Despite a great result, Alex Neil understands the importance of separating the scoreline from the performance, and admits it's time to go 'back to the drawing board'...
NOT SATISFIED
"It feels like back to drawing board for me after that. I don't want to put a dampener on a win, but I'm not taking massive satisfaction from that at all to be honest."
NO HIDING
"I've been saying over the last few weeks, what we have to do is separate performances from results. The result was excellent; the performance was extremely poor. There's no hiding away from that, the lads know it, we all know the standards we want to set and we fell well short of them in the game, however what we had to do was find a way in the second half to win the match and teams that get promoted and challenge for titles don't play well every week, but they find a way of winning the game and fortunately for us we managed to do that."
FLEETWOOD
"I think you've got to give Fleetwood a lot of credit. I saw their coaching staff there and gave them credit for what they did, the young lads who worked really hard made it difficult for us. They left our centre halves on the ball, we found it difficult to play through. We forced it when we didn't need to, and they sat in and hit us on the transition. That's exactly what I would have done if I was them, so fair play to them."
FORGET IT
"What I had to do at half time was - and I'll be honest, I didn't even talk to the players about the first half, I just told them to forget it - I said this is how we fix it and I changed the shape. It allowed us to go 3-5-2 play with wingers or wingbacks but not to play up against their full-backs which meant they had to come searching for us, and that left space in behind for our front two. We had to move the ball quicker and commit more men forward, and defend one-for-one which is a high risk strategy which was either going to work and win us the game or it was going to not work and we would get beaten by more than one goal and then there would have been a hell of a lot of noise at the end."
DECISIONS
"In the first 45 minutes they didn't reach anywhere near our standards, but me ranting and raving at half-time doesn't change that. What I need to do is try and be calm and make decisions. I was really tempted to change it before half-time and normally I probably would have, but the difficulty I have with this group of players is that it was a tactical structure thing that I needed to change and we haven't really worked long enough together for them to understand it without me getting them together as a group, so I had to wait until half-time."
RISK VS REWARD
"What I've always done wherever I've been is say that I will risk losing a game to try and win it. I do believe with the group that we've got that it will fall in our favour more often than not. We went for it because we are at a stage of the season where we understand the dynamics and what we need to do. It's not always going to work, but thankfully tonight it did."
DECISIONS
"Everybody can look at it with hindsight and say 'that was a crap decision', but I have to have foresight and see what is going to happen. That's the job of a manager. If you get it right, you might get a little bit of praise but if you get it wrong you'll get a lot of criticism - that comes with the job."
