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" It wasn't good enough, a poor performance, I wouldn't say for the entire game but certainly after the first goal went in. I think that for about 28 minutes we looked very, very comfortable and looked the sharper of the two teams. Obviously the goal was a turning point, for their confidence and it affected us, I am bitterly disappointed with the performance though.
" I am disappointed with the second goal because when the referee (David Webb) puts a minute up then as a group of players then you should get together and over our dead bodies do we concede a goal just on half-time. Unfortunately we did that though so we end up chasing another game.
" I made changes at half-time because we have got players that can win games, and the two lads that came off (Dean Cox and Stuart Fleetwood), it wasn't a reflection on them really because the damage was done in the back four. So they will feel disappointed with that but we wanted to freshen it up, we have got players available to us so why not.
" I find it unbelievably disappointing, as a back-four we were all over the place, we didn't deal with the lone striker well enough. The first goal starts with somebody attempting to dribble, a centre-half dribbling with the ball and it is nonsense. So we made bad decisions in key areas and made Carlisle look better than they actually were. "
" In the first-half there wasn't a problem with our passing but in the second-half, for whatever reason, I am not going to deny that Carlisle deserved the victory but certainly our passing in the second-half left a lot to be desired. Getting the players back up for the next game is obviously the art of management and at the moment we have got to lick our wounds.
" We will have a roll call tomorrow and try to prepare right for a difficult task at Hartlepool. Certainly though I am looking at individuals now and asking them to stand up and be counted, because certainly in that second-half period I didn't see too many doing that.
" I didn't have a selection in my mind for the Hartlepool game, you can only take football one game at a time. I know that it is an old cliché but if you start analysing things too quickly and worrying about the next game then you will end up in a, I don't know where you will end up, but certainly you are not in a place that you want to be.
" So my mind at the minute is, I am trying to analyse what has gone wrong here today. Some individuals have let themselves down big-time today and they have been told in no uncertain terms. I need a response and the club needs a response, we have disappointed our fans that have travelled a long way today and we can only apologise for that. "