well and we have missed a couple of chances. It is up the other end where I am worried because if we don't start scoring goals then we are not going to win games and Ben just can't keep making save after save for us. There comes a time where your forwards have got to do your business for you at the other end of the pitch and we are not doing that at the minute.
" I am going to take responsibility aren't I, you know what I am like. If I am disappointed that we didn't put the ball in at the far-post then yes I am, of course I am. I think that goals change the shape of matches, just look at the Tranmere game when we battered Tranmere for half a game, they score a goal and in the end they beat us 4-0 *(4-1 - ed). They beat us absolutely convincingly and we looked a really poor side at the end of it.
" Today it could have been one of them because I think that Huddersfield were at times going through the motions and the game was going nowhere. A goal or a bit of something though gives them a bit of a lift and gives them that energy to drive on. We need that at the minute, we need that goal, and I am not going to say that it is his fault or his fault, I am going to say that collectively today we haven't done enough to win a game. Because what we haven't done again is put the ball in the back of the net and that is paramount in this industry.
" We might have Paul Thirlwell back in contention on Saturday and obviously we have got Lummy (Chris Lumsdon) there as well that will be fighting for the midfield slot. So we have probably just about got cover there with the way that they are coming back from injuries and Lummy coming back to his fitness as well. "
" So we just have to regroup, I have told them to have a rest tomorrow. We need to have a breather with all the games we have played and they have worked hard over the weekend for little reward, but that is the game. We will work hard from Wednesday, Thursday, Friday though, we had planned to give them a bit longer off but you can't, we just can't do that.
" We have to get them in, we have to work on things, we have to work on our togetherness for one thing and our morale because that is as low as anything. So we come in and then we work really hard and we have got to come out of the traps and we have got to really take the game to Swindon because obviously the chances and the games are running out quickly and we have it to do.
" Decisions on who starts a game are things that we consider day in, day out, week in, week out. There comes a point where have I given Danny (Graham) enough time to prove his worth? It is a question that if I ask it then he has got to answer it. I don't think that he could have any complaints if we fiddled around with that.
" Scott (Dobie) could probably have a lot of complaints that he hasn't had a chance with a run of games but it is something that we will have a look at this week. You know me better than to commit myself just straight after a game and say anything daft on that score. It is something though that we have to look at ways of finding the back of the net by hook or by crook, that is the key to what is what going on with us at the moment.
" The supporters were brilliant, I really feel sorry for them because I think that they have come hoping that we could get something out of the game to take back into next week. They have come in and there looked to be a couple of thousand, a good couple of thousand there today *(994 - ed). Fantastic, as they always are and they will be as frustrated and as angry or disappointed as I am. We have to stand here though and watch it and hope that something sparks us into winning a game, and we haven't managed to find it today. "