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" I think the times of the goals says it all. We think we've taken a point from a poor night and I'm at a loss to know what we were thinking at that point. I'm personally thinking there's a couple of minutes of injury time left, if we are positive here we could win this and well, quite the opposite.
" I don't know what we've thought, whether it was just unlucky, but it is not unlucky, you don't concede those goals by being unlucky, it is just not good enough. So a poor night, it took us to be 2-0 down before we had the sort of confidence to play. A very, very poor start in terms of our liveliness, they were lively, we were dull, maybe a hangover from Saturday where maybe the players were feeling sorry for themselves, I don't know.
" But a fantastic comeback and the pressure we put on them in the second-half for 46 was minutes was excellent, I mean really excellent. We deserved the two goals based on that pressure and that ball in the box and then just a woeful minute, a bit like the Brighton goal we conceded in the last minute, just a complete lack of concentration.
" There are so many variables involved with one bit of play, there are 22 players on the pitch and a referee and you can't just put it down to one person or one thing. It is not a coincidence, there are a number of reasons why, or could be why, but it makes no difference now, it is a point thrown away.
" Only having one centre-half hasn't made it all difficult to prepare. I think Richard Duffy and Steve Tully were playing in possibly their preferred positions in the system anyway, and Matt Taylor so I have got no issue with the team we had and there are no excuses there whatsoever. "
" We didn't lose the game today because we couldn't cope with crosses in the box - we didn't have enough big men or whatever it might be. We lost the game tonight because as a team we weren't good enough. So no excuses there about the back players or anything like that.
" MK Dons on Saturday isn't about revenge for the FA Cup, it is about us getting a point and getting our season going again. That is what it is about regardless of who we play, so no revenge involved, that is way down the list.
" This is about us getting some points and getting our season back on track. We are looking like we are faltering so we have got some work to do and get ourselves reorganised, which we will do, I am sure we will do that. But we have to be better than we were tonight.
" You might think there might be some movement in the transfer window. These things always happen last minute and for every 100 phone calls we make, one might be a positive one. It is an awful time for us managers really, especially when we are down the pecking order a little bit in terms of where players may go.
" So we have to wait until the last minute, so we may have some and we may not. I don't distrust our players, I know this probably better than anybody where we need to be improved as a team, not individually but in areas we need to be improved.
" But it is one thing knowing it, second thing doing something about it and third thing it is getting a deal done, that is the hard bit. So we will see what happens, we have got enough good players here to get results, so that is my first starting point - is the players we have. "