00:01Joined here with Bovee manager Ben Goering after a Vaz win over Brixham.
00:04Ben, start with your first thoughts on that match.
00:07My first thoughts is I'm just so pleased we got through that.
00:11I'd have loved to have been standing here now giving out all the plaudits because for 80 minutes we were
00:17fantastic.
00:18And I don't mean that in the sense that we played them off the park, but I just thought individually
00:23they all stuck to their task super, super well.
00:26We played in the right areas. We got in behind when we needed to.
00:32And then, yeah, obviously just, you know, I said at half time, we've been here several times, even against Brixham.
00:38And what I will give Brixham credit for is they don't give up.
00:41It doesn't matter if they've got players missing. They work hard for their club and their management.
00:46And we had the beers in our hands at 80 minutes.
00:51And that is just a real big lesson that we keep telling our players.
00:55The game isn't done until it's done. You've seen there, it was completely misjointed.
00:58Subs coming on in different positions, people going down injured, I'm having to come on.
01:04So, yeah, look, bitterly disappointed with the second half in particular and how we managed the scoreline.
01:10But ultimately, it's cup football. We got through and that's all that matters.
01:14You mentioned there about substitutes. Do you feel they changed the game against your favour, maybe?
01:19Yeah, it certainly didn't work for us. It certainly didn't work for us.
01:22I knew we were young today on the bench.
01:23So our starting 11 was about, not as strong as we could go, but as experienced as we could go.
01:29And then, obviously, we lost Bridger to an injury.
01:32We've then lost Balka to an injury and it did.
01:34It flipped the game. It gave them control.
01:36And they started to beat us up a little bit.
01:38They were able to go more direct.
01:39We lost a little bit of power at the top end of the pitch.
01:42He was doing really well, getting us up the pitch, winning flick-ons and we lost that.
01:47So, you know, no disrespect to Zico Kendall at all, but that's not the type of game he wants to
01:51come on into in those moments.
01:53So, yeah, the subs, not for their own fault, but it did switch the game round and it ultimately played
02:01into their hands.
02:02And with those injuries, obviously, that forced you to come on.
02:05How did you feel you got on in those few minutes?
02:07Terribly.
02:08I think I nearly shanked one.
02:10I nearly cost us at the end with giving a foul away and got booked.
02:14So, yeah, honestly, I think last Saturday I really enjoyed at Porter's Head, you know, the result, one thing.
02:19But I enjoyed putting my boots on and trying to help the team.
02:22But no, I didn't think I helped them at all.
02:23I was thrown on.
02:24No warm-up, nothing.
02:27So, and I even wore Balka's shin pads.
02:30It was just a mad 10 minutes.
02:33And like I said, we just, listen, that's us at the moment.
02:36I think last season we were poor at managing games and there's an art to it.
02:40And we just, we haven't mastered that yet.
02:42Let's just put our cards on the table.
02:44It's being streetwise.
02:46It's knowing the dark arts of the game.
02:48And we have, you know, me and Fark know them pretty well.
02:51And we have done this till we're blue in the face with these lads.
02:54But I think when they go out there, they're just, they're too honest.
02:56That's it.
02:57And yeah, we got through it today.
03:00But we know how football works.
03:01You've got to go right to the end.
03:02So happy with the win.
03:04And we'll celebrate that tonight.
03:06They say 75, 80 minutes, you're the better team.
03:08Maybe from minute 20 to 60.
03:10Plains really good football.
03:12Stand out, I would say, Josh Webber with two assists.
03:14What did you make of him today?
03:16I've said to loads of people about Josh.
03:18Even when we have our team meetings and our debriefs.
03:22Josh, the beauty of Josh is, if he's not playing well, he will give you everything.
03:26And I've said to him so many times, you know, add that, keep that quality up.
03:31And he's a massive player for us.
03:33I actually want to give credit to Jadour Lawson as well.
03:35I thought he was excellent.
03:36And the way that we set up our game plan was to get out their full backs and listen with
03:40the 3-5-2.
03:41We've got two wingers that want to get out people.
03:43So we spoke about getting a cross into the box and it took us 28 minutes.
03:47And I was screaming on the sideline, cross, cross, cross.
03:5028 minutes, Jadour Lawson doesn't look, cross into the box, 1-0.
03:54So when you've got wingers that deliver crosses into the box and you've got Baukers and you've
03:57got Oli Applins in the box, things will happen.
04:00So yeah, special mention to the pair of them.
04:01I thought Owen Stockton was magnificent again.
04:06Yeah, and I thought, listen, there's different ways that every 10 minutes is never the same
04:10in football.
04:10And for 18 minutes, we managed the game perfectly.
04:13For the last 10, we completely went away from what was needed.
04:16And that was, look, go long, hit areas, slow the game down.
04:20Win free kicks.
04:21Instead, we're doing the polar opposite.
04:22We're still trying to play.
04:24And it's just, it's a learning curve.
04:26And, you know, the penalty will drop eventually.
04:28Then lastly, what can you take from this game into a difficult month where you play the likes
04:32of Bridgewater and Nuki?
04:33We've got a very tough month going into this one.
04:37But what I've said to the boys, I think that's five wins in seven.
04:40And, you know, we haven't particularly been happy with our season when we're honest
04:44with ourselves.
04:45But listen, we have to take confidence from it.
04:47It's now what the VAR's done for our season last year alongside the league campaign was
04:52unbelievable.
04:53The town came together and it really did kick us on.
04:56So we've now reached that level again, that round again for the third time in the club's
05:01history.
05:02So again, they've got another opportunity, this group, to break records at this club and
05:05produce more history.
05:07So have to see the positives.
05:09We'll have our team night out tonight and we'll let them enjoy it.
05:13And it's the staff now.
05:15We'll get together sort of probably Monday.
05:16I need a couple of days.
05:18And then we'll pick the bones out of it.
05:19But for now, we enjoy it.
05:20Brilliant.
