BBM: WE WERE NAIVE AND TOO MANY NEEDLESS FOULS

Brian Barry-Murphy:


“We have to understand if we create as many chances we did today, then hopefully we're going to take them.

But if we don’t, we have to be super clean in how we defend. In the second half, there were a lot of fouls from our perspective that weren’t good. We want to be aggressive and on the front foot, but it’s not an excuse to give needless or reckless fouls. It took a lot of momentum away from the game.

Even when Callum scored a good goal and the supporters were amazing behind us, I was really keen to get another opportunity to enter the box and put Bradford under pressure.

But we were quite naïve and allowed Bradford to take the sting out of the game. It’s important for us to understand how to chase the game when we are there.

We created some really clear-cut chances. The opportunities we had were really clear, but we didn’t take them.

If you don’t take those chances in a game of this magnitude, you’re reliant on being watertight at the back, and from front to back we didn’t defend well enough.

In possession we were good, and we created some clear chances. Dave Turnbull was in a great position (to score), Rubin (Colwill) chipped to the back post for Cian Ashford, Yousef (Salech) had a really good header. But you also have to give credit to them – they defended their box really well.”

Just watched the press conference and other things BBM said:


Dylan Lawlor got through training fine but decided he wasn't fit enough to play this game. Not a serious injury.

Robertson and Mafico were available but just not selected.