Happy with a lucky point - Ronnie

Last updated : 19 April 2004 By Bigrich.....
In the post match press conference Ronnie said, " We were poor today, a win would have put us on 52 points and I feel we would have been home and dry with that, but we have to make things difficult for ourselves."

"We got the perfect start after just four minutes and we needed a second goal to kill them off, but in reality we were never at the races today, the wide men were'nt seen and we are very very lucky we havent lost the game. When you score that early you maybe can go on and with by three or four but we were fortunate to come away with a point."

Injured after 17 mins
"It was a blow to lose Phil Gilchrist so early in the game, we lost Shaun Barker in midfield who stopped them going forward and it also took away our pace to Morris and Mullin making forward runs. We brought Monkhouse on to give us a little width but got nothing, Sedgy also couldnt get in the game and when they did some of the decision making from them was bad today."

"The players think they're tired but they're not! I'm happy at this point that we got a point cos the way we performed I though we were going to lose the game. Everybody was on edge, the crowd and the players, its the first time I ever seen our side edgy like that, nobody wanted to make a mistake or give the ball away."

"I've been talking about 50 points being the safety mark, but I think your now going to be unlucky and might go down on 50 points. We're desperate for another win, we need 1 win out of 3 games, its still in our own hands, its upto what we do. If we go and perform like we did at Stoke then we can get a result at Coventry. I'm not going to say massive games no more becuase every time I say that we dont perform!.

"Phil Gilchrist's knee has locked but we're hoping he will be fit for Saturdays trip to Coventry."