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00:00Neil, emphatic 3-0 derby day win against Aldershot. Great day, must be delighted.
00:06Yeah, delighted with a win, I'd have taken a 1-0, but you know, never in my wildest dreams would I expect it to be 3-0 up after 25 minutes.
00:16So that's great and then it becomes difficult because you know they're going to come at you and you've got to try and manage the game.
00:23I thought we did that brilliantly in the second half.
00:25Yeah, you really came out of the traps and blew them away there in those first 20 minutes, didn't you?
00:30Yeah, and unlikely scorers, we pushed Tariq up to right midfield and he scored two great goals, an unlikely scorer.
00:37But we'll take it and, like I say, I thought it was a professional performance.
00:42Everything we did wrong in the first half at Maiden, we put that right today.
00:45Yeah, presumably you would have worked on that beforehand, what you wanted to do.
00:49And so you pushed Tariq up and it was a man of the match performance as well as the two goals, wasn't it?
00:53Yeah, it's great, you know, he was excellent. And there were so many, you know, fronts who run their hearts out,
00:57the energy and tempo they played with, they were a constant menace.
01:00And you need that and that's what we reminded them before the game and that's what we got in the first half.
01:05And Dan Moss as well, obviously, getting the goal as well.
01:07Yeah, unlikely, but he was causing them problems aerially from free kicks, he won a few headers
01:12and caused problems that might have led to, I think one of them led to Tariq's goal.
01:16So, you know, we're, like I said, we take goals from anywhere.
01:19We haven't scored enough this season, which is probably why we've drawn so many.
01:22But, like I say, three games, three losses in 22 and two of them to top two, pretty good.
01:28Yeah, I mean, since you've come in just for Christmas, it is only those three losses, two against Barnett and York
01:33and 56 points now, basically safe. I mean, you must sort of be proud of how the group has sort of, you know,
01:39really done across that run.
01:40Yeah, there's loads of work to be done still, you know, the owners wants to sort of push it all forward with Jodie.
01:46We're delighted we've done our part, Simon and I, on the pitch with the team.
01:51And now it's sort of trying to work towards the summer and look at what needs to do to, you know,
01:57become a team that aren't in this position certainly next year and trying to push in that top half.
02:02And in the second half, you managed the game really well, presumably at half-time, you know, at 3-0 up,
02:05you'd have thought, well, a great first half, but it can be dangerous, obviously, if you don't manage it.
02:09Yeah, that was it. If they got a goal early, 3-1, then they'd get the momentum.
02:12And it was all about making sure we had a really good structure to our shape.
02:17We got things wrong in the first 20 minutes, certainly down this, our left there, right.
02:23But once we nullified that, we kept them pretty quiet after that.
02:27Obviously, a great day for the fans today. Obviously, bragging rights, the derby.
02:31I mean, it's great to send them home happy. I mean, did you try to sort of treat it like another game
02:35or did you sort of play on that a bit?
02:36Yeah, I just tried to work on, me and Simon tried to work on what makes us a good team
02:41and what makes us a bad team. And the first half that made Ned Bruce us at our worst.
02:45So, we went through some of that and showed them us when we were at our best.
02:48Yeah.
02:49And we started as a team that's front foot and at our best.
02:52So, I'm delighted for the fans. They've been magnificent for me since I've been here.
02:56And just, you know, after the heartbreak of what happened in the semi-final and again,
03:01I don't think the team underperformed there. I think we was up against it with what happened.
03:06I think just to give them this day, let them go home and know that we're safe.
03:12And the bragging rights is pretty special.
03:15And as you say, you've got sort of plenty to work on in the summer and two games left now.
03:18And obviously, you want to finish well at home against Eastleigh on Saturday for the home fans.
03:22And presumably, you know, challenge the players to really keep going these last two games.
03:26Yeah, we've done that. We just said them in there. Now it's about mentality.
03:29Can we play like we've got two cup finals, even though we've done what we wanted to do?
03:33And that's a challenge to the boys. So, let's see what we get.
03:37So, let's see what happens.