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" It’s disappointing but we didn’t deserve anything today, I think we have got to be honest about that. We started the game very well, I thought for the first-half, well up until their penalty, we started very well and we were definitely the better side and then we stopped doing the things we had been doing.
" We stopped putting the ball in behind, anybody who was here today can see the state that the pitch is in – it wasn’t a day for pretty football or for taking chances. We’d got ourselves into a position though where we could pass the ball, we got into good areas and then when we got into the final third and good areas we let ourselves down with the quality and didn’t put the right balls in.
" It’s disappointing, I might be clutching at straws here but I don’t know how the referee can’t send their goalkeeper off. I find it really hard to understand what the rule is there when Karl (Hawley) is going through, knocks it past the keeper and gets brought down. How he’s not the last man and denied a goal scoring opportunity I don’t really know.
" Maybe that might have made a difference in the game. I know I said I might be clutching at straws and I’m not making excuses but they (referees) just baffle you sometimes with decisions and we let ourselves down after that. "
" I thought both of theirs were definitely penalties. I thought we didn’t defend it properly, the first one we allowed their striker to make a run across the box and we haven’t tracked him. When a referee has given a penalty, and we got away a couple of times before he gave that one, you know that if you dangle your leg out and somebody goes over you know that he is going to give it. It was a silly challenge, both decisions were silly challenges, there is no need for it and we’ve been done by it.
" The thing that we’ve got to do is we’ve got to make sure that we don’t get screwed up about this now. We knew we were going to lose at some stage, you are dreaming if you think you are going to win every game between now and the end of the season. We knew we were going to lose at some point, it’s the manner in which we’ve lost today and the way we defended.
"I’ve said to the players in there that very rarely this season have I had to go in and pick them about the way that they have defended, today was one of those days and as a team we weren’t right today. If you are going to be a top side then you have to come to places like this and roll your sleeves up, you’ve got to work hard, you’ve got to pressure, you’ve got to do the right things and defend properly. You’ve got to be ruthless at the other end whether it’s in the final ball or whether it’s in the finish and today we haven’t.
" Zigor (Aranalde) had to go, it’s two yellow cards. I think the second one was a little bit harsh, it’s a tackle from behind and after the referee’s decision to not send the goalkeeper off you’d think maybe he’d have had a little bit of common sense and just spoken to him. If he’s decided that’s what it is though then he has got to go and we’ve got do without Zigor now for the game at Boston.
" We’ve got to get back on track now at Boston, that’s what we’ve said in there. We’ve not come here today and performed and we’ve got a great opportunity to go and put it right. The things that we did wrong today we’ve got to get out of our system and make sure we go there on Wednesday night and put on a performance in difficult surroundings, but if we’re right against them we can start ourselves going again."