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" It was not good enough, I have come out here over the last two or three weeks and I have said we have done OK in patches, but you can't defend people today. People who have been in this game will look at it and they will have the exact same opinion as me. It is not good enough for Milton Keynes Dons, it is not good enough for the manager, the staff or the players either.
" For where we want to go that is nowhere near what we expect, and at the same time as that from open play we were by far the better team, by far the better team. But we have got to be mentally stronger and physically stronger and defend so much better. I couldn't believe the 90 minutes I thought it just plain and simply wasn't good enough.
" I think within the first two and a half minutes we could have been 2-0 up with Sam Baldock's one in the first 30 seconds and then the one when it has been pulled back to Alby (Aaron Wilbraham). You don't take those chances and then the next thing you know you look at the scoreboard and it is 3-0 through our own fault, not through their good play. All four goals could have been stopped, we have had an inquest and that will stay amongst us and that is all I will say on that.
" Luke Chadwick was different class tonight, he showed what a good player he is and a few of them did. But it is not enough, two or three players is not good enough, we need at least eight players every week at the standard we have set. They know as a group of players, they have had a debate, we have had a debate - if that is what you want to call it. Our job now is to come out and work on it and the manager will work on it and we will all come in on Thursday and rectify that. "
" The problem tonight was we didn't have the desire to go and win the ball in the air, a hunger, a willingness to get a head on it. That is all defending is, people talk about systems and styles of play and set-pieces and how you defend them or how you don't defend them. At the end of the day defending is all about having a willingness and a desire to get hurt and go and win the football, and that wasn't there tonight.
" They never let us down but I just feel disappointed with the way we have played today. But we all take responsibility, not just the players, and I think you can always tell, I have come out here for the past two or three months and constantly defended how we have done. And we have done OK at times and we have looked at results and wondered how they have happened, tonight it was just plain and simply not good enough.
" In any normal league you would probably expect a potential promotion contender to win this game. I don't know what the other results have been tonight, we haven't really looked at anybody else, but if you look over the course of the season there have been some very strange results. I look at Brighton going to Southampton and never expecting them to get anything and they get a result.
" So, don't say never, especially in this league because there are a lot of teams that can hurt you. You look at their players that can hurt you and they are going to go to the likes of Norwich and the likes of Leeds and they will struggle from their set-pieces as well because they have got some big strong lads. But the whole top and bottom of it, that is just not good enough for Milton Keynes, it is not good enough for the fans, it is not good enough for us and it is not good enough for the players. "