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" An absolutely terrible day to be fair, you have got to smile otherwise you are going to cry, I think to be fair it was one of those days. We started the game off pretty brightly though, they cleared two balls off the line and then you start to wonder, but defensively we were poor.
" I have just said to the lads in there that they have let themselves down, they have let the club down and they have let the fans down. All I can do is apologise on behalf of them, it is a long journey up here and that performance is not acceptable for Milton Keynes and they have been told that in no uncertain terms.
" It says to me now that when we haven't Cracks (David McCracken) and (Mathias Kouo-) Doumbe that the ones who came in are not good enough and that is the bottom line. We looked depleted today and when we haven't got our star players playing, or our best eleven, missing Jemma (Jermaine Easter) and Sam (Baldock) as well then we are an average side and you have seen that today.
" Sometimes these players go back to self-type and I am not going to name players, it is not nice to do that. But at the end of the day as I have said before unless we have got our top eleven then we are just an average side. That comes in time, you need to build, you need money to build and it just shows you, you go back to the Southampton game, the players they are bringing on to what we have got. "
" We brought Alex Rae on again today and he was probably one of our best players when he came on. That just shows you where we are as a club but there was no reason to cave in and you have to keep going. To be fair it could have been seven or eight, we got away lightly and our fans don't deserve that.
" At the end of the day we have got to get on with it, we have done that to teams before, we did it to Hartlepool three or four weeks ago, and we have got our own punishment today. Some gave it their all, some tried their hardest, Andros (Townsend) was different class again, but some didn't and they are the ones who won't be at this club next season.
" You do learn a lot about your players in a defeat like this and I have learned a lot today. Listen, we are not going to win every game, I accept that, it is how you lose games and when you go 3-0 down you start to fragment. It is lack of character, you give people chances and if they don't take them then you have to move on, and that is what we are going to do.
" But you do learn and it is hard because you have to tarnish the whole team with that result yet some of the performances were decent at times. We did create chances but you have got to blame the players, you have got to blame me, you have got to blame the staff. But you find out a lot about players when you see games like this today. "