Crawley Town skipper Charlie Barker on Peterborough United defeat

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Crawley Town lost 4-3 to Peterborough United in a thrilling game at the Broadfield Stadium. Here is captain Charlie Barker's post match interview

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00:00Charlie, thank you for joining us. It's a crazy game where we're scratching our heads

00:04thinking how we're on the wrong side of it. Can I get your thoughts on it first?

00:08Yeah, Peterborough games are always high-scoring games with the threat they've got on the top line.

00:13They are a threat going forwards. I think we dealt with it a lot better in the second half.

00:18We were a lot more compact, tougher to beat, defended better.

00:23It's just a shame we came in at half-time the way it was.

00:27I think we should have deserved to come out in front.

00:30What's the feeling like in the dressing room?

00:33Never mind the circumstances of where we find ourselves in the table,

00:37a defeat like that at any part of the season must feel pretty heartbreaking.

00:41Yeah, it does feel like a kick in the teeth now, but we've got to wake up tomorrow,

00:46forget about it and move on and go again for Saturday.

00:49We can't change it now. It is what it is.

00:52The manager's just said that there's nothing we can do about it.

00:55We just move on and take the positives from it and take it into Saturday.

01:00Yeah, and although we conceded four, there are a lot of positives as we were just chatting about outside there.

01:05Most other teams, we maybe even find ourselves freeing it up when Rush scores that goal.

01:09But because Peterborough are so fast going forward, they've got such a threat,

01:12which makes it a great game to watch as a neutral because it is quite literally end-to-end

01:16as you said, they're a basketball game.

01:18But it's just tough, isn't it? Because at this stage of the season, we need the points.

01:22But as you say, there are lots of positives that we can take into the last games.

01:26Yeah, we do need the points.

01:28We can't hide from that. If we play like that from now to the end of the season,

01:32we're going to win a lot more games than we lose.

01:34So that's the way we've got to look at it.

01:37Yeah, and obviously the gap, I don't know if you've had a chance to even check the scores yet,

01:40but obviously the gap to Bristol remains six.

01:42You know, Burton have extended their gap to us a little bit.

01:45But in some ways, it's almost like if you sort of discounting Burton,

01:49which we can't do, but from where we need to get out,

01:52it's almost like it's just this never happened.

01:53You play like that, as you say, we're going to be fine, aren't we?

01:56So it's tough to analyse, isn't it?

01:58Yeah, we can't look at the other teams around as results,

02:02but we sort of have to. It's down to us at the end of the day.

02:05If we win our games, we know we'll get out of it.

02:09But obviously we're going to have a look at everyone else's results.

02:13But at the end of the day, that doesn't affect us.

02:16It's what we do and we have to pick up the points.

02:18It doesn't matter what everyone else does.

02:20If we don't pick up the points we need.

02:23Yeah, it's tough.

02:24Obviously, we're still a relatively young team.

02:26Obviously, you find yourself captaining it as a relatively young player yourself.

02:29So just to show the fight that we're showing,

02:33a lot of respect has to go to the lads, doesn't it?

02:35Yeah, you can even see that everyone worked so hard tonight.

02:37Left everything out there. You can see at the end,

02:40we blocked about five shots in 10 seconds at the end.

02:43Everyone was desperate to win, putting their bodies on the line.

02:46Everyone's giving everything and everyone will give everything

02:49all the way to the end of the season.

02:51And I think if we have that attitude

02:53and we keep going into every game like that,

02:55then we've definitely got a chance.

02:58Seeing the performances in the last three games,

03:02there's been so much intent, so much belief in the players.

03:05And it seems like quite a marked difference from before.

03:07What has Scott done and said that has made this difference inside?

03:11He's just said, I don't think you lot believe in how good you are.

03:16And he's given us the platform.

03:17Just go show everyone how good you actually are.

03:20He said, I think we don't believe in ourselves as much as we should.

03:24And we do have the ability and we have the quality in the changing room.

03:27Just go out there and show people you can do it.

03:29I think that's shown, especially with the front boys in the last few weeks

03:32have gone out and ran riot against teams.

03:35It's given them that confidence and us at the back to just be as solid

03:39as we can and brave on the ball.

03:41And you've had quite the season.

03:43Obviously, you weren't starting at the beginning of the season.

03:45Then you've become a regular and now you're captain.

03:48I mean, how does that feel and how are you enjoying the captaincy role?

03:51Yeah, football changes fast.

03:53We all know that. A lot can change throughout a season.

03:57I've really enjoyed it, I'll be honest.

04:00I enjoy the responsibility. It's a great group of lads to lead out there.

04:04So yeah, whenever I'm asked to do it, I'm more than happy to do it.

04:07Yeah, and that was a great advert for League One football, wasn't it?

04:10Yeah, the amount of quality that was on show, some of the quality of the goals.

04:14Two very good teams, very good for the neutral.

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