Terry Skiverton Talks About The Game

Last updated : 15 October 2011 By Thetashkentterror

SkivertonGlovers boss Terry Skiverton spoke to BBC Radio Somerset after his side's 3-0 League One home defeat against Carlisle, Skiverton bemoaning the current injury situation at Huish Park :

 

"I think the decision for the first booking sort of created the whole tempo of the game, and then after that it seemed to spiral a little bit out of control for certain people. But, listen, these things happen and it is what it is, having eight players out and then picking a team and then having to end up with nine players out of your squad and playing a game with ten men against a side that is in a decent position in the league. Then they relaxed and started cutting us open and it was just too much for us in the end and they ran out worthy winners.

"They used their extra man very, very well but again it is the thing of people can't keep getting booed off, and listen, we got booed off so I have got to take that on the chin. But, they can't keep getting booed off without there being certain reasons why, and it just seems it is happening to me and the football club at the moment and we have to just stand up to that and chalk that one off and then hopefully start again.

"The lad (Flavien Belson) is French, what is the referee (Carl Berry) saying to him you know? I mean the lad has come in, it is his debut, he is worked up, the first one wasn't a booking, right after that Steve MacLean goes up for a header and the lad comes through and crashes right through the back of him, should that have been a yellow then on the balance of probability of what happened with the one before? That doesn't happen and then the cards that he gave out in the second-half, it was outrageous really.

"I think the decision spoiled the game, I think we had two chances on the break, I think Gavin Massey and Oli Johnson, they had a couple of chances. I think the positive to come out of the game, I thought Marek Stech was excellent, you could see the qualities that he has and he kept us in the game, especially early on, he came and took crosses and his kicking was good, and I thought in the defence the two centre-halves (Max Ehmer and Bondz N'Gala) stood up to the challenge well, but I think the decision ruined the game for the home supporters."

 

 

"It wasn't handall for our disallowed goal either by the way, not handball, looked it again on the video, not handball, it came off his shoulder. One thing that I will never do is that I won't get down about it, everyone always says that I am over-positive but we keep fighting, we go on, because I know these players are going to come back and we are going to be a totally different team. We have got to dog out these results, we have got to stick together and we have got to make sure that we are fighting.

"We have a man sent off and then we come back on and it doesn't help when we are trying to all be together and people are sort of using other people as scapegoats when they haven't been the worst players on the pitch. So, for us, we have got to stick together, make sure that we are getting to where we want to get to and we don't want to get cast adrift. So, we need to make sure that we will be fighting for our lives now.

"The reaction (booing of Nathan Jones) is not affecting the players, I have not even spoken to Nathan after the game, he will be coming in in a minute. So, it is just not that, it is just not the type of place, well not the type of club where I want that to happen, we had it last year when Gavin Tomlin went to take a penalty and I think he got booed for taking a penalty. So, listen, people are there and they pay their money and they are entitled to their opinions, but as I said before, we are a smaller club compared to a lot of the big guns in this league.

"We have got to stick together and that is through thick and thin, and it is easy to say that the football is not as good or this isn't as good and look for all these excuses. I could have made a hundred excuses before the game but you are not, you want to be positive, you want to come into the game and try to win the game. Things conspired against us today, we need to accept it, not get too frustrated by it, I have got to talk within the rules to make sure I don't get in trouble and we live to fight another day."