00:07I'll start with Rich, if anyone else wants to jump in we can do after that.
00:10What are your thoughts on tonight?
00:13It's a pretty disastrous night for us, not the result or anything.
00:16We've gone out of the cup by the injuries, we've picked up to lose two centre-halves.
00:20We lost Rhysburg the other day, so to lose three centre-halves, that's the difficult thing.
00:26When you come up against Premier League sides now, they're different animals, they're physically strong,
00:31how they play, it's very difficult to create an upset but what we have to do is concentrate on the
00:36championship
00:37but that's really caused us an issue now.
00:43It's the same injury, he's just tried to carry on and just didn't, and that's the issue.
00:49It's him, then we lost Billy Cometo and then we obviously lost Rhysburg,
00:52because that's three centre-halves we've lost in the space of three days.
00:55So that's the disaster, it's not going out, we can talk about so many other things
00:59but we made changes because we, you know, I would have made 11 changes
01:04because this game is lovely for the fans, it's nice to test yourself
01:08but realistically it's a distraction you don't need.
01:11So was that the reason that Billy obviously was the only one that played?
01:15It's the only one because Rhysburg pulled out in training on Monday, so Billy had to play, otherwise Billy wouldn't
01:20have played.
01:21So again, knock on effect everywhere.
01:23And so you had a Brooks player, Will Manion out of the game?
01:26Yeah, Will Manion out from the other day, from the game, so we had to, we couldn't risk a goalkeeper
01:31if we lose that, you know.
01:32And that's why these games are, look, they're lovely to come and play in a nice stadium and stuff
01:37but they're a distraction we don't need, like, because it's very difficult to create an upset now with the Premier
01:43League.
01:43I mean, you look at them, they can make 11 changes or the amount of changes they make
01:46and then they're bringing on a World Cup winner, an 80 odd million pound play.
01:50It's impossible to compete with these now, you know what I mean, in terms of that.
01:54You can have a goal, you can too, but that's the difficult thing.
01:57We had about five, six academy products, I got a keeper that played with Gateshead last year.
02:02We got Nathan Nassimwe that's never made an appearance for us really in terms of, so those are the levels.
02:07But this is a game we had to get through without any injuries and that's a disaster.
02:10In terms of this, you talked about the scheduling as well of the game.
02:14Did that come, that obviously kind of lead to your thinking with the line?
02:17On Tuesday, would it have been a little bit different?
02:19Well, it might have been a little bit different, but we can't, you know, we can't moan about that.
02:23Like, you know, it's, you can't, you know, if the Premier League said I want to do it on a
02:28Wednesday and thing,
02:32we can't, you know, we don't get a say in it.
02:35Just once I was just crying about transfers, is there anything close?
02:38Well, everything's now up, everything now.
02:40Everything we were going to go for, we are not able to because we have to replace now.
02:43You know, that's disastrous today for us.
02:45I mean, absolutely disastrous.
02:47To lose two in the man-air and we don't think that they're weak.
02:51Like, as I said, it's a game we didn't need.
02:55It's a game we really, really didn't need.
02:57Because when you come up against these, these are physically, physically in another level.
03:03Like, they're some of the best players in the world.
03:05They have some of the top players they can change.
03:07It's really difficult.
03:08The romance, you know, it's nice.
03:10But for us, you know, it's a really tough night.
03:16Conscious of timing.
03:16Any other questions at all?
03:19Perfect.
03:19We finished there.
03:20Cheers, guys.
