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" It all feels like an anti-climax and it shouldn't be. We've had a magnificent season, we're all proud of what we've achieved but everything has been set up today. But, maybe it was all set up for Ian Atkins and Torquay as well, maybe the script was written in his favour and they have got a great win.
" We knew they would be scrapping and it is disappointing the way the first-half went. I felt we started the game OK but to concede after eight or nine minutes with a great header from (Kevin) Hill, I felt we didn't have enough pressure on the ball to start with though to stop the cross coming in.
" The thing we've got to remember is that we are promoted, we're going to League One and we've got two games to finish it off, it wouldn't have been our trophy to get today anyway because Northampton have won. We've just got to pick ourselves up and go again at Rochdale, and maybe the script might be that we win it there.
" It won't give me any more satisfaction if we win it at Rochdale, I wanted to do it today but, as it happens, if we'd got three points it wouldn't have happened. We'd have still had to go to Rochdale to get a result, we'll go there, I think they've won today so maybe they are safe. We've got to go there and give it everything we've possibly got and make sure, that when we've done it properly, then we can organise something to show all these fans who've turned up here today how pleased we are with their support, how we value their support and make it a party. Whether it is in a week's time or three days time I don't even know but so long as we go and achieve what we all want. "
" I think everybody involved with the football club realises it's been a fantastic season. We've been through enough bad times here, this has been a magnificent season regardless of what happened today. Yes we are all disappointed and there is a real flat feeling, I'm a little bit annoyed with myself because we didn't really celebrate promotion last week. There was no champagne because everybody said the same thing, we want to be champions, we don't want to celebrate until we are champions.
" We've come in at the end of the game and everybody is absolutely gutted with their heads down. We've just said to them that we will be judged over 46 games, we are promoted and we've got to just lift ourselves and make sure we realise what a good thing we have done.
" We have to think the way that we want to do it on Tuesday, but if it doesn't happen on Tuesday then we want to do it on Saturday at Stockport. We will organise, we are already talking to the Football League officials, and amongst ourselves about if we do get the championship, how can we reward all our fans. It isn't going to be something that is going to cost them money, we want to show everybody what a good season it has been, and we want to just keep working to make sure we get enough to do it.
" You look at all the different things, and I'm not a superstitious person, but it's 13 games unbeaten and 13 games since we've lost at home. Ian Atkins coming back with them scrapping for their lives, maybe it was just one of those things as to why it didn't happen today. It was the manner in which the first-half went that was what disappointed us and we've got to just keep going. We've got to get that belief back that we had in the second-half where we pummelled their box and got balls in, and have been positive. We go to Rochdale, we've got to be as positive as we have been all season and go and give ourselves a chance to go and achieve a championship there. "