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" I thought it was an average performance by us really that probably what we got tonight was what we deserved. I don't think we deserved to win the game really, we lacked a lot of sharpness and a lot of energy about tonight. It was an OK performance without really getting to the levels of what we have achieved over the last few weeks. We can look back and think maybe we had a few tired legs because they had a busy schedule.
" It was a difficult game for us because everybody probably just expected us to turn up and win the game as well with Carlisle being where they are. But they made it difficult for us and we just lacked that real sort of cutting edge when we were in the final third to really zip the ball around, close people down with energy and high tempo.
" Ultimately though if you had offered me at the start of the season, ten games in and we have got eight wins and two draws then I would have been delighted with that. That is why we can be disappointed but we have got to obviously draw from the many positives that we have had from the start of the season. It was a quiet dressing room after the game, but you have to be positive with the start we've had, being honest, we would have taken four points from the two games against MK Dons and Carlisle.
" From where I was stood it was obviously very difficult to see if it was a penalty, and what it was for and where it was for. I have not seen it since so I will trust the referee's decision. Obviously Greg (Abbott) wasn't too happy about it but I don't know if he could see it from where I was as well.
" But you get these decisions and I was frustrated that we missed another penalty but obviously Jermaine (Beckford) has got the second one, got the rebound. You sometimes get them but overall over the course of the night I think that us and Carlisle got what we both deserved I think. "
" For the last ten days Jermaine has practised half a dozen penalties at least every day after training and has put everything in the top corners and this, that and the other with Shane (Higgs) and Casper (Ankergren) in goal. So he felt confident enough to take it but it is an issue that is driving me mad, I just want someone who is going to score the goals for us when we get the next penalty.
" It is frustrating when you lose a goal from any set-piece situation. Because you don't mind losing goals from teams that are moving it around and opening you up and some good play. But a ball into the box and the lad (Scott Dobie) gets a free header where we have got five or six designated headers of the ball. It was disappointing and maybe that was the tired minds as well as tired bodies. But it is still no excuse at not being able to defend a set-piece, and it is obviously something we have got to deal with.
" There are a lot of positives that have come out of tonight's game because it is another win (ed - point?), it is another game unbeaten, another night where we could have maybe won the game. Because (Robert) Snodgrass hit the post straight after the goal, I think if we had got that then it could have been game over.
" But Carlisle have got some experienced players and they have got some players that are capable of turning games, and that is what they did tonight. But we will draw from all the experience of tonight and all the positives that we can take from our outstanding start to the season. "