Bury Town boss Cole Skuse on frustrating 1-1 home draw with Cambridge City

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Bury Town manager Cole Skuse gives his dugout reflections to sports editor Russell Claydon on  a 1-1 home draw with Cambridge City which saw his title-chasing side concede an equaliser in the 96th minute at Ram Meadow.

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00:00Cole, obviously a late twist against your side here with that late goal that you conceded.

00:09Did you feel it was coming or what was your view of the game?

00:11No, my view of the game is you cannot be that dominant for a 90-minute spell. I say 90 minutes,

00:20that's slightly unfair on them. They probably had a 5-6-minute spell towards the latter

00:24part of the game, which you will do if you're chasing. We've dangled a little carrot at

00:28the very, very end of the game because I'd love to have stats on today's fixture. I'd

00:33love to have stats, not from a possession standpoint, but if you want to use modern

00:40terminology like final third entries and clear-cut chances. I don't think you can pass up as

00:49many as we did and then be overly frustrated and angry after with the outcome of conceding

00:57a late goal, if that makes sense in any way, shape or form. You cannot miss as many as

01:02we did. When I say miss, clear, cut chance. This isn't individualised towards the two

01:08boys that played at the top because it wasn't them in the slightest. They don't get involved

01:12in a couple of chances, but as a collective, as a group, I would probably be doing an incredibly

01:21good job. If I was to say we missed 15 clear-cut chances within their 18-yard box, I think

01:31I'd still be being kind. To concede in a manner in which we concede, which is avoidable. Individual

01:37mistakes happen in football, I get it. My elements of frustration are towards the, I'm

01:42not going to say negligence, but let's just say the missed chances in the top end of the

01:48pitch have ultimately undone us today.

01:51Yes, and some not-nice scenes at the end as well. Obviously, they're celebrating that

01:58equaliser and things have spilled over a little bit.

02:02Yes, of course. I get it. Celebrating a goal in the last minute of a game, absolutely fine.

02:08You celebrate your goal, you celebrate your goal on the pitch, done. Never an issue. But

02:15then for members of their staff, and I say their staff because I know all our staff are

02:19in the changing room listening to a talk that we're having, you get members of their staff

02:24and you can hear it. We're blessed in the sense that our changing rooms aren't massive,

02:29the walls are paper-thin, you can hear Ney on everything. To hear some of the stuff that

02:33some of our fellas are shouting, it really sours your taste. To be involved with, it's

02:40not to beat around the bush. There's guys that sit behind the dugout in the main stand

02:44that have been coming for a long, long time and they're of a mature age, they don't need

02:50to be shouted at in the manner in which they're shouted at. I'm coming across like it's slightly

02:56sour, not in the slightest. But to hear the stuff that you're hearing and for them to

03:01be acting the way they're acting, it's not my position to put them down, I'm not with

03:04members of staff. I'm not too keen on all that, to be honest.

03:10Back-to-back home games, you will have gone into these games today and then Tilbury at

03:17home next Saturday, thinking a real chance to get a good points return on the board.

03:24So obviously the biggest feeling must be frustration that you mentioned having not done it today.

03:30Yeah, not so much with the result because there's going to be loads of twists and turns

03:32in the latter part of the season, there always is. It's more with, like I said, the manner

03:39that they have some really, really good stuff, really good stuff within the game. Bottom

03:42end of the pitch, tremendous. Charlie, really, really good. Back three, incredibly good.

03:49Mid-part of the pitch, we played some real good stuff. To progress like we did in the

03:54smooth manner in which we did to get to the top end of the pitch, really, really good.

03:59Then that little bit of care where you get all the best players in the world that earn

04:04all the best money in the world because they have got that sort of fire and ice. They can

04:07play at a real, real tempo, but as soon as they get to that top end, they're so cold

04:10and so cold and composed. We didn't have it today. So that's where my frustration is.

04:15I'm not worried about the... Of course, it would have been lovely to pick up the three

04:18points and keep us right in that sort of mess at the top end of the table, but that's...

04:24It will be there or thereabouts coming into the season. It's going to be incredibly tight.

04:27There will be points dropped everywhere as there was today. So we'll see.

04:32OK, thanks very much.

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