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" Frustrated, disappointed and angry, all of them. It is a game where we should have come away with three points, it would have made our task a whole lot easier. We have just gifted two points away and the job is going to be very difficult and we face a tough game now on Monday (at Huddersfield), which we should have been going to with three points under our belt today, it is as simple as that.
" We have talked about chances before, in the Hereford game when people said that we were awful I have never seen chances missed like it, and today has been exactly the same. The ball is flying across the front of the goal and people are getting on the end of it, the keeper (Shane Supple) is making saves, they are making blocks.
" I don't know, we seem to be shooting ourselves in the foot, we have created all that, we need a second goal obviously and then the game opens up, we can relax a little bit and we go on and win the game handsomely. We don't get it and then their equalising goal for me is just a really, really poor goal and gives us all a bit of disappointment. It is about both ends of the field, we keep saying this time and time again, we have got to do better at both ends of the pitch and we haven't done it again today and we have got punished.
" Their goal is ridiculous, I don't know what happens to the wall, it is the far side of the wall that seems to have broken, why it has broken I don't know. Obviously the wall is covering one side of the goal, if it gets bent in over the top of it or around it then you accept it but it was going straight through the middle of it, and that is really disappointing. "
" We have a job to do now though, we have got to lift the thing up, it is probably totally opposite to last week where the players are down, the dressing-room is low, but we don't have time to dwell on that. We have got to get ourselves picked up and raise a performance for Huddersfield Town on Monday.
" Ultimately you take all the criticism and the responsibility and I am big enough and brave enough to do that. I will get some flak again today I suppose but it is disappointing when you have set the thing up right, we have created enough chances in the game and to concede a goal like that, you think well how much blame should you take?
" Well I shoulder responsibility good and bad and I will do that again. I don't want to point the finger at individuals, as a team we have conceded one and we have only scored one and that is not good enough in the game today because we needed another one. It is the old clean sheet scenario isn't it, really we should have one today but we haven't and I have to take responsibility for that, that is what comes with the territory.
" We will have to see what happens on Monday before we think about the Swindon game. If Swindon get beat tomorrow or whatever on Monday then it becomes, the whole thing is just going to take its course isn't it. It is going to go right to the wire by the looks of it now, we haven't given ourselves that little bit of a cushion and breathing space today by the result. So we go on Monday under a bit of scrutiny and a bit of pressure but we have to respond to that, we have to be able to cope with that and we have to deal with it. "
" We are carrying a little bit of injuries, Joe Anyinsah wasn't quite right and he has tweaked his hamstring. I think that he is going to be a big doubt for Monday but apart from that we managed to get the same eleven on the pitch, which was nice. I am not so sure that we can do that on Monday but Huddersfield might be in the same position as well come their time.
" We just have to get on with it though, injuries are injuries and with the games in close periods of time that happens and we have to deal with that. The problem that we have got at the minute is that the squad isn't as deep as it could be, it has been weakened already and we can't carry too many more.
" Graham Kavanagh came off because I just felt that we needed legs in there. Kav has got to play and go again on Monday and we thought that Lummy (Chris Lumsdon) could come in there and do a nice job for us and keep things tight, which he did do. That was purely just a tactical decision.
" The next win would have come here today if we had been a little bit tougher and not conceded the goal like we have. It will come on Monday though let's hope and if it doesn't come on Monday then it has to come next Saturday. I can't tell you when it is going to come because I can't predict what might happen but we have to roll our sleeves up and get on with it again on Monday and try to do our best to get something out of the game. "
" It looked a penalty from where I was, he (Daniel Jones) was all over Clevo (Cleveland Taylor), whether it was or not I don't know, it looked a cast-iron penalty from down there. Whether it is or it isn't we deserve a little bit of luck don't we, we have not had much luck and the sending-off is probably that bit of luck that we needed. Whether it was the right or wrong decision I don't know but it was certainly one that we take and we should have capitalised on, but we didn't.
" I thought that we ended the first-half quite well, just before the sending-off and the penalty we just got a little bit of a head of steam up and that gave us our best period of the first-half. I thought that we started the game quite sloppy, quite slow and we got into it as the half went on.
" I just said at half-time to make sure that we come out of the traps, be clinical, be ruthless, make sure that we convert the chances that come our way, which they undoubtedly will, but we didn't. We said not to concede too many set-pieces as that will be the way that they might get back into the game, and as it proved it was.
" I am not bothered whether the next win comes on Monday or it comes next Saturday but it has to come somewhere. Our home form, we haven't been as strong at home as we would like to be, nowhere near, but that is something that is there, again it is something that we have got to deal with. Probably things are stacked against us now but we have got to be resilient and brave and strong and come out fighting.
" Relying on other results is the situation that we have created for ourselves and we have got to work off that. They will be in on Sunday and then the lads that need baths and cool-downs tomorrow will be doing that. They will be looking after themselves and then we try to prepare a team on Sunday for the game on Monday. "
Meanwhile before the match Abbott had commented :
" I don't see any game as a must-win, at the minute it is not a must-win, it is a need to win, want to win, but I am not going to heap any more pressure on than is necessary. We want to win big-time, it is one that we think we can. If we don't win this one then we have got to win, or we must try to win the one on Monday, and if we don't win that one then we must try to win the one next week. So I don't want to down-talk anything but I think that we don't want to heap any extra pressure on than there already is.
" There is a situation that needs some serious concern and this is the first match of a big period for us. The next seven days we have three games and it would be lovely to be sitting here a week on Monday with seven points in the bag at the minimum. If we get more than that then that would probably tell us that we are out of danger for this season and that we can kick on. "