Toon Players Say "Sorry" To Fans

Last updated : 17 March 2007 By Footy Mad - Editor

Kieron Dyer: "There are no excuses. We let ourselves and everyone associated with the club down. We twice had a three-goal lead in this tie and we have blown it again.

"It is like Groundhog Day. It always seems to happen to us and now it is another season with nothing to play for.

"We have got to get tougher mentally or we are going to get punished the way we always seem to do.

"It is another disappointing end to what should have been a promising night.

We huffed and puffed a bit at the end and may be I should have scored and so should Oba Martins. My first touch was good and I thought I had scored. I could only watch as it went agonisingly wide.

"But I suppose that summed up our night. We were second best on the night. There was not a lot of quality out there and we were made to pay.

"While we still have to try to win as many points as we can and climb up the League table, this will take a long time to get out of our system."

Shay Given: "We probably did not deserve anything on our performance. What can we say? We have let the fans down again. The whole team did not play well and we are out of Europe, so it is the end of the season. What can you say apart from roll on next season?"

Steven Taylor: "We are all absolutely devastated. I do not think I have ever felt this low in my career. It is frustration more than anything. We came here with a two-goal lead and losing that was a massive disappointment.

"We gave away two sloppy goals, it was as simple as that. We did not shut the back door and keep a clean sheet.

"We had a massive chance of doing well in this competition and we have all got to hold our hands up."