"We started strongly but it seems it wasn't to be, we didn't play well and going down to ten men didn't help our cause but we were all ready a goal down by then, to a pretty poor goal and we never really recovered."

"In the second half we changed the shape with being down to ten men and went to 4-2-3.  We huffed and puffed without really getting back into the game."

"The referee has said that Ryan Lowe used the elbow, I don't know - I didn't see it.  The referee was the only person in the ground that saw it, everybody else didn't see anything but the referee thought he saw something and decided to show a straight red.  I've not spoken to Ryan about it yet so we will leave it there for now."

"We had chances, just before Ryan was sent off he had a shot that hit the post and came back across goal but we just can't put it in the net.  It's a difficult time for everybody but I thought the supporters were fantastic again today, they got right behind the team when they needed to, and right now we do - we need them.  We are not playing particularly well at the moment and this is the time that we need that support."

"We put Tom Elliott on the field on Tuesday night and he made an impact, he did the same against Macclesfield on Saturday, he made that impact.  He looks like the Tom Elliott that we had earlier in the season.  He's definitely a contender to start, that's what you want - we put people on the pitch to make an impact and to make us think."

"Unfortunately we lost Stephen Dawson on Thursday with a family bereavement so he's back in Ireland for the funeral, there's not much you can do about that."

"The good thing is that we are still third but if we continue to play like that, we will not stay third.  We need to quickly re-group, get organised and be a lot more focussed.  It doesn't matter who you play, the two goals that we conceded were pretty poor.  The first one was a poor one, the second from a set piece kills the game at 0-2 when you have ten men."

"We've got ten games left - we might as well go for it, this is a great chance for us to go up but we have to play better than this.  We had a tough spell at the start of the season but we came through it, we have to do it again.  It doesn't matter who you are, you have tough spells and this is one."

"Fortunately this is our first loss, we haven't lost but we need to start winning games pretty soon otherwise the teams below us will be catching us.  Whilst we are not doing great, the results from teams around us are also not doing great.  Chesterfield lost 5-0 at home; it's unbelievable they have been solid at the back.  You don't think they are going to concede but it happens.  There have been some freak results but ours wasn't.  Macclesfield deserved their win, we didn't do enough - its as simple as that."