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00:00 Brett, obviously a tough one today. You started off quite positively after going behind and
00:09 got yourselves back to 1-1, looked like you were going to go ahead but then Halston made
00:16 you suffer thereafter.
00:18 Yeah, I think we were quite pleased up until probably 5-10 minutes before half-time. I
00:24 think at that stage we had a good reaction to conceding, we had decent possession and
00:29 I think we'd given away four goals before half-time. I thought the first goal was too
00:34 easy as well from set pieces. I think our frustration with the game is we'd given too
00:37 many easy goals away. Let's not take away from them because as the game went on I thought
00:42 they got better and better and we struggled. I think the problem is we were competitive
00:47 for that 40-odd minutes. The goal just before half-time, just after a skill in the game
00:54 and a figure of step. From our point of view, we've got a lot of young players and when
00:57 we come under pressure, that told, the 418 involved today, that's difficult because you're
01:04 expecting being under pressure by an experienced side who's used to winning and unfortunately
01:09 the young lads then, we probably got pulled all over a little bit with shape. I think
01:15 we knew there was a lot of work to do. It's a new squad, we've seen over pre-season we've
01:20 had patches of good football like we did today but I'm not going to sugar-coat it, we lost
01:24 5-1 with five bad goals and if we continue to do that it will be a difficult season.
01:28 We said to the mass of the game, it's up to them if they want to knuckle down, we'll work
01:31 harder and they've got to do the same.
01:34 Sure, and at least you've got a Tuesday night game now coming up where you can try and put
01:39 things right from this opening day.
01:41 You do want the game to come straight away. I think we had five lads not here today. I
01:45 think starting in July it becomes a bit of a lottery because school teachers in the squad
01:51 are away, we've got a few young lads away as well. We'll take five out of what we've
01:55 been putting together in pre-season and bear in mind we've only had six games together.
01:59 We looked like a side that was just coming together today. When we were on top of the
02:03 game we looked like we had good shape, good discipline. As the game started to get stretched
02:08 we looked like a side that was just coming together and I think losing some experienced
02:12 players, that's not an excuse, but they would have been in the same boat as well.
02:16 We'll have four or five back on Tuesday, we'll obviously have to make some changes because
02:20 we can't accept what we did today. Hopefully the lads will go away and collect on it and
02:25 make sure there's better performance on Tuesday.
02:27 OK, well thanks very much for talking to us.