Mike Dodds gave an honest assessment of the team's performance after today's defeat in Bristol.
FIFTEEN MINUTES OF MADNESS
“I think the disappointing thing for me was the 15 minute spell of madness where they got caught up in the emotion of the game and don’t manage the momentum of the game well enough. It’s ultimately cost us the game. We can sit here and talk about referee decisions or how many chances we created, the reality is we lost the game 1-0. I’m really disappointed but we’ve got to dust ourselves off. There’s lot of the performance that I liked, but there were also elements of the performance I was really disappointed with.”
FIRST HALF
“Second half was how we should have set up from the first whistle. (In the first half) I thought we were laboured, slow in possession, allowed them to get a press on our backline. My frustration at half time with the players was that there was nothing happening in the game which I didn’t say would happen. There’s nothing in the game we haven't prepared for, it’s just your ability to move the ball quicker and with a little bit more tempo, a little bit more desire to get the ball wide and forwards quicker.”
SECOND HALF IMPROVED
“Lo and behold, we do that in the second half and completely dominate the game! I looked at the clock on the 70th minute and that was the first time they got in our half. So I’m really frustrated and gutted for the group, because I know how hard they’ve worked in the last two weeks. We came here like we do every single game to come and win the game.”
FANS
“I just want to thank the fans who turned up, they were in great voice as they always are. This is almost like an apology because that 15 minutes in the first half has cost us three points.”
