Hate to say it, but we got what we deserved tonight. It was a game for rolling up the sleeves, digging deep and getting round beind the defence. There was only one team did that and it wasn't ours.
Now should be the time for fighting talk, and the manager needs to be searching for a way to lift the players for Saturday, but there are no excuses and nobody will be quick to do anything but slag off the players and likely the board. Fair enough - we all know that this kind of display isn't good enough, especially in a season where the Cup was so important when the league was already looking like a turkey.
The gaffer has no choice to say "onwards and upwards" and I belive that eventually he will achieve something here, but tonight ensured that his budget will be under pressure and keeping players, let alone recruiting new ones will be so much harder.