00:01Paul, out of the FA Cup with a 2-0 defeat against Sirencester.
00:05Plenty of opportunities there, hit the woodwork plenty of times,
00:08but goals are decisive and disappointing night in the end.
00:11Yeah, really disappointing. It started so well, so in control and so comfortable,
00:15pretty much for the whole half in the last 10 seconds.
00:19But silly goals, fair play to Sirencester and good luck to him.
00:24Yeah, got a head through Daz and plenty of other opportunities.
00:27I mean, the equaliser right on half-time was the first chance they had, wasn't it?
00:32Yeah, a ricochet and might come out, maybe too slow,
00:37but it's bounced and the action to read where the ball's going, non-existent,
00:41and that pretty much summed it up, especially in the final third, real brain dead.
00:46You can see where the ball's going and the desire to go and meet the ball was pretty pathetic.
00:52I mean, got in promising positions and it's just, you know, as you say,
00:56you get on the end of them, isn't it?
00:57You've got to have that sort of desire to really get there, haven't you?
01:01Yeah, you know, first half a couple of times the ball was in the box,
01:04you know, the rack looked sharp and there's a couple of opportunities in there,
01:06deflected wide a couple of times.
01:08But yeah, our threat really was Daz, you know, he looked like the one
01:11that's going to score the goals at the minute.
01:13And what was the message at half-time going into the second half?
01:17Well, it was just, you know, up the tempo, same as the first 20 minutes,
01:2125 minutes of the game where we were sharp and looking to get through them,
01:26and it was just that really.
01:28Up it, do what we did in the first 20 minutes, stop taking too many touches,
01:32and it was the total opposite.
01:34So it got worse in the second half then, sort of performance-wise?
01:38Yeah, definitely.
01:39You know, whether it was changes, taking Hutch off, which was precautionary.
01:43You know, he's a leader, he's a talker out there.
01:46But the effort, the desire to run back, you know, we were breaking,
01:50the whole team was running back.
01:53And then, you know, when they got the ball, four of us were standing up front.
01:56So, yeah, real discipline in that.
01:58I'm guessing, well, there's obviously plenty of sort of, you know, anger after the game.
02:01I guess you have to let the players know, but also balance that with,
02:04with sort of not going too hard on it, I guess, I don't know.
02:07Yeah, you know, we're in tomorrow and they're just going to run
02:11and understand what it's like to run.
02:13And then we'll go home.
02:14So we'll drag them all the way in and, yeah, we'll punish them that way
02:17because that's not good enough.
02:19Yeah, I mean, obviously, you know, standards you've set over the years,
02:22you know, you're obviously well above that, don't you?
02:23So, yeah.
02:24Yeah, well above that.
02:25You know, you understand these things happen as well.
02:27You know, in Cups, I think there's more shocks tonight,
02:29but we obviously don't want to be on the end of one.
02:32And we have good, so, you know, we've got to take it on the chin,
02:34dust ourselves down and look forward to a league campaign.
02:38Yeah, so you've got to move on now.
02:40Obviously, it's difficult at the moment,
02:41but Western Super Mario on Saturday, you know,
02:43it looks like quite a good game on paper, doesn't it?
02:45Yeah, on paper, yeah.
02:46You know, it's a good one to bounce back to.
02:48You know, you can't feel sorry for yourself too much.
02:50It's, yeah, straight back to it.
02:52Yeah, and as you say, you've got to crack on with the league now, haven't you?
02:53So, yeah.
02:54Yeah, you know, being real disappointed tonight and tomorrow,
02:57and then, yeah, we crack on.
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