Darren Mullen Newry City v H&W Welders post match

Newry City boss Darren Mullen spoke to us after his side drew 2-2 at home to H&W Welders.

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00:00Clarence, 2-0 draw, how do you reflect on that game?

00:04Probably a fair enough result at the end. Disappointing obviously not to see it out

00:09when you're 1-0 up and then 2-1. But I think overall probably the draw was a fair enough

00:13result. It's a good test of character for the lads. Two or four weeks ago, can they

00:19see it out? Maybe not. We've tried to lift the spirits and get them to work that wee

00:25bit harder. I think today you could see that, especially towards the end of the game.

00:28Probably a change of formation, 3-4-3 playing at wing-backs. How do you feel like that worked?

00:33It was actually 3-5-2.

00:353-5-2, ok. Whatever you want to call it.

00:37Look, it's just a numbers game. It ends up a different thing. We tried something different

00:43to be honest. Last week I thought we were left exposed in certain areas. When you're

00:47making a mistake, there were too many gaps. So we just tried something different. I thought

00:51we could have been a wee bit better in terms of going forward in that shape. But we just

00:56needed to be solid. It's good for the lads that we can be flexible. That could well change

01:00next week. Back to a flat back four, we just thought today it suited us better. I thought

01:06we managed it well. Probably the oldest back down in the Irish League this week in terms

01:10of the back three. But I thought the lads were very good.

01:12That's good. Did you have that with you have players like Ford and Stephen Ball who can

01:15stretch and play wide and get balls in the backs?

01:17Yeah, we switched that towards the end of the game last week in the Ballyclare game.

01:23It wasn't a 3-1 game. We created a lot of chances, just didn't take them. Again, today

01:27you're looking at a game we should have been 2-0 up in the first five minutes. You've not

01:30taken chances and you're hoping that doesn't come back to bite you. But thankfully Ryan

01:35got us two goals.

01:36And of course towards the end they were putting a bit of pressure on Wilders. Some big saves

01:40from Conor Mitchell. Were you happy with his contribution?

01:42Yeah, it did well. Mitch did well. A wee bit of a blip last week. But he's been terrific

01:47since they've come in. And they all did. Look, this is a tough league. Ireland will

01:54be one of the favourites. They're up there. We're down the bottom of it and fighting.

01:58We shouldn't be but we are. So yeah, I think it's a good point for us. It gives us a wee

02:03bit of a platform now to push on. That's five games in now and with two games at home we're

02:08unbeaten. What we wanted to do when we came into the start was to make sure we weren't

02:11getting beaten at home and that's 2-2. We haven't unbeaten.

02:14And in terms of just the squad depth, you're obviously still missing a couple of players.

02:17Do you see players coming back in in the next few weeks?

02:20It's difficult because we lost Fra in the warm-up. We always have maybe one back and

02:26one out. So yeah, we're still missing players, lads, to come back in. At this stage you're

02:31looking as well into the transfer window in January to try and get players in. So yeah,

02:37I'd like to have a full squad at the minute but it is what it is. I'll not grumble about

02:41it. Everybody's the same. We just need to deal with what we have and thankfully the

02:44lads today have played and stuck up.