Yes, especially first half. For as bad as we were, we didn’t create anything and the gaps were too big, but I did think Wimbledon were excellent. They were solid, compact, a team of men. We did improve second half, which is not a great thing because it would have been hard not to improve, they have stuck together and it’s a lack of experience with the goal we’ve conceded. We switched off, allowing Joe Pigott to have a free tap-in. We regroup and go again, but the first half wasn’t good enough.
What was the gist of what you said to them at half-time?
I asked them to improve, really. Get closer, not be as deep as a back three. Too many gaps in midfield. I played in midfield and if your back three is that deep, it drives your wing-backs back and creates too much of a gap with the midfield and the gap from the midfield to the strikers, so when we get hold of the ball, we are not in positions where we can pose a threat. We just didn’t create anywhere near what I would have liked today. The free-kick at the end was a carbon copy of how Grimsby scored last week and how we lost. We decide to try something we haven’t worked on. You might ask why, but I want somebody to step up, take responsibility and say ‘I am putting this in the back of the net’. Unfortunately we didn’t have that today. They gave their all and in the second half, we slightly edged it, but I would rather have been poor and nicked
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