Gillingham manager Peter Taylor spoke to BBC Radio Kent after his side's 1-0 League One win over Carlisle at the Priestfield Stadium, Taylor saying he would have been booing loudly at half-time:
“I said to the players after the game, did you run around more second-half than you did first-half and they all agreed. I thought our first-half performance was very, very poor and the booing that we got at half-time, I said to the players that if I had been in that crowd paying money to watch it then I would have been booing the loudest.
“I thought it was a very poor performance and I think it was something to me is not acceptable in the position that we are in. Second-half I thought we grafted away and we kept going, it wasn’t a good performance but we kept going and thankfully we got the penalty. I thought the players then just really dug in there to work extremely hard to get a result.
“We made changes at half-time because we just wanted to be a little bit different and to give ourselves some more options upfront. Cody McDonald has looked extremely sharp this week in training, he has worked incredibly hard to try to get back in the team. So, to me he was always going to be in my thoughts for today.
“Young Bradley Dack has looked very, very good in the friendly games that I have seen, and I just think Steven Gregory is better than what he is showing people at the minute. But, I just thought that we needed him to settle our team down and to have a bit more balance. All I thought at half-time was how I wanted the team to go out for the second-half. You can’t change things that have happened, to me the second-half was better than the first, so that is good and progress for us.
“I was here when Danny Kedwell scored two penalties against MK Dons and he took them extremely well and he took today’s extremely well. But, I think Danny’s performance was outstanding because he was very happy to go to centre-half when Leon Legge got sent off and he won probably every header when he went to centre-half as well."
“But, we need that, we are in a relegation scrap at the minute, let’s be honest about it, and we need fighting performances like we did in the second-half. That is what we have got to do and I think that is what the crowd then appreciate. I am sure they appreciated the second-half and I am sure they were bored stiff in the first-half.
“The division is a very tough division and whether Carlisle are in the bottom half or top half it is a tough division. We are going to have matches like this probably until the end of the season, that is how it is, that is how tough the division is. League One is a very, very good division these days, so there are outstanding teams that you have got to fight hard against and nick results.
“I am only complaining about Leon Legge’s first yellow card, the second one absolutely no complaints about, I thought Leon made a very bad decision and I have just spoken to him about it. But, I thought the first booking was extremely harsh, so I would like to see that one, but two bookings you can’t appeal anyway, two yellows.
“But, I was disappointed with that because I thought the referee [Charles Breakspear] had done well, but I thought he was a little bit eager to get a yellow card out, because then I think he had to even it up a few times with some other yellow cards and that is where they had someone sent off. I didn’t see that though, one of my staff saw it and they said if the referee had seen that or the assistant referee had seen that then he is off, and then I saw the red card.
“So, I haven’t got a clue what he did but to be fair Adam Barrett is a very honest player, so for him to go down, it is either a challenge or a naughty challenge, and it was obvious it was a naughty challenge. I thought it was a penalty, I couldn’t understand how it wasn’t. You can play advantage for somebody to go and score and if they don’t you can pull it back. I was surprised with that. I thought we should have had a second one. The player stopped Cody going around him because he pulled him back and it gave the goalie [Mark Gillespie] more time.”