“Positives” to take for Bristol Rovers despite pre-season defeat

Local TV Sport

Daniel Wales reports as Bristol Rovers come up short 3-2 against Stockport County in pre-season.

Transcript

00:00for Bristol Rovers it was a defeat their first defeat of pre-season it was only of course their

00:09second game in pre-season they had beaten Chippenham Town more recently but they played

00:14Stockport County and ultimately it was a 3-2 loss and actually on the surface not perhaps the best

00:21result because they had come back from two goals down showed a lot of character to get themselves

00:25into a good position had Bristol Rovers but then ultimately lost the game right towards the end

00:30obviously going two goals down disappointed Daryl Clark and he was a bit disappointed with that

00:35start to the game and how they unfortunately shipped two goals but then obviously getting

00:39themselves back into the game as well with two goals from Luke Thomas and Ollie Dewsbury that

00:44showed real character from Bristol Rovers and showed that Daryl Clark's philosophy is coming together

00:48and also that this squad has character within it despite all the additions that they've brought

00:53into the squad so far and even though there may be questions of the squad still gelling certainly

00:57they were able to fight for each other in this circumstance but obviously then to go on and

01:01still lose the game having fought so hard to get back into it is a bit of a disappointing end to the

01:06fixture for Bristol Rovers but Daryl Clark made very clear at the end that lots of positives can be

01:12taken from this fixture despite the loss and overall they'll go into the next set of fixtures in

01:17pre-season the next set of training camps with lots to work on lots of positives as well so

01:22certainly not all is lost from their point of view with further games to come before the

01:28league two season gets underway I think Daryl Clark certainly has been happy with the overall

01:31training camp they've had in the warm weather where they've been away but there's still work

01:37to be done for them lots to be done for Bristol Rovers another thing to consider for Bristol Rovers in

01:43this pre-season will be how many more signings they will need in the transfer window they've already

01:48brought in several new players during the summer so far and getting all of those to gel ahead of

01:54the new season will be a task in itself for Daryl Clark despite the fact that he has been pleased

01:59with the work and attitude that has been put in so far but whether they need more still remains to be

02:05seen as getting all of those players to gel as mentioned will be a task for Daryl Clark but he was

02:10happy with the game yeah listen I want to win every game disappointed to lose the game at the

02:15end after we come back from 2-0 down but like you said there's there's uh there's positives come from

02:20that and a lot of things we need to need to work on yeah you mentioned previously not to reflect on

02:26last season but there are moments where you go one two goals behind and there wasn't that reaction

02:29that you saw there today yeah listen we uh we have to react you have to you have to come back come

02:35from behind to to to get points and win games you know we were 2-0 down back to 2-2 but yeah we're

02:40disappointed with the goals i mean the first goal is a touch of class obviously Ollie Norwood's got that

02:44in the locker but we're disappointed with the goals we conceded today but uh it's you know the back end

02:49of a real real tough week is a there's a lot of positives to take out of it but also a lot of work to

02:54take out of it for first off we uh we didn't look after the transitions enough didn't take care of the

03:00first pass when we won it back and didn't get as much control as of the light uh but that you know

03:06we will take that as a staff because we're at the early stages of what we're trying to curate here

03:10and work on they had a bit more possession than i'd liked but there were a couple of occasions where

03:14we have won it won it on a high press first half when we just got to slip and slide make sure it's a

03:19better pass and we get a better opportunity and then second half we we get the press right and we're

03:23ruthless on the uh on the transition and we get our two goals yeah looking at the positives more minutes

03:29for camille and promise as well after an injury hit season last time how happy are you for them

03:33yeah listen it's about building them up building them up and trying to get as many players like you

03:38said those two missed a lot of football last season and building them up to make sure that we get as

03:43many players as we possibly can fit ready for the first game of season and then the goal added assist

03:48for ollie dewsbury as well that that must feel good brilliant brilliant the young lads uh you know he's a

03:53young talented boy we have to be patient with him but uh he's his enthusiasm his drive his work

03:58great you know when we you know i've got a great coaching team now he is we're gonna we're trying

04:03to get the best out of not just ollie but every single player and uh it's nice to see obviously

04:08one of our own you know scoring it all out out here now that rounds off the trip on the pitch what what

04:13the main positives you can take for the last few days if you're going to say to me you know not just

04:20not just this week but since i since we've come in the building there's a lot of new staff changes

04:24there's a lot of different ways of how we're structuring the work that the players are not

04:28used to or are going to get used to it i just say it's been a really positive day within that within

04:34within the course of that but you know i don't kid myself as well we've still got plenty to do and

04:38and we'll uh we'll keep progressing keep working with the group

04:48you

Category

Transcript

Recommended