Raymond Byrne Newry City v Newington post-match

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Newry City assistant manager Raymond Byrne filled in for media duties on Friday night, and whilst he admitted that the team’s 1-0 loss to Newington was a poor result, he says that 'everybody is still up for the challenge' of avoiding relegation with 11 league games to go.

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00:00So obviously a disappointing night tonight, I just want to get your thoughts on the game.

00:04Yeah, disappointing for everybody. We trained well last two weeks and prepared really well

00:10for the game and the energy before the game was really good, but we're on the pitch and

00:15it was flat, so everybody's really disappointed, but we have to move on very quickly.

00:21It was probably the lack of chances in terms of forcing the New England goalkeeper to have

00:25to make saves, was that the biggest disappointment on the night?

00:28Well it was, we had one big chance the first half and Alex had a second chance, could have

00:34done a little bit better, didn't hit the target, but every week we are having chances, we're

00:40just not taking them and when you don't take the chances and there's a bit of a soccer

00:44punch on the other end of the pitch, it's killing us. So the second half we had another

00:49chance, young Casey who came on and done really well, young fella on loan, but we just

00:57need to be a wee bit more clinical in front of goal on both ends of the pitch.

01:03And it felt, you can make an argument your goalkeeper Lorcan Danley was the man of the

01:06match, he made some super saves, but whilst that's a positive, is it a worry the fact

01:10that New England did create so many chances?

01:12Well, we've replaced probably about half a dozen of senior squad members with about

01:19five or six of young lads on loan that have signed late teenage years, so Lorcan's one

01:27of them and he's done super, he's getting plenty of first team football down here, plenty

01:32of experience, so we've replaced a lot of senior lads with a lot of young lads, so it's

01:38still working with them and getting them plenty of experience and working hard with

01:43them week in, week out.

01:45Look, obviously a disappointing result tonight because there's still 11 games left in the

01:48league, what's the message to the players going forward after this result?

01:52Well, the message is we'll be back in Tuesday night, we have to regroup, we'll have a chat

01:57and we look to kick on again. As you say, there's still 11 games to go, 33 points in

02:02play, so there's so much to play for in this league still, it's been disappointing so far,

02:07but it's not how you start the league, it's how you finish the league, so as you say,

02:12we've still 33 points to play for, everybody's still up for this challenge here.

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