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Saturday, January 31, 2009

GT: "Way Short Of The Requirements"

"We were way short of the requirements for first division football." That was a simple summary of the game from Graham Turner, speaking to BBC H&W's Keith Hall.

"(I'm) upset about the level of performance and about the work we've put into it. It's been unusual this season where we've complained about the way we've worked. Generally we've put ourselves into a game and worked very hard and in a lot of games, particularly away from home, we've played reasonably well. But today we were short, way short, of the requirements for first division football.

"Why that has taken place I don't know. I think there was a bit of upset about the pitch, the state of it to start with, and then we concede a goal -20, 30 seconds - where it was laughable. After that we looked as though we might get into it but, unfortunately, they outplayed us and outworked us.

"It's one of those days that you have to take stock, look where you can change it for Tuesday against Carlisle, thankful we've got another game coming up fairly quickly so we can forget all about this one. It's not humiliation, but it's certainly not far off."

When asked about Karl Broadhurst's substitution, Turner added "We've got to think about what we do at the game on Tuesday, maybe that's a pointer." adding that Sam Gwynne was firmly in his thoughts for Tuesday.

Turner reiterated his hopes for new faces: "Over the last 48 hours we've lined up two players to come, agreements with their clubs, we had one club send the forms over to us signed just waiting for the player to agree. Then, just as we're booking him into a hotel he phoned us to tell us he's signed for a Championship club. The other we had agreement with, bigger clubs got wind of it and he's finished up at a bigger and higher up the table team than us.

"There is one almost definitely signed. He's going into his club over the weekend to sign and will join us on the way up to Carlisle."