00:00Joined here with Buckland manager Matt Cusack after a home win over Shepton Mallet.
00:05Matt, start your initial thoughts on that one.
00:08Rollercoaster of a game. I thought we were fortuitous to be one up at half-time.
00:14I didn't really think either side deserved to go into the half-time interval with a lead.
00:18Obviously, we got a penalty right on half-time. I thought it was a soft one,
00:22but then last week I thought we should have had one and didn't get one. So sometimes you get them,
00:25sometimes you don't. But we'll take it. So we've gone in 1-0 to the good. I thought we were
00:31quite
00:31slow, uncharacteristically slow starting the second half. We normally start second halves really well,
00:37and we didn't do that. In that passage of time, they managed to score twice. Disappointed with
00:47the equaliser in particular that made it 1-1 because we could have been scoring ourselves,
00:54but we didn't do well enough in the final third. And then we didn't lock the shaping well enough
00:59behind the ball, and they hit us in a transition, and 10 seconds later we're picking out of our net.
01:04And that's a disappointing thing because we highlighted that they've got a bit of quality
01:10about them, particularly with the pace out wide and in transition. So lapses and concentration have
01:15cost us there. And obviously, we get a knock to Ben Carter, our captain. He didn't look like he could
01:23go on. He had a bit of a dead leg. And with them, you're thinking, right, can he run it
01:26off?
01:26It was one of those that he couldn't. And it was actually his man, I think, that ran off him.
01:31So we had to make the change there to get carts off and get fresh legs on.
01:35But that was like 2-1. And then it goes from bad to worse. Charlie Madden gets a straight red
01:41card.
01:41And so at 2-1, down to 10 men, you're just taking your captain off. It looks like a real
01:47sort of uphill battle from there, if you will. But I have to be real, to give the highest praise
01:54now to
01:54my team. Because at 2-1, we've just come off the back of two defeats. We could have chucked in
02:00the
02:00towel. But that isn't this group. And that's not the character that I demand of my players. So yeah,
02:06I've got to really praise them because to not only to get it back to 2-2, but to then
02:11go on and get a
02:12third and to actually win the game 3-2 with 10 men from being 2-1 down is amazing. So
02:19full credit to the
02:20players that were on the field of play still and also those that came from the substitutes bench
02:24to play their contribution. You mentioned there your thoughts on the penalty. Are you happy that
02:29the red card was correct? I'd need to watch it back. It seemed very high up on the pitch.
02:35But yeah, I'd need to watch it back at the stage. You mentioned previously about obviously coming off
02:40the back of two defeats, a particularly different one last weekend against Salt Ash. Whilst the result is
02:46bouncing back from that, do you feel like the performance was a good response from that defeat?
02:50Yeah, we did things better today. Last week, we were caught napping really from about minute
02:5610 onwards. We had a mad sort of 25-30 minute spell where we conceded four goals, which can happen
03:01at any level of football. So I was never going to see that side of us again today because we
03:07make
03:08those demands of the players. So we certainly saw a better response. It was just that period after
03:15half time, where we normally are really good and on the front foot, we weren't today. But I have to
03:21give full credit to the team of how we finished with 10 men. That was absolutely immense. I can't
03:27remember the last time I saw that, a team going down to 10 men and then going on to win
03:32the game
03:32from a losing position. Lastly, did you see any standout performance? Obviously, Jack Baxter amongst the
03:39goals as well. Yeah, I thought he was quiet by his own standards, but he's been
03:45out for a while, obviously been suspended. But what a period of about 10 minutes for him where
03:50he scored what ended up to be the second and third goals of the winning goal. And the free
03:56kick to win it is one to save us. So yeah, he's absolutely delighted with his impact in the final
04:02third and I said to him at half time and a couple of them, they're going to hurt the game
04:06in the final
04:06third when we have them facing forwards up on the edge of the area of the opponent's box. That's where
04:11they're going to do the damage. And we didn't do enough of that first half, getting our attacking
04:14players into the right areas of the pitch where they can really hurt the game. And he showed what
04:19he can do when he is in those positions and he did that second half.
04:21Okay.
