There was no sign of Stan Ternent after the game. There were suggestions that he didn’t want his picture to appear as the opposition manager on Clarets Mad (I’m using it anyway) and maybe he didn’t want to provide me with a headline from his fantastic repertoire.
Mind you it could have been that he thought anything he said would be on the magic lantern with a few members of the claptrapper’s union asking him questions but the truth is the man who said Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein wouldn’t want his job whilst telling us we had gone from sixes and sevens to sevens and eights as we threw one in, was seen galloping away alongside a blind man on a galloping horse to try and get to the Drum before closing time.
Instead it was the equally familiar face of our former reserve team coach Ronnie Jepson who said, “It was an excellent three points but it was a tough game. The gaffer and I had great times at
“The first half we were a little bit nervous, but we were a lot better in the second half and got our rewards with a great goal from Darius Henderson and he had another chance to make it 2-0, and let us relax, but it didn’t go in.
“The goal was a great finish on his right peg. The kid works hard in training and he got his reward today. It would have been nice to get a second one, to make it a bit easier in the end but overall we are pleased.”
Jepson ended by commenting on the reception he and his gaffer received. He said, “Stan got a fantastic reception from the
We saw a side to Steve Cotterill that we hadn’t seen before as he openly criticised his players following what had to be the worst performance of the season.
“I thought it was a poor game really, but the goal was a decent finish to be fair to the lad,” he said after the game. “It was an awful first half to which we contributed and we looked a pale shadow of the side from a couple of months ago.
“Unfortunately it looks as though we’ve got our points on the board and that’s it. We didn’t play at all, the only time we had a little bit of the ball was after they had scored and that’s when we built up a head of steam, when it was too late.
“I am majorly disappointed today, we’ve got the points and now we are coming up against teams who are fighting for their lives. I thought we dealt with every long and high ball they put into our box pretty well in the first half, but we know we can do a lot better than that and the players knew my feelings after the game.
“It is a long way to come for us and the fans to do nothing. We should play for professional pride and I’m not happy with that at all.
Steve did think we should have had a spot kick though (although he, like many, missed the clear penalty in stoppage time). “We feel we had a case, because if it’s not a penalty why didn’t he book him?
“But either way, that wouldn’t have changed the face of our performance today and we’ve got to start getting back to having good performances because if we’d have won, it would have been a false one because we didn’t deserve to win.”
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