00:00I'm obviously going to say it's not a penalty and I believe it's not a penalty, I've been to see the referee, the referee sort of took nothing to do with it, he thought it was to do with VAR, the decision they've made, so I don't know what else I can say.
00:30Do you think that's the frustration?
00:32The frustration is, there's lots of other frustrations, we didn't play well enough on the night but the big frustration is that if anything at the second half we looked as if probably a little bit more likely than them and if we were going to get something out of it.
00:46I actually think that the referees have had a poor weekend in the opening weekend, I think there's been a lot of decisions which I don't think, and tonight's another one, I think tonight shows that the rules are supposed to be that if you keep your hands down to your side,
00:59and if anything he's actually trying to get it behind his back as well. The ball takes a deflection on flight as well, you're allowed to block it and he's leaned towards the ball so we accept that.
01:11But I just don't know what the rules are supposed to be that we would give handballs if we thought, we saw one I think on Friday night wasn't given, which looked far far clearer handball than it was tonight.
01:25Then I know it was in a different part of the pitch, I don't understand that.
01:29On the wider performance, did you think Evan deserved anything from that?
01:32No, not really, no. We improved a bit in the second half but I wasn't impressed by how we played at all.
01:38You were obviously left with a mate shift, you had to restructure the side because of, how did you come across Garner on the left, what was the support process for that?
01:48What was the support process for Garner on the left in terms of trying to deal with the loss of McIain?
01:52We had to play somebody there, didn't we? Jimmy's relatively flexible so we didn't have another choice really.
01:59How far lost was this team from where you wanted to be at this point?
02:02We've lost two of our better players who are in the back floor so that happens. Other teams will lose players at different times in the season. We've lost a couple at the start here which is a blow.
02:16Any further questions?
02:19Paul?
02:20On Jack, is he just not into my fitness?
02:26Jack's trained really well. I want to try and bring him in at the right time rather than, I don't want us to put him out there and the expectations be too high too quickly for him.
02:38I think if you look into it, I think he's very rarely played two games in a row, he's very rarely played three games in a row.
02:45So if you actually look into his history, you'll find that he's not done that. So we'll have to bring him on and we'll need to do it at the right times.
02:52Is it harder to do that?
02:58Yeah, the attack and play were desperate to get more quality. But let's be fair, it's something I think I've been saying for a while that I'm having to try and find ways of getting that better.
03:09What did they say again?
03:15No, I don't know if it was the fourth official, it wasn't the fourth official, it was somebody else who gave it. Did the linesman give it? No, the linesman didn't give it.
03:25Did he? So I said to the linesman, I don't know how the linesman could see it, so he would know, how could he see from where it would be, no chance of too fast.
03:34So I can only say it's VAR who's done it. So if VAR has made the decision, then I think it's the wrong decision.
03:41David, you mentioned you weren't particularly happy with the performance, what did the main reasons were for it?
03:49I've got to give great credit to Leeds, I thought they were incredibly intense, certainly for the first 30 minutes. We played into their hands a little bit, but I thought they came out the blocks, they were a handful for 30 minutes.
04:04And actually we defended very well at times, we knew we defended with corner kicks well when we needed to. And we got better in the second half, but not enough to warrant a well done really, but we got better.
04:18Sorry, just on the buzz, do those have a chance for the weekend?
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