"We shouldn't have lost that game. We didn't do enough to win but neither did they. Both teams got pretty much everything wrong tactically but we edged the ratings and the stats were very even. Unfortunately they took one of their few chances and we couldn't. It's been the same story with a few of my teams recently, but that one has really just killed off our hopes of a decent season.

"We have a team capable of challenging for the title, in fact I wouldn't swap this team for any other team in the league, but in the big games things just aren't going our way and it looks like mid-table mediocrity again."