"For me, it's not good enough; it's just not good enough.  We are the home team and in the first half, we didn't really take it to them and they just looked stronger and more physical than us.  That's where we are at the moment; we just look a little light weight.  Some players just need to stand up and be counted."

"We brought Chris O'Grady in but I couldn't play him.  There wasn't much on the bench that could change it.  I'm bitterly disappointed because now we are out of two cup competitions in a week, and to me, it seems as though I am the only one that is hurting here.  I've gone and told the players exactly the truth, and now it's for them to sort it out.  We do everything we can to help them and when they get on the pitch, it's down to them to take the responsibility."

"If you don't compete in the first half, and then you get bullied - there is nothing I can do about that.  That's a mental strength that they have to have.  Some have it and some don't.On Saturday, there was more that didn't have it. They wanted to be pretty and have the ball, look great on the ball or pass it around.  That's not League Two football.  The first thing you have to do is to compete.  We haven't."

"It looked like a 0-0.  That would have given us a second crack at them, but when things are like this at home then you are always wary that something like this is going to happen.  It was a pretty poor goal, we had the chance to make the tackle, we had the opportunity to stop the lad running but we didn't, and then when it comes into the box, their lad gets a touch and ours don't.  I'm just disappointed all round."

"We work really hard to put into place what we thought would be an idea that coming to this football club would be a really tough place to come and evidently after the last four games, it hasn't been that way.  We've been soft and I've said exactly what I thought.We've got some big players, they need to do more."

"We can hide behind the usual, like a small squad or too many games but its rubbish.  It's just mental.  We want to be a footballing team, but you can't be a footballing team unless you do the horrible stuff, and the horrible stuff is competing and being aggressive. In the first half, for at least 30 minutes - we didn't, it was too easy for them."

"I'm repeating myself from previous weeks.  At the other end we had chances and you have to take them.  It's a simple fact, you have to take your chances because one goal decides a game like that, and if it's one goal for us, then usually its game over in a game like that."

"I'm not going to say it's a crisis, but we've gone out of two cups in a week.  We can't hide behind the fact that we are seventh in the league.  I'm not happy with it.  I don't want to accept that 'it's only Bury, little Bury.  They shouldn't be at the top of the table, they shouldn't be doing well'.  It's simple, I believe we should be up there."

"Now we have to turn it around and quickly.  It's the hardest thing and when you turn things around like we have done, or we thought we had, the hardest thing is staying there.  It's really difficult and I believe that its more difficult than being at the other end in a dog fight, it's more difficult being at the top and being one of the teams that everyone says is a good team.  That's the hardest part because you have to be so mentally strong.  You have to be on it every game, you don't lose.  If you can't win, you don't lose - at the moment, we are not like that."