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Maurice Malpas

I THOUGHT it was an even game but it became a game of set pieces. We gave free-kicks away that we're struggling to defend, and obviously they scored two goals from it.

All the goals we seem to lose at the moment are from set pieces. It's something we've got to put right.

We've just got to keep on working at it. It's that simple - we've got to keep working and working and working and working until we stop giving silly free-kicks away and silly goals from free-kicks.

It's not like I can just flick a switch and everything will be okay, because I believe it was happening long before I came here.

It's something we've got to work on and improve, and for us to start winning games and become a better team, we need to defend better and put the ball in the back of the net at the other end.

I thought box-to-box we were fine but we are letting ourselves down at either end of the pitch.

I feel as if every week teams are playing us now for set pieces and at the moment they are winning.

Both teams didn't really look like scoring in the second half. You would win the ball, a couple of passes and then it's either a poor ball in the box or a ball given away when you get into a good position.

You can put it down to the conditions a little bit, but the final ball into the box has got to improve if we're going to start scoring goals.

I thought for 20-25 minutes we dominated. They changed their system and they started to dominate a little bit.

One thing that annoyed me was that it was a multi-ball game, and then suddenly when they went 2-1 up there was only one ball in play.

The ball went into the stand once and we had to wait for it to come back. That was a bit underhand and a bit naughty, and it's something I will be complaining about.

There were a couple of tackles which they reacted quite badly to I thought, but that's part and parcel of the game.

You try to wind each other up and the players up but I'm very disappointed about the multi-ball thing.

There's not much time before the Southend game so we'll just get them going again and it's important that we take our box-to-box form into the game and tidy up at both ends of the pitch - start scoring more goals and stop conceding easy free-kicks.

9:55am Monday 24th March 2008

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