00:01First home defeat since October, 3-1 against Bracknell, disappointing afternoon, thoughts on it all?
00:09Yeah, really disappointing, especially the last half hour for the first half.
00:15Both teams had chances, we had good chances and it was there for the taking.
00:20But once we conceded the goal, it gave them a leg up and we didn't win anything after that.
00:27In that first half, you had chances, well first minute even, Seb rattled the bar, Bobby Joe rattled the post,
00:32Owen Dean cleared off the line.
00:35As you say, in that first half, it was quite some maybes, but you had plenty in that first half
00:38to go ahead really, didn't you?
00:40Yeah, and they had a couple, they dragged one wide.
00:44We could have come in at 4-3 maybe at half time, it was that open.
00:48But yeah, second half, we didn't get going and we had some big timers in there today.
00:53And that's the third time it's happened in bigger games.
00:56You know, Bracknell away, second half today and Basingstoke.
01:00And I've seen a pattern now and yeah, that'll change.
01:03And they're sort of almost derby games really as well, aren't they?
01:05You know, Basingstoke and Bracknell as well.
01:07Yeah, yeah, it's just the desire.
01:08We did the ball away cheaply for all the goals and the desire to run back off the ball was
01:12non-existent.
01:13People think they're better than what they are and now there's a reality check coming.
01:18It's a wake up call for people obviously, isn't it?
01:20And I guess it gives you sort of two for four selection wise and all of that sort of thing.
01:24Yeah, it does, yeah.
01:25You know, they can be in there, we're tired, we've done this, we've done that, they've done that as well.
01:30There's no excuses, you've just got to take accountability for yourself.
01:33Yeah, I was going to say it's a lot of games but obviously, yeah, no excuse there.
01:36Everyone's got to play a lot of games, haven't they?
01:37I know you've been catching up but even so, you're not going to make that excuse.
01:42No, definitely not, you know, we rotate it round as well and there's some boys in there that are fresh.
01:47And yeah, it's just one of them days, you know, you've got 60 minutes, like I said, no one hit
01:50a tackle and yeah, we rolled over.
01:52Yeah, and yeah, I guess until about the end you would have wanted a sort of big finish really, wouldn't
01:56you?
01:56Just try and sort of get back into it and it just didn't quite materialise at the end there, did
01:59it?
01:59No, we got in a couple of good areas, you know, we got back into the game and then to
02:04throw the gold away like we did.
02:06There's a couple of opportunities down left-hand side, we've got good areas and yeah, we just couldn't pick a
02:11person out.
02:12I'm guessing obviously a lot of disappointment in there afterwards amongst the players.
02:15They'll obviously know and want to bounce back obviously at the first opportunity.
02:18You'd like to think so, yeah. You know, there's big players in there and they've got to show reaction and
02:23show more design than they did today.
02:25And obviously and it's a, you know, a big game sort of next really away at Scherling on Saturday, isn't
02:29it?
02:29Who are there sort of around the playoffs, so it is a big game to sort of respond in, isn't
02:33it?
02:33Yeah, it's a big week, you know, we've got Scherling and we've got a cup game, the same final on
02:37the Tuesday and another game on the Thursday.
02:39So yeah, we've got to really think about what we prioritise over the next couple of days.
02:43Obviously full focus on yourselves. One positive if you can take, other results have sort of gone for you today.
02:49You know, Scherling losing, Paul losing. I guess you can't control that but you just take it when it happens,
02:53I guess.
02:54Yeah, it's this time of season, funny results, you know, people take for granted what they've got, you know, in
02:59the playoffs
02:59or taking their foot off a little bit and teams are fighting for different things.
03:02So, yeah, it's a funny season for results and, you know, we're on the end of one as well.
03:06Yeah, and how do you sort of manage, say, really busy obviously next week, Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday that week.
03:11How do you sort of manage, obviously, a big cup semi-final and obviously the last few league games going
03:16into the playoffs, isn't it?
03:17It is, yeah. Yeah, it's just one, you know, we'll have to sit down and see who's where.
03:21Bill's come off, you know, the calf today and Bob's, you know, hamstring.
03:26So, yeah, we just have to assess it and see what we've got and then go from there.
03:31Yeah. Training this week?
03:32I just said to them, I think about it now. After that, 20 minutes, they will let us down, you
03:37know, not into tackle or running back.
03:39So, yeah, maybe we will try.
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