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" I'm really pleased with a point. I hope I'm not wrong here in what I'm going to say but considering we had somebody on work experience in the middle of the field, I understand he's in his rookie season the guy in charge. For a top of the table clash, for that to be his second game at our level, I think he struggled a wee bit. I think it was just generally, not one major decision, but loads of decisions throughout the game.
" So I'd like to make that comparison that if that was Arsenal playing against Aston Villa, say top v seventh, and it was 14 against 11 for a large part of the game, and then for the last bit 14 against 10, I thought we were fantastic. It was just general decision making throughout the game, it just seemed that challenges in the air - exactly the same challenges but at either end of the field then different decisions were given for them.
" I thought they were quite clever on the side Carlisle, they got into him very well, I though that their players got into him very well as well. I really hope that he does have a long and successful career but I think that he needs to have a good look at that and maybe just do a bit of self-analysing.
" For the sending-off Joel Lynch over-ran the ball in the middle of the field and (Joe) Garner went in two-footed. He takes off, it's in the video, he takes off two-footed, so you could argue that that should have been a free-kick there and then, again the referee was in a good position. Then George (O'Callaghan) having seen that has probably done something that he might slightly regret, it was a reaction to the challenge from Garner.
"I can't condone the incident and I will lose him for three games now. I will just have to find a solution that will keep us flowing and keep us picking up points. It's a blow, and a slightly self-inflicted one, but I have played in games like that where your back gets up because you think that everyone is against you.
" I thought that it was two very good football sides out there and I thought that they showed a slightly more clinical edge to their game than we did maybe. Which is unusual because I think that we've been outstanding lately. Just the areas that we tried to work on on the day that we got them in on Friday in terms of trying to prepare for this game. In terms of a defensive unit, the whole side as a defensive unit wasn't quite as we wanted it to be.
" I think they caused us more problems than I was anticipating and I would have liked. We're not going to get it right every single game. At the end you have to come off and the players should have sore backs really for the amount of pats on the back that they get for coming back in such, such difficult circumstances.
" He (Nicky Forster) is just an absolute predator at the moment, he looks very, very sharp, he looks very strong and looks like he is going to score with any half-chance that he gets. I think that players that score you 20-25 goals a season give you a great chance of getting promotion. So let's hope that that is the least that he gets. "