00:00Paul, the 6-game unbeaten run in the league ends with a narrow 2-1 defeat against an informed Salisbury
00:06side.
00:06Thoughts on this afternoon?
00:08Yeah, I think it's one of them today. It's a frustrating afternoon.
00:12I just don't think we were at the bases, too many players off here.
00:18It's been a good run, hasn't it?
00:23Obviously you just have to look to bounce back and start a new run, won't you?
00:26Yeah, it was a strange game. We were really poor with the ball, especially around here as our own box.
00:34Keep repeating the same mistakes and the clearances were woeful.
00:38We were just invited to find it on for them.
00:41Again, a bit like Tuesday really, in terms of I don't think they really played it too much.
00:46But they were just on top of us.
00:48To the lead, Conrad Hunt with a good driving run to make that and put it on a plate for
00:53Rax.
00:54Obviously, yeah, go ahead.
00:55Yeah, we were soaking up a bit of pressure at the time and it was a great counter-attack.
00:59There were a couple of moments where we looked like we could counter and that was a good one.
01:03We finished it really well.
01:04Half-time at 1-0 up. Presumably you wanted to tidy up aspects, especially looking after the ball and that
01:10sort of thing.
01:11Yeah, just to be better on the ball and then, you know, just to work out a little bit better
01:15on their shape with the full-back.
01:17You know, coming inside with his runs is causing Toby a few problems where he had to go with him
01:22and then left us out a little bit outnumbered in the middle of the pit.
01:26Park, rather. And then when we won the ball, we couldn't get him on the ball because he was too
01:30deep.
01:30And I thought we'd come out second half and we looked at the better sideways on the front first.
01:35Yeah, it sort of came out pretty brightly at the start of the second half.
01:38You know, Bill's hung one up the header, you know, it's just gone wide.
01:42And then the big moment, you know, just before the equaliser, George is through on goal, isn't he?
01:46And obviously the keeper's done well and done well to spread himself and get the ball, isn't he?
01:49Yeah, I think, you know, that goes in. It's probably game over. There's a big chance in the game.
01:55And then 60 seconds later, you know, there's a ricochet down and it's pulled him straight to the edges.
02:01Eastside's been one in the bottom corner. And it's all that sort of just summed up the day, really.
02:06Ricochet, not at it.
02:09So, yeah, obviously that was obviously a big moment. But then we got the second.
02:13But then you obviously, you know, over history, finished strongly here and had some chances.
02:17I mean, Rax's sort of effort's hit the inside of the post and just not quite gone in, hasn't it?
02:22Yeah, we had the better chances today, like by far, but, you know, we weren't good today.
02:29Yeah, Rax is hit the post. I mean, there's one for Daz.
02:33You know, it's just one touch. He's gone through it first time.
02:35I think if he takes a touch, he squares it and Rax or George is there to tap it in.
02:41And then Miles has had one where the keeper's just whacked it onto his shin pad to see, you know,
02:45it's rolled across the goal agonisingly. But, you know, overall, I don't think we were good.
02:50No. Some news sort of in and around the last couple of days.
02:54I mean, George Alexander obviously brought him in yesterday, obviously straight in for a debut start today.
02:58One I think you've been after for a while. It's obviously pleasing to sort of get that over the line.
03:04Yeah, it's, you know, pleasing to get him in. We've chased him for quite a while and we've got him
03:09in and he almost had his big moment.
03:11But you saw, you know, every time the ball was in the box, there's movement in there.
03:15He's going to be a real asset for us.
03:17And Jordan Alves in as well and obviously came off the bench when you were sort of looking for that
03:20way back into the game.
03:21Yeah, again, you know, he had a play through season at Westfield and we sort of followed him and sort
03:27of went for him at the time.
03:28We didn't quite care. We went to Bath and he's come in again.
03:32You know, it's more new faces in the building. It's good to have him in.
03:36But, you know, the injury list is worrying.
03:39I was going to say, obviously, we've spoken about it before, haven't we?
03:42But, yeah, I mean, obviously, yeah, Spong, are you not involved today? Do you know a bit more about him
03:45now?
03:46Yeah, he's got some just some ligament pain down the outside of his left ankle rather.
03:52So, again, you see today he was a big miss. Hutch is a big miss with his hamstring.
03:57But hopefully we might have to pair back by the time of day game.
03:59Yeah, I was going to say, it's two weeks now to the Braintree game, which I'm guessing with the injuries,
04:03it could be a bit of a blessing.
04:04Yeah, it's a blessing, guys. Great timing for us.
04:08Just to reset and reassess and maybe just train, you know, five sessions now.
04:13So, yeah, that's the thing that's come away.
04:16So, yeah, so next Saturday maybe train or look for a friend leave maybe to think about or just, yeah?
04:20Yeah, no, we're trained. Yeah, so we'll have a good training session Saturday.
04:25Then, you know, we'll be in Monday, Wednesday, then Saturday.
04:27And then get ready for Braintree.
04:29And so, yeah, two week build up now and just want to kick on and start another run, presumably?
04:32Yeah, that's it. You know, we'll dust ourselves down off this one.
04:35You know, we'll take the positives that we can out of it and see where we can improve.
04:38And, yeah, we'll come back with Braintree and try and start another one.
04:42Go!
