Alton manager Kevin Adair post-Hillingdon Borough

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00:00 Kevin, 3-1 win tonight in the cup against Hillingdon Borough, two goals late on from

00:06 Perry Coles, but fair to say the amount of chances it could have been, job done a bit

00:11 earlier tonight, but I suppose you just have to keep going.

00:14 Yeah, for sure. Look, it was one of them where we didn't play that well and still probably

00:20 created 15, 20 chances. Didn't take enough of them obviously in the first half. Conceded

00:27 a bit of a sloppy goal, but do what we normally do when we go behind, we stay in the game.

00:34 Got one back, come in at half-time and it was, again, sometimes we have choice half-time

00:38 talks, but today was just about a realisation thing to say you're better than that lad,

00:43 so you just need to just stay patient, keep working and a chance will fall that we take

00:50 and that's what happened. If I could have asked for someone to vault her, it probably

00:55 was him. So, yeah, we'll take it, win another round, then next round the cup and move on.

01:02 Yeah, and obviously keeps a good run going now, eight wins in ten now, in all competitions.

01:08 Yeah, eight wins in ten, didn't keep a number clean sheet, which is a shame, but obviously

01:13 you can't keep doing that at this level. They came here, they were on the front foot, they

01:19 were probably more aggressive than us and they deserved to be in level at least, if

01:25 not ahead. But then I think as the game wore on, you saw that they were sort of desperate

01:30 to just try and stay in the game and it was probably only a matter of time, I mean, as

01:35 they made a couple of changes and it wasn't because people weren't playing well, it was

01:39 just a case of freshening things up and we did that and obviously it worked. Jack got

01:44 an assist as well and then Ross made his debut.

01:47 And obviously it wasn't the ideal start, obviously just an uncharacteristic error there with

01:52 the under-hit back pass. Those things happen.

01:55 Yeah, look, there's too much experience in our side for us to be looking at that and

02:00 going, 'is that a problem?' It's just one of those things that wasn't good enough in

02:04 the moment, but they happen. It's how you recover from that and we recovered from it.

02:11 Yeah, Scott obviously got the equaliser just before half-time, good time to score obviously.

02:16 I know you weren't so happy with the first-half performance, but obviously a good time to

02:20 get that level.

02:21 As I said, go one behind, stay in the game. Don't make it two goals, don't give yourself

02:27 too big a man to climb. I would have accepted coming in at 1-0 down to be honest and then

02:31 I would probably have looked to change a couple of things, but we got one and we didn't need

02:36 to.

02:37 Good impact off the bench from Jack Fowler when he came on?

02:39 Yeah, good impact from Jack. We do have the luxury now of having a squad where we can

02:44 make changes and people do make a difference, but again, hopefully we've not picked up

02:49 any more serious injuries tonight as a couple of that and another couple of knocks.

02:52 So hopefully they're not too bad.

02:54 Just too early obviously to know really how they are.

02:57 Thoughts now on Sandhurst on Saturday?

03:00 Yeah, it's going to be tough. They've had some exciting games. We've not watched them

03:06 and obviously we're working out what we've got personnel-wise before we work out how

03:11 we're going to play. So, we're worried about other teams. It's not really a thing for us

03:14 again at the minute, but we'll go into it positive. Good run of form and playing not

03:20 very well and still winning by two goals has got to be a positive.

03:23 That'd be a pleasure.

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