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" I think we came out well in the first-half after the game had settled down in the first five or ten minutes, we played some really good football and went in 1-0 up, and obviously it could have been more. We said at half-time with the recent run of results we have had and not getting a win that we just wanted to make sure that we kept a clean sheet, we went out in the second-half and that's what we did.
" I think it's only natural that if you come under a spot of pressure, which is inevitable in every game, the away team or when you play away, are going to have a spell in the game and you have to weather that storm. That's what the lads are there at the back for, we do defend from the front but we did get pegged back a little bit, although we managed to hold on in the end.
" It was a massive win, don't get me wrong – while it is disappointing to lose three league games in a row it wasn't a crisis or anything. In those last three games had we not played well in patches in any of the games then it would have been more of a concern but we thought in games that we were very unlucky to come away with nothing. We just said - let's keep it going - especially here at home we know we create chances and score goals.
" The back-four were brilliant but we attack as a team and defend as a team. Near the end you need your big centre-halves to head balls away, especially when you have players like Gareth Taylor coming on who is a handful for any back-four or any centre-half. We knuckled down, in the last 20 minutes we were under a bit of pressure but we managed to come through.
" I'm very much enjoying it, I think obviously that you enjoy a Saturday a hell of a lot more on the back of a win. We're playing well though, that puts us back on course so I'm sure we'll be up there again at the top end of the league. Sometimes, while nobody wants to lose a game, draws sometimes you get nowhere, we could have drawn the last three games and been in exactly the same position as we are today. You just have to take knocks on the chin, brush yourself down and go out the next week and try and win again. "