00:00Your overall thoughts on that one, David?
00:03Well, we weren't at our best for most of the game,
00:06but I didn't think there was a huge amount between the teams.
00:11They had it more because of their quality and the levels they've got.
00:16But when I look back at the goals,
00:17the first one I was really disappointed with,
00:19but it takes a deflection and rolls into nettle.
00:22We had covered the cup back, even though we didn't defend well.
00:27And then, obviously, the free kick bounces down and settles for Chelsea as well.
00:30So I think the run of the ball went in Chelsea's favour when it was most required.
00:37Were they better than us? Yeah, I think so.
00:38But I didn't think they were hugely better for certain periods of the game.
00:42You said beforehand it's always a tough game against Chelsea,
00:46but did you think the Harrison-Armstrong challenge was a big moment
00:49because a lot of the fans thought that was a good challenge?
00:51I've just said there is, you know,
00:53if our football in this country is going to sort of not allow them to be,
00:59then I don't know, we've got referees who we want to be the best in Europe
01:03or think they're the best because they let things go.
01:07I thought it looked like to have decent tackle.
01:09Maybe somebody might tell me wrong, different,
01:12but I wasn't sure that it was the right decision.
01:15I thought I was disappointed with the decision at the time.
01:17I've had a wee look at the Morgan Rodgers tackle on Jimmy,
01:23which, you know, maybe some might have said something different
01:26and I think that might have made it a second yellow.
01:28So it wasn't the case.
01:29Just finally from me, you were saying Christian Norgard still got a while to go,
01:33but you finally got him on the pitch today,
01:35but still a long way to go in terms of his fitness.
01:37I think everybody probably will have seen that today.
01:39And we know that, but we're trying to get him back.
01:45We're trying to get him some minutes into him.
01:47So, but yeah.
01:57You started Merlin Roll on the right-hand side today
02:00ahead of Ainsley Maitland-Niles.
02:01What was the decision-making behind starting him over Tyreek George,
02:05Brennan Johnson and Tyler Dibbling today?
02:08We actually expected, I'm going to, I don't know if his name's,
02:11if I see his name right, Spanish left-back.
02:13Chapter of Ariel.
02:14Yeah, I was going to, we actually expected him,
02:16we thought that he's attacking what was required
02:18and the person who we thought would be best to work against him
02:21would be Merlin Roll in that position.
02:23So that was the reason for that decision.
02:27As it was, when we got here, he wasn't playing.
02:30But that was the reason.
02:32But Merlin's played wide right, he's played right back,
02:34so he's done both roles for us.
02:37I thought he'd probably done better when he actually went to right-back
02:40because he got put in a couple of really good crosses for me
02:43in the second half.
02:46And also, James Garner has gone off to a slightly slower start this season
02:49than maybe some may have anticipated.
02:52We know he's suffered a growing injury over the summer,
02:55and so is there a plan to kind of manage his return?
02:58No, we have managed it, but Jimmy's pushed on really hard
03:01and got himself in the England squad.
03:04But he's still got a little bit to go to get his best levels,
03:08which he showed last year.
03:09So we're hoping that he gets back to that.
03:11He's still a little bit off it,
03:13but we want to keep pushing him,
03:15and he's a hugely important player for us.
03:17Thank you very much.
03:20Any further questions?
03:22Paddy?
03:24I'm sorry.
03:24I just wanted to ask, it was quite a feisty game,
03:27I thought, especially in the first half.
03:28I was just wondering,
03:29have your players sort of come away unscathed,
03:31and what did you make of some of the incidents?
03:33Obviously, I mean, Martinez, there was no intent to hurt him,
03:37but he's come off worse in that challenge.
03:39Well, I've just said when I was doing the TVs, etc.,
03:43I've not seen the Martinez injury yet,
03:48so I hope he's fine, I really do,
03:50and I hope I've not had the chance.
03:51I couldn't even see from the dugout,
03:53it just looked as if it was a sort of sharing ball
03:55in between a couple of people.
03:57I don't know what else happened.
04:01But yeah, it was a lively game,
04:06but there was bits of it.
04:07If you Tyler just said,
04:08we talked about the Harrison tackle,
04:09I didn't see any which was up with that.
04:11I think if it had been allowed to go,
04:12it would have kept the game going.
04:13It sort of stopped a little bit,
04:16but yeah, it's part of the game, isn't it?
04:19There wasn't much more to talk about,
04:21other than the feistiness, I don't think.
04:22There wasn't that much more in the game.
04:26Hi, David.
04:26I think it's three goals conceded just after half-time
04:29in the last five games.
04:30I wondered if you had any thoughts on why that's happening.
04:33I don't know, I hadn't thought that way, Barry.
04:36But I'm more disappointed that we lose two today
04:39than we lost two at Hull.
04:41Because that's not,
04:42and I need to look to see what,
04:44I've got an idea why it is,
04:46but it's not really like us,
04:52because if not,
04:52then we might,
04:54today we lacked any real chances
04:57or creativity at times
04:59when we,
05:00to make any,
05:00I can only really think of Tierno's head
05:02in the first half,
05:03really,
05:03for any chance.
05:05And it wasn't that overall
05:07we were played that badly.
05:10We just didn't do enough
05:12and we didn't make any chances.
05:14So it meant if we got anything wrong defensively today,
05:16we were reliable to be punished
05:18and we got a couple of things wrong.
05:20We were really unfortunate
05:21with the free kick,
05:22which could have,
05:23you know,
05:24gone bounce to our favourite,
05:25bounce to our favourite at the time,
05:26you know.
05:28OK, folks.
