Mike Dodds urged the fans and the team to stick together after suffering defeat at Southampton yesterday.
STICK TOGETHER
“I made the point to the lads that the fans stick with you at this football club when they see you giving everything. I think that was another display where we’ve shown that when we give 100% they’ll stick with us. At the moment it feels like there are things going against us, injuries, suspension, and we’ve got to come through it. It’s a moment where we’re all being tested as players, staff and fans, and we’ve got to stick together. I think in particular the second half, they’ve shown that we’ve still got a group that have got a huge amount of pride and willingness to run around and give everything for the football club. As long as we stick with that, eventually things will turn for us.”
POSITIVES TO TAKE
“There’s positives in terms of being 2-0 down and pulling the game back to 2-2, but we’ve also got to be realistic in the fact we lost the game 4-2, and the fact the goals were avoidable. Those are things that as the head coach I’ve got to take a level of responsibility for, the players have got to take a level of responsibility for the goals we’ve conceded. There are positives in terms of the attitude and application but ultimately we’ve got to win games of football. It’s another defeat, another opportunity which we’ve missed and we know we’ve now got seven days until the next game and we’ve got to ensure that the trend is bucked next weekend.”
BALLARD INJURY
“Dan tried his hardest obviously to carry on but unfortunately couldn’t. I don’t want to add any fuel to the fire at the moment, he’s strapped up and we’ll see where we are come Monday. It’s not ideal. At the moment we’ve got a few situations like that, a few suspensions, but we can’t feel sorry for ourselves. We’ve got to get on with it, dust ourselves down and make sure we put another really positive performance in next weekend to make sure we get back to winning ways.”
