Alton manager Kevin Adair post-Knaphill

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00:00Kevin, exiting the All-Sydney Cup on penalties against Nap Hill, first say a few contentious

00:08decisions from the referee today, to put it diplomatically.

00:11Disgraceful, terrible, not up to the level, spent nearly all the game in the middle of

00:16the pitch, there's been an elbow, a clear elbow that everybody in the ground has seen,

00:21everybody in the ground has seen and he's 70 yards away from it, then he's given a goal

00:26kick for something there's no players anywhere near it, it's technically probably a handball

00:29that's gone off a player, it's gone out for a corner, he's given a goal kick, it's terrible,

00:34he is not up to the level, I don't call out officials at any given point, what he's done

00:40today won the safety of people as well, there's been four head injuries, he's not even called

00:46the physio, honestly, we've played really well today, we've played really really well

00:52and do you know what, it's our own fault we haven't won the game, we should have finished

00:55our chances, but I tell you what, if they're coming here and we get punished for when we

00:59do something wrong, that needs to be looked at, because that is rubbish.

01:03Yeah and you can't let, I mean the head injuries especially, it was numerous times that people

01:07were going down and yeah.

01:09Look we've missed big chances in the first half and we can't keep coming in and going

01:13look we've been the better side and we should be scoring goals and we should be, but it's

01:17difficult to keep players at a level where they show respect when there's a bloke in

01:23the middle, he's just not, he's nowhere near the level, he's not up with play, the linesmen,

01:28the official, the other official is commenting about it, it's a worry and I'm going to say

01:32something, do something about it, people are in danger, that's no good, if that happens

01:38anywhere else, not on a football pitch, police are looking at that.

01:43And obviously you can't, it goes without saying, you can't legislate for that at all can you?

01:46And does that change the game, no, but the decision to not give the corner does and there's

01:51not a player within five yards, so it's clearly come off of them, I don't know how he's got

01:56it wrong, I'll tell you how he's got it wrong, because he's nowhere near it again, it's poor.

02:00I've got to look at the things we've done though, we've played really well, we've dominated

02:04the game for periods of time, we've probably created 10, 12 chances, we've limited them

02:08to two, we've got caught really, the goal's poor from us in terms of alright, it shouldn't

02:13have been a goal kick, but then we've got to deal with it, we've got the whole pitch

02:15to deal with it, we need to be better there, but we've asked for attitude and desire from

02:21our group, we're getting that, but now we just need clinical, you know, goals win games

02:26and we don't score enough of them, you know, we can defend really well for long periods

02:30of time and at the end of the day, we're going away and we've got another game on Tuesday

02:35when they dust themselves down and get on with it, it's another tough one, but look

02:38at the teams we're playing at the minute, first in the league, second in the league,

02:42third in the league, I think fourth in the league next week, competing, but the big moments

02:47don't go our way and it's partly down to us, but you know, there's been four, if not

02:53five big decisions in the last three games that have gone against us, are they ending

02:59up getting the result for the other team? I don't know, but listen, it's getting to

03:03the point now where somebody needs to look at it, they get assessed and sent to them,

03:07how are these people still reffing when they're clearly not able to keep up with the game?

03:15Yeah, keeping up is obviously basic really, isn't it?

03:18You can't be 70 yards away from the ball, you can't be, you're either not fit enough

03:24or you don't know how to ref, so when an incident like that happens, and if there's 200 people

03:30in there, 150 of them are looking at that going, how's that not been given? And that's

03:35people up the other end of the pitch, so they're seeing it from the other end of the pitch,

03:38so it doesn't even excuse how far away it was, because everyone still saw it. Their

03:41management team came over and said, we can see why you're so frustrated, they knew exactly

03:45what had happened, and the only bloke on the pitch that matters didn't give it.

03:50Obviously it's really frustrating and deflating right now, but you do have to take the positives

03:54of the performance and how well you did play.

03:57Players have done what they were asked to do, they've carried it out the way they needed

04:02to, but we're in the same position we were in last game, the game before that, we're

04:07not taking chances, we're creating chances, we look together as a unit, we look like we

04:13care, which is something I didn't think we had 6-7 weeks ago. All that's changed, but

04:18you can't get by on just being the better team and people patting you on the back and

04:25saying it's disappointing that the best team doesn't always win. No it doesn't. At the

04:30end of the day, you don't want to go away at the end of the season and go, you were

04:32the best team in 20 out of the 40 games, but we lost them that day. What does that matter?

04:37But we've got Tuesday now, so we need to focus on that and how we go about it, then I think

04:46we've got a bit of a break.

04:48Obviously putting the ball in the goal is cliche, it's the hardest thing, but that's

04:54just the bit that's got to find really, that clinical edge I guess.

05:00If a goal scorer, they're invaluable, teams with money will have them, of course they

05:06will. It's not for want of trying, but you need someone that has that knack of popping

05:13up in areas. Sometimes they're probably the laziest player on your team, but the way we

05:18settle and the way we play, we play with like a 4-9 at the minute and it suits us, but at

05:23the end of the day, we look fluid, we look good in the final third, we just don't look

05:28like we're going to finish.

05:29At half-time, presumably it was a good performance, but we need to get goals. Obviously they did

05:35get the goal in the second half with their own goal from the corner.

05:38You could say we scored a goal, actually more than us, pretty much some sort of way. We've

05:47got to look at it in a way that, have we done what we should be doing? Yes. Are we working

05:52hard enough? Yes. Where's the problems lie? The problems lie with goals conceded.

05:58I'm going to say there's a big contribution from the officials, which I won't normally

06:02say because I'll go away disappointed. I've been in a lot of trouble with officials over

06:06the years, but when that happens, people wonder why you're getting in trouble.

06:12Can you raise that with relevant people at all or is it not?

06:15If I lose them that, they support their own. I've been in a position where I've been tried

06:20and done for something that wasn't even me and it doesn't matter what. They sent in evidence

06:25to the FA and they turned it away. They gave me a hearing date and apparently I didn't

06:30attend it, but they didn't even send me an email. How can you argue that? You're sat

06:35in front of a computer because you've been told it's at six o'clock at night. They don't

06:37send you a link. So they run the case without you, but you've sent clear evidence that it

06:42doesn't happen. So you've made that up for yourself.

06:48Fleet now, quick turnaround, but take the positives on the performance today.

06:52Yeah, it's been a tough game. They're up there and they want to get promoted for sure.

06:58I think they played in the VARs today, so they would have had a tough game. We've had

07:01a tough game. Let's quickly get people refreshed and see how well we can get ourselves up for

07:07Tuesday. That's our job as a coach, a manager's job. Try and take away from the disappointment

07:13that we've probably experienced at the end of the day and try and say, look, just keep

07:18looking at the positives, keep working out how we can get better and how we can maintain

07:23the level that we have started reaching in the last few weeks. And then something's going

07:27to give. Something's got to break for us, but you've got to make your own luck as well

07:32at the same time. So we'll just keep poking around and we'll see.

07:36Yeah, so you've got to make your own luck, but eventually you keep doing the right things.

07:39The footballing gods will sort of turn generally, usually.

07:43You'd think so. We won't get many. And again, does it come down to relationships that I've

07:50built with officials over the years? Probably not. I may not have helped it, but at the

07:54end of the day, you've still got to do your job properly. If you're at work and you don't

07:59do your job properly, you lose your job. If I keep not getting results, I stand to lose

08:05my job. But if we're going away and going, well, the last three games you've lost have

08:08come because these decisions went against you. Yeah, but it's what it is.

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