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"I've watched the DVD from the Grimsby game and my thoughts at the time haven't changed.  It's the goals.  You can't give teams a two goal start and then hope to win games.  At the moment, that's what we are doing.  We just can't seem to stop conceding goals.  If they are great goals, then fair enough, you hold your hand up and say so.  If somebody puts it in the top corner from 30 yards or it's a great move, then fine, but they are not like that, they are pretty poor goals - mistakes - that could have been dealt with."

"You can fix mistakes on the training ground and we are trying our best to do that.  I'm not sure if this is the mental attitude problem I mentioned a few weeks ago.  We have played a lot of games recently and there may be a touch of tiredness in there, and that's one reason why we are trying to freshen the squad by bringing players in.  Hopefully that will kick the players back into it."

"It's not as though we are playing particularly poorly, we are just conceding poor goals.  If we address that, then we will be ok.  We just need something to build from and as I have said many times, the strikers that we do have good quality at the top end of the pitch.  Whether it's the strikers or the wide players, they will score eventually."

"If you concede goals, you lose games - so that's the biggest problem for me at the moment.  If we don't score, we might get a draw and pick up a point.  The idea is not to concede and you never know, you might sneak one, but at the moment, we are giving goals away too easily."

"It's just how it is at the moment, everybody goes through a patch.  It's not as if the strikers are not having chances. They are having the chances.  Hursty came on the other day and just missed the two best chances.  On another day, they both go in and it's a 2-2 draw.  It's just how it is; you have to show faith and belief in the strikers because you know their records, they are quality players.  Every striker has a barren spell; unfortunately, all ours are having theirs at the same time."

"That's how it is; you can't do anything about it.  We are not a club that can go out and get someone by spending loads of money, so we have to work really hard with what we've got and put faith in them and I do.  I know what they've got.  They have good talent and given a chance, eventually they will hit the target."

"We are two points of a promotion spot, it's surprising.  The league is wide open and you look at the teams that you think are going to run away with it - the Shrewsbury's and the Bradford's and they are not running away with it.  They are probably in the same position as we are.  I watched Shrewsbury the other night; they were 2-0 up and conceded two poor goals to make it 2-2.  I've said it before, you need to draw it you can't win, just don't lose.  Every point is a point closer to the target that we want."

"If we had picked up three points with three draws, we'd be in the top three now.  It's as simple as that - we have to stop losing games.  We've had a good reaction from the lads in training; they were excellent on Tuesday and again in Thursday.  They have been pretty good from day one.  Its football, that's how it is.  It's not all roses and it doesn't matter who you are.  Look at Mark Hughes at the moment.  He's got all that money and all that squad - yet he is losing games, it's just how it is.  I'm sure that he believes his team will turn it around as I do, you just keep going and put faith in your team."

"Reaction from the fans hasn't been the best at times.  We all hate losing games, me no more than anybody else.  If we were bottom of the league, I could understand it, but we are not.  We were fourth from top in one game, yet we got booed off at half time.  The young players go in the dressing room and it affects them.  We can all say that it doesn't, but it does, you know deep down that it does.  You want them to play with some sort of freedom and all of a sudden the pressure is on.  There is enough pressure anyway because we have done so well to get where we are.  Staying there is enough pressure; you just don't need it from anywhere else.  That's just how it is."