00:00 Scott, thank you for joining us. Obviously a frustrating result here at the Bournemouth Stadium, but can I start by getting your reflection of the game?
00:07 Yeah, lack of conviction to win a game for me. I thought that we were passive and didn't play with the energy that we have been playing with.
00:17 I thought that we were not aggressive enough in the final third and their first goal was just really poor defending.
00:32 We had him trapped on the side of the pitch, three players around him, but we allowed him to get through and get round and score a goal from a really tight angle.
00:42 Really, really poor defending. But in general, we didn't have enough conviction.
00:49 We looked as if it was a missed opportunity for me, a big missed opportunity, especially after looking at the results.
00:56 A lot of teams around us lost and drawn and we didn't take our opportunity to really nail our position today.
01:04 So, disappointed with that. But yeah, we just didn't have nowhere near enough conviction. We had chances to make chances and we had chances to score and we were just fluffy.
01:19 We were nice at the top of the pitch, not aggressive enough, just fluffy.
01:22 Is that what you put it down to? Being too nice, you say about the conviction. Just being too nice, was it a lack of belief?
01:29 No disrespect to Doncaster, but if we're in, like I said, they're a good side, right? No disrespect to them.
01:38 This is not me being disrespectful to them because I would never do that.
01:41 But I feel this, given the season we've had and given the position that we're in, if we're serious about getting promoted or serious about being in the playoffs, then we have to win this game today.
01:53 And that was a pressure that I put on the players, but we have to. And players at this level of football need to play under that kind of pressure.
02:00 And it felt to me as if we played with no conviction. A big part of the game plan was Doncaster have conceded more than 50% of their goals since the turn of the year on crosses, putting the ball in the box.
02:16 We put three crosses in, in the first 20 minutes of the game. Three. Are we trying to win this game or not?
02:22 So for me, nowhere near aggressive enough within our play.
02:26 It's very rare that we've come, especially at home, we come away from a game having not scored. We seem to be scoring lots of goals this season.
02:33 And do you think if we'd scored early on, we'd go on to win this game? Is that another thing that perhaps would have given the lads a lot more confidence, do you think?
02:40 Yeah, but if me auntie had wheels, she'd be a shopping trolley.
02:48 There's no point talking about ifs, buts and maybes. What's if we'd have scored? But we didn't score.
02:54 And I said to the boys at half-time, if we don't score, it's going to be a hard graft for the defenders.
03:02 Because all the time it's 0-0, you can feel, because they've got good quality at the top of the pitch, you can see with their goal.
03:10 He's a good player, the kid who plays wide left. And all the time it's 0-0, you can see something dropping for them.
03:17 So don't make it 0-0 for long, go on score please. But we're kind of fluffy at the top of the pitch, too nice.
03:24 We've got opportunities to bounce back from this, we're obviously straight back in action on Monday.
03:30 I suppose the message to the players is we can't perform like that again because we'll be coming away with nothing.
03:35 And very quickly, as you say, these hopes of getting promoted are going to be sliding away from us.
03:40 So how do you approach the next few days with the group?
03:43 We have to recover first and foremost and regroup.
03:51 And probably debrief it. But we can't play in that manner.
03:57 We've got to try and finish teams off. And we didn't today.
04:03 At the end, I played with seven forwards at the end.
04:08 Why are we going out of control football? Because we're chasing a deficit and we're out of control.
04:15 We played with three forwards in Adam Campbell, Dan Orsi and Lolas.
04:21 And we played with two number 10s in Rawls and Liam Kelly.
04:26 And we played with two really high wingers in Kellan and Nick Cirulla.
04:31 So we played with seven up front in the end because we're chasing a deficit.
04:35 But we can't be playing out of control football like that because we don't do our job properly in the first half.
04:40 Like I say, first 20 minutes we put three crosses in the box. How are we supposed to win a game?
04:44 We're too nice. We're too nice and we've got to be more aggressive.
