Barry Gray Newry City v Ards post match

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Newry City manager Barry Gray spoke last night following his side’s 4-1 defeat at home to Ards. He discussed what has been going wrong of late and the pressure he is facing as manager.

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00:00Yep, very obviously another tough defeat. Just want to get the thoughts on tonight's game

00:04Yeah

00:06It's

00:08It's it's a hammer. It's a scoreline hammer

00:12started game very well

00:14to

00:15terrible goals to concede

00:17Changed the complexion of the game out the second half. We make a fist of it

00:22I'm fairly confident at that point that we can

00:25Do something in the remainder of the game when we go down to 10 men?

00:30Finishes the competition and leaves the players to left on the pitch at that point

00:35hugely exposed

00:36We often we puff and we make the best of what we can at that stage

00:41And inevitably at this level, you know when you go down to 10 men the scorelines not in your favor that

00:47You're not going to get out the other side with anything. So that's the way I panned out

00:54It's very much a case of what we've seen a lot now we don't make excuses

01:00Performances, we're lots of players short tonight

01:04And again the 10 months

01:06Scenarios frustrating for me as manager and it's not the finger point any individual player

01:12Collectively you can see the confidence is really low

01:15We're trying our damnedest in the background to try and pick that up, but we keep losing senior players

01:21We keep losing players to injury and unavailability tonight

01:25And

01:27Just when you need everyone and you need everyone to come together and be together and give it all in our pets on the pitch

01:35We're lacking in that

01:37Lots of young players tonight young Arsene Koeman 20 years old just turned 20 coming in the team tonight first time first time and

01:44Very difficult circumstances was outstanding and that's that's that's a bright spark for some, you know

01:51Having it right back. There's a coming on young players

01:55We really need to see our senior players there and see us manage through games and see can we be a wee bit more

02:01Stealing, but it's frustrating

02:04Fans tonight frustrated

02:07Naturally, but brilliant at the end still have the appetite to applaud largely

02:13Applaud players and staff and myself off the pitch in very tough circumstances tough as it is for us and the players

02:19it's it's even tougher when you're sitting on the other side with no controller to

02:24To do anything on the pitch. So

02:26We share the frustrations and we appreciate their frustrations

02:30And we know from their point of view that it looks tough and it feels tough

02:37But there's no other way out of this

02:39without just

02:41working as hard as we possibly can to get our senior players back fit and on the pitch and

02:46I'm trying to get a win because at this minute in time, it looks a long way off

02:50That's just the reality of it and the fans spectators will back me on that but

02:57We need to stay focused and players

02:59Particularly need to stay focused and concentrate in the next game and see can we can we break the mold?

03:05Look, it's probably a very broad question

03:07But over the run of form that you're on already put that down to you

03:11Can you put your finger on what exactly is going wrong? Yeah, listen, we've was 13 new players brought in the summer

03:17To one reason or another a lot of them players came from levels

03:22of inexperience younger players

03:25players that have never played senior football before and

03:28Coupled with our own senior players that are in the squad

03:32We haven't had our seniors players available to all of you available for one single game this season so far

03:38Again, these aren't excuses, but they're they're factors that we need to consider

03:44We're relying on a lot of them young and inexperienced players

03:48To perform like experienced players and not having enough experienced players around them

03:53And we know in football when the mood goes low. We started the season relatively well

03:59Results didn't go away

04:00But performance levels was we're we're quite high and quite good and then as confidence starts to drop and that's very much related

04:08to

04:10Availability of the players have been here before and the fact that results go against us

04:14So every team every club

04:16Then aren't winning games we can make out go through the same factors and we're no different than that

04:20and the only way out the other side is

04:24To stay together and stay focused and and keep trying to root towards a one direction

04:29Look, it's just an uncomfortable question, but you're not naive

04:32You know how football works is there pressure sort of mounting on on yourself and the other coaches? Of course there is

04:39My job is to deliver results

04:42And to push Newry back to Premiership or to challenge to go back to Premiership next year that hasn't gone away

04:49We're ten games in now

04:51We're sitting at the wrong side of the table

04:54Performance levels have dropped so and listen

04:59my best wishes

05:00if the Newry board decide that I'm the man to continue with and move forward and I hope to do that because I think

05:07me and the rest of staff have a lot to offer moving forward, but

05:12It's what's best for Newry and I'm I don't make decisions and what's best for Newry as a club just for us as a team

05:18so

05:21The rubbish rumours the players inside are massively behind me as a manager

05:25I can't fault them for that not in any way shape or form

05:29And the board and the committee here and and the spectators largely behind the scenes have been supportive

05:37I know we've had our

05:38moments and our groans and our grunts and I

05:42Appreciate that it's a results-based game

05:45And if the club decide that the best course of action is to change the manager, then I won't challenge that

05:51I'm very privileged to be Newry manager and I'll continue to be privileged to be Newry manager and I'll work my damnedest

05:58regardless of whether we have one minute left here or whether it's the rest of the season and

06:05And that's not a defeatist attitude

06:08Like you say it's a statement of fact

06:10I know the situation of senior football have been here before and I know that when results don't go your way

06:16The first person that gets looked at is the manager and unfortunately for me. I'm in that hot seat

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