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" We are shattered, we know that we have let ourselves down and we know that we have let the fans down. Hereford came here and they are second bottom of the league, so you expect to beat them and you should beat them. We are dejected in there but I have got to hold my hand up for the first goal, I said that to the boys in there and I apologised, because it was a cross-field pass and they caught us on the counter-attack.
" I have got to hold my hand up and I am brave enough and strong enough to do that. Then we went 2-0 down and it is an uphill battle, especially with the wind. The stupid thing is though that at half-time, we were saying that we didn't expect still then to lose the game. The lads were up for it, up for it massively, and the wind we thought was going to help. Kav (Graham Kavanagh) has had a great chance early on and if that goes in then it is a different ball game, but the boys are dejected in there.
" It is a confidence thing with the strikers, Danny (Graham) at the start of the season was hitting them from anywhere and they were flying in, remember the toe-poke that lobbed the keeper (at Tranmere). Things like that happen and that is what happens with strikers, if you are not scoring then it plays on your mind and the time to be critical of strikers is when you are not getting chances.
" If you are getting chances and you are missing then you hold your hands up, chances are going to come and the goals will come back, Danny is a great player and he will come back. I missed a sitter in the penalty box as well with my left foot when Lewis (Neal) put one over. So again, the boys are just devastated and we can only apologise.
" We don't know at this moment in time what to do to turn it round. We fiddled the formation, we are trying everything, the only thing that we can say is that the dressing-room is still a good dressing-room. We are still backing Den (Dennis Booth) and the gaffer (Greg Abbott) because we are training hard and we are working hard. "
" It will come, we are up for it, we know that we are in a dogfight, the quicker that we all realise that and we know that we are in the relegation battle, and realise that we have got to get on and dig it out. It is not going to be pretty for the next seven games and it is going to take a bit of blood and guts.
" Arguing on the pitch comes in the game, that is just frustration creeping into the game, you see that in every league. In the dressing-room though everything is spot on, everybody is behind it. The hardest thing is that the lads that aren't involved, and they see the team getting beat, I think they now want to be in there and playing that game and saying that they can do it. Everybody is in the dressing-room together, nobody is sneaking off and saying stuff this, everybody is there, don't worry about that.
" We knew that we were going to get a rollocking at half-time, I am just pleased that my goal went in because I owed the boys that and I owed the gaffer that for the chance that I missed early on and obviously their goal. So it was just a case of we had to try to dig it out and grind it out and they hung on, you could tell that they were just trying to kill the game.
" All credit to Ben (Williams), he has kept us in the game, the lad (Fabian Brandy) has gone through again and Ben has made a good save. Things like that, you have got to hold onto them and then go up the other end and score, but unfortunately it wasn't to happen today. We have got to put this behind us and look to beat Northampton, because we do seem to play better against better teams.
" There has got to be that same desire in everybody, it is pride. If you saw Joe (Anyinsah's) and Lewis (Neal's) face in there then you would understand, it does, it hurts, it means something. Because the lads are coming on loan and they want to play well because obviously there are other people watching, their clubs watching them.
" You don't want to underperform and get beat, you want to come here and they are a good set of lads that have come in. Everybody is together, they are disheartened in there and it means something, if they were in laughing and joking after a result like that then you would be asking questions, but they are not. "