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00:00Garen, a 2-0 defeat against the Hayes in Yeddingside, pushing for the playoffs and obviously it was the worst possible start in the opening minute, obviously falling behind wasn't it?
00:10Yeah, tough conditions but we don't help ourselves, I felt the wind had a real impact on the game.
00:17First half, like I said, first three minutes again, it's a good ball in and it's a good finish but from our point of view it's too easy.
00:26What was it, two minutes? So we've started with kickoff and mistakes and just wanting too long on the ball, we knew we wouldn't be able to play, we said don't play backwards, as soon as you get it, can we go forward?
00:38Because if you play backwards you're going to put someone under pressure because the pitch is horrendous and we just start sloppy.
00:45Like I say, the quality that they've got, you give them time to put a decent ball in they're going to do it and then if you don't mark your player properly he's going to finish it if he gets a chance.
00:54So, listen, I think they edged, well, in terms of quality they've got way more quality than we have.
01:02If I look at we got in four or five good opportunities I think without really testing the goalkeeper but we got in behind a few times, JB got in a few times,
01:11someone being a little bit more hungry to put the ball in the net with a tap in we might have got one.
01:17Would we have deserved anything out of the game? Probably not. But I did feel the second half would be just as hard for them to get out as it was for us with the wind.
01:25They didn't really, I think Jake made a good save didn't he? We didn't test their keeper second half, which was disappointing because the moments we needed to put decent balls in from set pieces we couldn't do it.
01:35Which is what they've got. Any chance to put the ball in from a set piece it's going to be decent, they're going to have people attacking it and it's something we're lacking within our squad if I'm 100% nice.
01:45So, we need things to be perfect for us to score a goal and we weren't going to do it today.
01:51Yeah, you'd have known obviously playing against the wind in the first half, it was just going to be tough wasn't it?
01:57Yeah, because it's easy to like, I didn't know how tough it was but it showed second half with them struggling, their keeper struggled to kick out.
02:06Again, he hit a couple of flat ones that were decent but anything in the air, it was going nowhere and then you're immediately under pressure but I felt we were up for the second balls more.
02:15Whether that was easier because the way the ball held up and it didn't really go anywhere and we were on the front foot might have been but I can't see a lack of energy and desire.
02:26I felt that was their second half, just lack of quality at key times and really not having much of a threat going forward.
02:34A lot of endeavour, deserved to lose based on our first half performance and giving people, you know, two goal leads which they can look at the quality of that but I'm looking at it going guard with that.
02:47It's just poor defending.
02:49Yeah, I mean it was an improvement in the second half and you'd have wanted that but as you say you can't give teams, you know, head starts can you I guess?
02:56No, well you can't give them opportunities because this is what we've struggled with at this level because the players are better and anything you give them, they're going to take it.
03:05You don't get those at a lower level, there's still good players at a lower level that are going to put the ball in the net but it might take them two or three chances.
03:13But immediately they've gone goal, 1-0 up, that's what we wanted. They didn't have to get out of any sort of gear really second half so maybe they just played the conditions and saw the game out.
03:25But I was more pleased without what we showed in the second half if I'm honest.
03:29Yeah, I mean can you obviously take those positives from the second half?
03:32That's all we can do at the minute. It's really, really tough. Every team we're playing has got something to play for which we haven't.
03:39A bit of pride but sometimes that's not enough. You need that little edge, you know, to really get something out of people and it's lacking a little bit.
03:48Like I said, there's no lack of attitude or energy or, you know, the work rate. It's just made, it is quality, it's a little bit of quality.
03:58You know, and we can't really, we can't change that now. It's up to the lads to try and bring it but it doesn't happen often enough.