00:08Hi Rob, the pressure is very much on the Spurs today and not very much need to win today.
00:13How did you initially start that performance?
00:16Not much in the game, I thought they edged the first half but I didn't feel under threat.
00:20I thought we had more of the second half and there was nothing really in the game.
00:26But it was in the end the way it was going to go, it was going to be a moment
00:28of magic or second phase of a set-piece,
00:31something like that that won it, which obviously proved to be the case.
00:39Of course, we bottomed the league, we just lost three in a row.
00:43It's not as easy to turn up and just beat Tottenham because they've been having a bad time.
00:46They've got a lot of good players and their motivation level is incredibly high.
00:51It might sound weird to you all, I don't know if you really fully appreciate what I'm saying.
00:56It's been really challenging this week for us, officially relegated, it's been really tough.
01:01For the players to give everything and match their intensity and match Tottenham's levels of work rate,
01:08the lads deserve a lot of credit for that.
01:10But in the end we lacked a little bit of cutting edge, which we know where we're at at the
01:15moment.
01:16So that's the situation.
01:33I hope so. I thought they were brilliant throughout the whole game, the supporters.
01:37I've not got a negative word to say about them at all.
01:39Like I said, we've lost three in a row, we're bottom of the league, we've been relegated this week.
01:42They're not going to be happy.
01:44They're not going to be happy.
01:47But what I need everyone to understand is that everyone's giving their all.
01:52Everyone is giving their all and it is going to take some time to turn this around.
01:55We're not in the middle of a transfer window now.
01:57We can't change loads.
01:59We're trying, we've improved from the last week.
02:02We looked a lot more solid today, we didn't give a lot away at all.
02:07But we are where we are.
02:09We are where we are.
02:10We're working really, really hard to try and put things right
02:12and in a few weeks' time we'll be able to action a lot of that stuff as well.
02:14In terms of sort of mending that relationship I talked about,
02:19it doesn't really make sense to say this in the press conference room,
02:21but I suppose there's more action than words.
02:22Is that fair?
02:23Because we've got a big summer coming forward.
02:25Yeah, we have.
02:26Yeah, we have and we all know that.
02:27We know that.
02:28That's no problem at the moment.
02:30Yeah, times are tough.
02:31We've got to stand up, take it.
02:34And hopefully in a year's time we're sitting in a much more positive place.
02:38You also gave Lima and Riga Gomez an opportunity for today.
02:41Was that going with an eye of your football?
02:44I was with an eye of winning the game today.
02:46They deserved it.
02:48I thought actually they performed really well.
02:50We knew we needed a lot of legs today.
02:51Tottenham run, run hard.
02:53Like I said before, their motivation level is incredibly high.
02:57Roberto De Zerbe has come in who has loads of energy and everything as well.
03:01We had to be able to match that.
03:02So with the lads that came into the team, it wasn't purely with a view of next year.
03:08It was try and win the game today.
03:10And we tried to push, you know.
03:12That was why we put Tollo on with how many minutes ago we don't want to go with another striker.
03:16We tried to push.
03:17We felt like we were in the ascendancy in that second half, which we were.
03:21But, yeah. Thank you.
03:35You can if you win four games in a row, but obviously we can't just do that, you know.
03:43There's more to it than just turning up and winning the games.
03:45We know that at the level we're at as well.
03:47So I know what you're saying and I get it, yeah.
03:50But the situation is there's four more games left and we've got to make sure that we turn up and
03:53we fight.
03:54And again, I looked around the room at the very end and went round every single one of them.
03:58There's not one there I could say gave up, didn't try.
04:01Not one of them. They gave the rule today.
04:03OK, we were lacking in one or two bits, but there was nothing in it.
04:07There was. There was nothing in the game.
04:09So, you know, it wasn't effort or anyone giving up or down in tools.
04:14We've got to make sure that we continue that for the next four games.
04:18Cheers, everyone.
04:19Oh, go on. Yeah.
04:21On Jao Gomez, there's been lots of talk about the interest in him and talking behind the scenes.
04:25Is he a player that you've resigned to losing?
04:29He'll certainly be interested in Jao, and I get it.
04:31He's a phenomenal player.
04:33But I think, again, you saw from his commitment out there today and his performance level
04:36that whatever's going on off the pitch, it won't affect him.
04:41Actually, just on that very quickly as well,
04:42it seemed quite sort of animated and violent today.
04:45As I said, I don't think it was a positive way.
04:47I had a conversation with you during the game as well.
04:49You're playing on the edge quite a bit.
04:50I thought the lads were...
04:52It's hard because people don't want to hear it after we've lost,
04:54but there were some really good performances there today
04:56and there was a real commitment from all of them.
04:57There really was.
04:58They really, really tried.
04:59They're with us, they're fighting.
05:01They really are.
05:02It's been hard this week,
05:04the final nail in the coffin, relegated.
05:09Maybe other teams would have just gone under completely today
05:11and it might have been an absolute shambles.
05:12It wasn't that.
05:13It was a proper game of football, but we've lost it,
05:16so people will say what they want to say about that, that's fine.
05:19But no, those boys that were out there today give everything.
05:23I don't know.
05:30Muy bien.
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