User tools SmallNormal Text SizeLargePrintBookmark the SiteEmail this Page

Tisdale: We Showed Great Character

Posted on: Wed 04 Nov 2009

Exeter manager Paul Tisdale spoke to the press following the 1-1 draw with Wycombe at the Park.

"We showed very good character. If there's one overriding positive about our season so far it's about our ability to be strong in the last 10 minutes of the game and I think we saw that again today and we could even have won it in the last couple of minutes.

We weren't at our fluid best but it wasn't a game for that. The pitch was soft and slow and with the wind you weren't going to get fluid passing. It wasn't quite that day but I think the overriding positive is the ability of our side to keep going.

It was a cheap goal to give away but that is life and it makes the half time talk differently and you end up trying to lift the players as they have just conceded a goal at home and they are only human. It seemed like a bit of a mountain to climb but as normal they responded and we have got some guts in this team.

They will go away disappointed and we are pleased but we still just got a point each. Luckily for them it wasn't a penalty.

All I saw was Neil Saunders doing what he did best and jinking with the ball so well and if the referee thought he dived then he should have booked him. It just makes no sense but that was an extremely good piece of play from Neil.

Scott Golbourne was great. It shows you that players take time to settle and he was unlucky at the start of the season when he missed a game through suspension but he did great today and he had a very decent shot at the end of the game. He is going to come good, I know he is.

I'm very pleased for Barry, it is his second goal for us and if we get him in the six yard box like that he will score a lot of goals for us. And he is another player that is settling.

Barry Corr Scores the equaliser.
Corr rises highest to draw City level

In the last three or four weeks it was the first time I have seen him relaxed and smiling. He is relaxed now, he hasn't missed much training in the last five or six weeks and as a result I think he is becoming more and more at home with us and that bodes well for what is coming next.

Dan Seaborne had a bug, some sort of virus, and he trained yesterday but phoned in this morning as he was worse today so that didn't help. Lots of changes but that is the nature of where we are. These things seem to happen when everyone seems anxious.

I had very little to fault with them today, these chaps are doing their very best. I just hope people believe in them as much as I believe in them and they believe in themselves."

Advertisement
 News Archive
Display Stories From Week

All rights reserved save as per website Terms of Use. Privacy Statement. Subscription terms and conditions.

Accessibility.

For all advertising and sponsorship enquiries, please click here