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NEIL PRE PLAY-OFFS

Dan Neil has revealed the dressing room's reaction to their flat defeat at Oxford and says he's still confident that the Lads will be able to flick the switch and turn up when it really matters. At this point in the season, he emphasises that the main thing is for everyone to stick together and give everything in the play-offs.


NO COMPLACENCY

"The last few performances haven't clicked, and we understand that we aren't good enough as a team that we can just turn it on and off. We understand that. But I will say that there's no complacency, we give our absolute all in training everyday. We've given away two sloppy goals from set pieces (vs Oxford) which needs to be looked at because we can't do that in the play-offs, that's going to kill us from the get go."


STILL CONFIDENT

"We know within the squad we haven't become a bad team overnight and we've got to do everything in our power over the next few weeks to get back to the level I know we can reach."


UNSETTLED XI

"We've chopped and changed over the last few weeks. You look at Enzo for example, he's come back from injury and he's been in and out as he builds his fitness. I was obviously not in the team on Monday, Dennis is just coming back from injury. It's not easy to build that cohesion, we haven't really been able to have a stable starting XI out probably since February whereas at the start of the year we had that. The triangles on the side of the pitch were dead fluid... it's nobody's fault because we've had injuries, we've had suspensions, we've had to manage minutes leading up to the play-offs - but we'll do everything in our power to get that fluidity back."


SHOW UP FOR BIG GAMES

"It was brilliant to see Dennis out there today, that's a big boost for everyone. I've got no doubt that when the biggest games come around, we'll turn up. That's not an excuse for today, but I think we've turned up for all the big games this year and been unlucky actually. We'll all be ready, I'm confident of that."


DRESSING ROOM DEBRIEF

"Things were said in the dressing room and I think that's good. We don't have long left til the play-offs so everyone laid it out on the line in there and I think that's a good thing. I'm not worried about the next few weeks in the slightest. We haven't become a bad team overnight, we haven't comfortably finished fourth and been disappointed about not giving the top two a longer run [without being a good team]. We know we can beat anyone in this league on our day, we've turned up in the big games and I have no doubt that this squad will turn up for the biggest games of the season and our careers so far. We have to stick together, everyone associated with the club. We'll be ready."


TIL THE END

"You've seen how much meant it to Oxford today. As a team, we've got to look at how they've reacted to this game, winning it, achieving their ambitions - ours is to get promoted and we still have a massive chance to do it. They've turned up in their biggest game of the season and we have to take motivation from that, because ours is coming in two weeks."


 
 

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