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We dipped today and that wasn't what I wanted

Last updated : 07 May 2007 By Tony Scholes
Ian Dowie - sent assistant Tim Flowers to the post match press conference
Dowie did nothing to quell the speculation suggesting he might be ready to quiet the Sky Blues when he sent his assistant, former Blackburn goalkeeper Tim Flowers, to speak to the press after the game after his side had won their first away game since he took over as manager in February.

Flowers said: "We have been a soft touch away from home and it was important to get that monkey of our back. Too many times this season we have given goals away by mistake but credit to the lads, they managed to see off the storm.

"The players have given everything for the shirt. They are a nice bunch but we do need a bit of quality." Flowers dismissed the suggestions regarding Dowie but the rumours refuse to die away.

Steve Cotterill was far from happy with our last performance of the season. "I can't step out of it at the moment. We didn't give it a go from the kick off and that's why we didn't win the game," he claimed after the first home defeat since we lost to Leicester back in February.

"If we don't play with a high tempo, and play with the same passion, enthusiasm and drive that we have done that's made us a decent team in April we won't win. So there's a fair bit been learned today because the things that we have been good at over the last month and the first few months of this season, if we take stock, is what has made us a decent team at this level.

"However, if we don't do that and we think we can be sloppy with our passing, not do the distance with our running, not win our headers at important times, all the basics of the game, then we won't win. And we didn't to them today.

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