Paul Heckingbottom post-QPR

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00:00The red light woke the place up, didn't it?

00:02It shakes the ground when the fans get behind them,

00:04it's been drifting towards the draw, how did you feel?

00:06Well, listen, I was hoping, of course you want three, but yeah, 100%.

00:11Of course, you smell blood then, don't you?

00:14It's a good stadium, it's close, it's tight.

00:16Being here before them, both occasions when, you know,

00:20because that away end can get jammed as well and it can be really rocking.

00:22So, yeah, it can create a really good atmosphere here, but yeah,

00:27their first goal sort of lit it up a little bit,

00:29but then we managed that, we managed it through.

00:34Yeah, and then the red card ignites the atmosphere of the fans again.

00:39And like I say, you can smell blood, especially when,

00:41if you're on a centre-forward and you're seeing Elliot centre-back,

00:43do you know what I mean, and the other areas of the pitch where...

00:46Yeah, it was tough and I would have been delighted if we'd have seen it through.

00:50Yeah, you made your second sub quite quick,

00:51did you just want to force the issue a bit more and attack your sub?

00:55Yeah, and Jack was struggling, so...

00:57Yeah, Jack was struggling, so it was an easy one.

01:00Jordan could go in and do Jack's job, Kane dropped back,

01:03deal with Saito, Dwayne a bit higher.

01:06So, yeah, we'll have to see how Jack is after that, so, yeah.

01:08I said lots of things happened today which we could do without,

01:11and we'll have to deal with the repercussions of it

01:14and see injuries, obviously suspensions now, things like that.

01:18We'll have to deal with those.

01:19Would you not put this in the same bracket as Millwall and Portsmouth,

01:21because you said you liked the energy and the aggression...

01:23Yeah, we committed, we competed, we competed.

01:27Yeah, it was scrappy at times because of how tenacious both teams were

01:30competing for the ball.

01:33Yeah, yeah, it's what you have to do away from home,

01:36you've got to come away from home and be second best in lots of areas

01:39and pick up points, and we want to create that habit.

01:41And it would have been a good start today.

01:43Like I said, that's why I'm so disappointed with Matt

01:45and the decision he made, because, yeah, really handicapped us.