Paul Heckingbottom post-Birmingham City

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00:00The one decision that you're most frustrated with, or just the building?

00:02None of those should happen, should they? None of those should happen.

00:05Did you think that Dobbin one, did that field one, was going to get given?

00:08To be fair, that's the one I couldn't see properly from the other side.

00:12I could see without reacting to players, but because he's hooked his arm,

00:15I'm that side, so I couldn't see the hook, do you know what I mean?

00:17So, yeah, I've had any talk about him.

00:23Wasn't offside, was it, their goal? Not seen that back, have you?

00:26I've seen the goal, but yeah, he's just on board, he puts it in with his arm.

00:28Was there a conscious effort to cross tonight more than you've done in recent games, or not?

00:33Getting it in at every opportunity?

00:35Yeah, we try to be that team anyway, but it depends where the space is and where we break from.

00:42So, when Andy's playing and Adele's playing,

00:45they're not going to be players who are going to come in and link in inside,

00:47do you know what I mean? They're going to be on the outside.

00:49We had Smudgy and Jebo, we wanted his midfielders making the box.

00:52We did that, Ali maybe took one off Smudgy in the first half.

00:55So, yeah, we want to be that.

00:58And when you're forcing them back, it tends to be the space that's wide.

01:04And as the game then wears on, you want the ball in the box quicker and faster.

01:07And it's like I said, I said to the players, if you're having 13, 14 shots in the box,

01:15we'll look at ourself and the type of finish.

01:19But the keepers made some saves, but they made a lot of blocks, you know, we didn't get a lot of fault.

01:23But then the more I thought about it and the more I was looking at the incidents,

01:28the players won the game because sometimes it's your pressure and the energy

01:32and the desire to go and win the game forces the errors and we force three penalties there.

01:37So, referee gives the right decisions there.

01:42It's 3-0 to us, you know.

01:46But we can't, we won't let that affect us.

01:52We need to deal with that in a different way.

01:53Did you expect Birmingham to drop as deep as they did or did you make it?

01:56We did.

01:57You see how they started.

01:58They start, they want to pass the ball.

01:59One or two things we got wrong in how we went after them.

02:04Yeah.

02:06We were a good side today again and I enjoyed watching us play.

02:10I enjoyed the energy of us.

02:11I enjoyed...

02:12I should be talking here again when, I think it was Charlton, was it?

02:17The last time we were here, Charlton.

02:18And Dan's not had a save to make.

02:20It's exactly the same today.

02:21It's arguably a better performance.

02:24We know why we didn't win.

02:25Are you finding your team selections harder than me?

02:27There are so many options for you.

02:29Yeah.

02:30It's hard, but it's better because then you know from the bench or...

02:34Yeah, it takes some thinking about.

02:38But I'd much rather have it that way.

02:40Much, much rather have it that way.

02:42And we can keep energy, can keep freshness.

02:46I felt we started the second half brilliant and got on top again early

02:50and we were really pushing.

02:54But then when Thierry came on left, we could play that little bit higher

02:56because we were that advanced.

02:57Same with Alfie for Ali.

03:01And I felt we got a little bit more again.

03:04And then at the end with Lewis, he basically played right wing back,

03:08but right wing for us because Adele was there earlier.

03:10So it's a lot better to have those type of options, if you like,

03:16to bring on and I challenge the players before the game for us to be making subs

03:22when we're winning today.

03:24And again, I can't say that they've got that wrong

03:27because we should have been winning when we're making the subs.

03:29Yeah, there's nothing you can do with officials.

03:32You can't go in, have a conversation and say what we really want.

03:34I said to the staff, managing myself at half time, I said to Bobby the fourth,

03:38I said, it's pointless.

03:39You can't speak to them.

03:40Because the problem is once they know, and they've suffered from this so many times,

03:45once you've proved them wrong, and you've got them in a corner,

03:50they just send you off.

03:52That's it.

03:54It's pointless.

03:55Pointless.

03:56Pointless.

03:57So I'm done speaking to them, but we have to have them on the pitch.

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