Message from Roy ...... good night all round

Dear Coxhoe Branch

A lot of it was self-inflicted. The first 20 minutes we kept it and passed it well without really creating too much.
And then we were our own worst enemies by giving the ball away cheaply and giving them lots of opportunities to score.
You can legislate for their goal, by closing the player down. If he's going to shoot from there, you try to block it, it's simple.
"He [Darren Ward] was man of the match, that says a lot; and credit to him, we could have been dead and buried.
We were leaving gaps at the back but fortunately for us Wardy was in top form and he has been recently, I have to say.
If they had got the second we probably would not have got back in it but again credit to the lads, they kept going and Stevie [Elliott] deserved a goal, I thought he was outstanding.
Maybe we have earned that. In a few of our away performances we have not really got anything, like at Norwich and Stoke, so maybe we deserved the rub of the green tonight.
When we got the goal we started having a go, but we still left gaps at the back; we seem to give every team a chance, that's just the way we are at the minute.
"Overall we have got to be more than happy with the draw."
All the best,
Roy Keane
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