Aldershot Town manager Tommy Widdrington post-Boston United

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00:00Tommy, a late sucker punch tonight with Boston scoring the winner in stoppage time to win 2-1.

00:07A competitive game against a direct Boston side, thoughts on that?

00:11Exactly what you just said there, we just didn't manage to topple them by scoring another goal

00:17because I thought another goal would have done that but fair play to them, they stuck at it.

00:21They got their goal as they probably thought they would in terms of long throw, dropped around and poked in.

00:26They've hit us with a counter attack right at the death when we were probably a little lacking in our discipline at the back.

00:34It's disappointing to lose the game but we just push it to one side and move on to the next one like we normally do.

00:40And obviously with the busy schedule you've had and the efforts put in on Saturday,

00:47you obviously had to make some changes tonight but are you pleased with people who came in?

00:50I think there's a lot of positives to be added.

00:52It's good to get minutes into Olly Bray from the first start for a while for him.

00:58Keane Anderson obviously as well getting a few more minutes.

01:01Kai Corbett, James Henry even getting more minutes into him.

01:05There are positives to take from the game.

01:07It's just, as other people found at the weekend, when the game is taken away from you right at the end of the game,

01:13it just feels worse. That's what it does and it's not a nice feeling.

01:17So we've got to try and get that out of our system as quick as we can and bounce back onto the training ground on Thursday morning

01:23and be positive in the way we think, where we plan and the way we attack the game at York on Saturday.

01:29Obviously that late sack of punch always does hurt but with the good run you've been on,

01:34confidence will still be good in the group, won't it?

01:37I hope so. There's no way in the world a loss, I think that's three in about 14 games or something like that.

01:44We're not going to worry about losing a football match, you know, that's in the rules that you can lose.

01:49It's how you lose and the lads will be disappointed.

01:52I know the staff are disappointed because one or two of them have aired their views

01:57but we win together, we lose together, it's as simple as that.

02:01We've got to move on as quickly as we can, there's a game in three or four days.

02:04Thankfully now that's it in terms of Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday but the schedule doesn't get much easier

02:09and that is, what is it now, it's Saturday, Friday, Monday.

02:13So yeah, it's been a tough gig for the players and for the staff.

02:18There's a lot of work behind the scenes going on in the prep, you know, in the diligence of looking at other teams

02:24but that's what we're in the job for so, you know, we go again on Thursday.

02:28And it's been a sort of thick and fast run and a competitive Boston side, you have to sort of match them

02:35and you know, you did match the intensity with them, you know, you went with them

02:39and got the lead just before half-time through Tyler Frost and so yeah, what were sort of the thoughts at half-time there?

02:44Well, we knew it was going to be the same second half, they weren't going to change the way they played, they had the slope.

02:49So we knew they were going to put it at us and we just had to hope that we saw out the first 10-15 minutes of the second half,

02:56which we did do, then we had our little spells ourselves, but we just didn't manage to get that second goal

03:01before they managed to get an equaliser and that sometimes is the turning, you know, the momentum to shift if you like.

03:08In fairness to their lads, they got more attacking as the game went on with the substitutes that they made

03:14because they have to win the game, probably in their eyes.

03:18Well, if they want to win the game, it's not, you know, our life doesn't depend on me at this moment in time.

03:23So, like I said, we've been punched in the nose today, after punching somebody else in the nose the other day.

03:30Yeah, so it literally flips within 70 hours, doesn't it?

03:33Yeah, that's football.

03:34And so, yeah, we grew up on Thursday and then a long trip to York, but obviously tour of duty,

03:39so, you know, a big day for the fans and look to get back on the horse there.

03:43Yeah, they've got a couple of nice away days to look forward to, to be honest with you.

03:47You know, going to York and then going to...

03:50Woking.

03:51And then, and Barnet.

03:52So, from that point of view, you know, there's three big fixtures away from home,

03:55but we've still got two at all.

03:57We all get, you know, a really good crowd here because obviously everybody will, by then,

04:02will be, you know, getting themselves ready for the big idea right at the end of the season.

04:06But, as I said, going into the semi-final, you know, we try best we can to be putting that to the back burner

04:12and just concentrate on the next game.

04:14Like I said, we take the bloody nose today and we move on as quickly as we can.

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