Barry Gray post match Dundela v Newry City

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Newry City manager Barry Gray spoke to us after his side lost 1-0 away to Dundela.

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00:00Barry, obviously opening day defeat, how do you reflect on the game?

00:04Yeah, listen, we're disappointed obviously. Didn't get the win that we wanted today.

00:09But that's just it. That's what we didn't get.

00:13The game in the second half turned into a game that was probably very little football led.

00:19That's what happens in championship times.

00:23But we're not too down on ourselves.

00:29I think we were a bit 1-0 today by taking it.

00:32So we only had two opportunities across the 90 minutes.

00:35We had lots of half opportunities ourselves and two really good chances in the second half.

00:40In the mix of it, little in the day.

00:43Can we be better? Yeah, absolutely.

00:46But not at this stage.

00:48We're not too tired of ourselves or anything like that.

00:51So just focus on a good base training and I'm excited.

00:55Can you take that bit of sadness that you weren't a better team over the 90 minutes?

00:59Can you take that as a positive and say that there are things this opening day that going forward you can be happy with?

01:03Yeah, absolutely. I'm disappointed with the scoreline. That's it.

01:07There's lots of things and areas and opportunities today where we've seen things that we know we can be better at.

01:13But there's also lots of things today that was on display at times.

01:17Maybe not for as long as we would like that we would be very happy about.

01:21That's the start of seasons and sometimes you need to rebuild a lot and the ball will fall to you at the right time.

01:26We needed a goal at a particular time in the game today and we didn't get it.

01:30And that left it very easy for Dundella to hang on and grind out for what they needed.

01:36Which was their win.

01:38But nothing too deep.

01:40Not going any further than what we are.

01:42The way we are today, scoreline wise, lots of things happened and happened well.

01:47And we focus on rebuilding for next week.

01:50You had a number of debutants out there today. Do you feel like their squad is floating well?

01:54Yeah, we don't like to come out after opening day.

01:59They talk about the amount of new players we have in.

02:02The age band of the players dropping considerably.

02:05Lots of players that have never experienced a championship game before.

02:08We've had that today and it's no excuse.

02:12But it's part of where we are at this moment in time.

02:14We had to rebuild after last season.

02:17We've done that and today's performance is part of the stepping stone to get us to where we need to be.

02:22And I have no doubt that we will get there.

02:24There's no problems, no panic in my point of view.

02:26Last question for me, you have a home game next week.

02:29Simple as getting back on the horse and going at it again and trying to pick up your first win of the season.

02:33We're back to show grounds.

02:35Bigger pitch.

02:37Flat surface.

02:39And a wee bit more space than what we would be used to.

02:44We obviously train there and we work there very well.

02:49Boys have 90 minutes of proper match time under their belt today.

02:52It's the first time this season.

02:54We're expecting a lot more from ourselves next Saturday.

02:59And listen, the opposition is tough week in, week out.

03:02But we're confident that after today's showing that we can build on that during the weekend and pick up a win next Saturday.

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