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" Pleased with the way we played, it wasn't quite as pretty and as jazzy as last week but we won the game this week and we didn't last week. So, it is that balance between performance, looking pretty and winning the games and today we won the game and did the necessary, and I am very pleased.
" I am pleased for anybody to score, I really am, I am pleased that Richard (Logan) played so well and he took those goals really well. He is in fine form and he is athletic and full of fitness and we can see what a fit Richard Logan looks like at the moment. He really is on top form.
" What stood out today was that we finished the game without a recognised centre-back on the pitch and we were under quite a bombardment from Carlisle. They pushed three players up and they were almost a flat four at times up against us on the edge of our box.
" We had to play a back four of four full-backs and with Matt Taylor being injured and Troy Archibald-Henville being suspended, and Rob Edwards has come off late in the game through just tiredness. To play the last fifteen minutes with no recognised centre-back was really, really pleasing, and the players did what they had to do. Man to man they did what they had to do and it bodes well for the future I guess. "
" Their goal (from Matty Robson) was hit sort of the new way really, it looked a bit Ronaldo-esque the way he hit it with the laces and it whizzed around the air a bit and flew in the net. It was probably a conventional free-kick but it was from a good 25 yards, maybe a little bit more, and it flew in the net, a great strike. He had a second chance actually not long after that so I am glad he fluffed the second one, but the first one was a terrific strike.
" With a two goal lead, two goals is never enough in a game, I never felt comfortable with two because one free-kick like that puts them right back in the game. So, we could have done with a third, we didn't get it but it turned out that two was just enough.
" The mistake that nearly led to another goal for them, they (Richard Duffy and Paul Jones), had both been very positive and the ball was going out for a corner, and they both desperately tried to stop it going out for a corner. Paul Jones came rushing out of his goal and slipped trying to catch it and Richard Duffy slipped trying to clear it and they both clashed.
" The ball went loose and Scott Golbourne did what he is supposed to do, a full-back covering and clearing it off the line. It would have been a real sickener for us but as a manager you look at the fact that both those players were trying to do something positive and they were both trying to do something correct for the team and save the team a corner. Sometimes if you are tough and courageous then somehow the rest of the team responds, and we did. "
" Retrospectively you could look back on any period in the last four and a bit years since I have been here and you could pick different eras and say that we were strong then or we looked like we wanted to win more. We have expected to win every game, that is the way I have approached every single home game.
" I think we are at the point now where we are expecting to win away games, we did last week at Walsall. So, I can't give any information on our good recent home form to say that we have changed our philosophy. We are getting a better team, we expect to win every home game, we want to win every home game and we are at the moment doing very well at home.
" We must continue with that and stretch that run even further, but I am certainly not going to start to talk about the fortress or anything else because the opportunity is there to come crashing down. So, we will do it game by game, expect to win every game, we want to win every game and if we don't then we are not happy. "
" I wouldn't say we are going to be promoted but I am certainly not going to talk as if we are not capable of it. We are a good side, we are getting better, if we are better in the second half of the season then who knows? It is a wide open league, I don't think we have to win every game to finish in the top six, I think we can just be consistent.
" There are lots of sides though that will be saying the same as me, they are contenders also. You can probably talk about 15 to 20 teams who think they have got a chance of the play-offs. We are one of them, I see no reason why we can't so why not? We have just got to keep looking to win the next game and we will see where that takes us.
" The year we got promoted from the second division I never once said we were going to get promoted or that we should. I didn't predict it, you just keep going week by week trying to win the next game and you find yourselves with one game to go that you need to win to go up. That is what we will be doing this year, we will be doing the very same thing, one game at a time and expecting and hoping and trying to win every single game home and away. "