Elgin City manager Allan Hale warned his team could miss out on the play-offs after losing at home to Stirling Albion.
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00:00Right Alan, disappointing afternoon. What was missing today?
00:04Everything. It's as simple as that. I'd like to first apologise to those sports that turned up today to watch that performance because it's not a performance that I can resonate with with this team at all.
00:16It's certainly not what we've tried to embed into the group in the time that we've been here.
00:21And look, you can get flat days and you can get bad performances.
00:25Certainly in a pitch as fiery as today, it's been dry weather all week and you can see that both teams struggled to get their foot in the ball and play.
00:33So it didn't make for a nice spectacle. But the basics of the game in terms of competing, first, second balls, carrying and attacking threat, defending a box, I just thought were really passive and lacked aggression.
00:45I don't think we covered the ground well enough at all today.
00:48And look, when you don't do these things at League Two, you'll get punished and we've been punished today.
00:53And look, I think we've took a deserved defeat and we're probably lucky it's not more.
00:56Probably a little bit of a shock to the system, given the recent results and everything, because that's not been part of the performances recently.
01:01Look, I think everyone knows that the team have got performances like that in them.
01:05We've been on a bad run earlier on and we thought ourselves that we kind of turned a little corner.
01:10I thought the last three games have been a lot more like ourselves.
01:14I thought the performance levels were certainly much more like ourselves.
01:17But yeah, look, today it's hard as a manager sometimes to put your finger on these things.
01:22If we knew the answers, then you would make the changes necessary to not allow the performance to happen.
01:27But I just thought the manner and when that second goal went in, the manner of how we accepted the defeat today,
01:33it was something that I was quite surprised about and quite concerned about, if you want me to be brutally honest.