Below are selected highlights from Monday afternoon’s press conference. You can find the full audio above or in your We Are Terriers podcast feed, including Cameron Humphreys’ contribution.
Liam Manning
We’ll start with team news, unfortunately, and ask for an update on Marcus McGuane after he came off on Saturday?
Yeah, there’s a slight strain, but it’s looking at probably two to three weeks, which is good news, to be fair — naturally, when you go off that early and looking how he did, you worry. But fortunately it’s only a slight strain.
You’ve got a couple of options, I know Antony Evans was involved on the bench and came on against Doncaster in the Trophy — is he getting closer to being involved in the league?
Yeah, very much so. He’s in a good spot. He’s definitely one that is close to being in contention, so it’s good to have him back. I think he’s shown some real quality in training, and he’s only going to continue to improve the more work we get into him.
Everyone else who was involved down at Stevenage all come through OK?
Yeah, [Mickel Miller] is the other one — he’s rolled his ankle. He was limping around a bit, I think, it was quite clear from the sidelines, so he’s struggling a bit with that. But apart from, apart from that, no other major issues.
How do you reflect on Saturday, then, a few days on?
It’s a tough one to break it down. I think even watching it back, it such a hard place to go, but I think what you have to do is make the game look how you want. If you try and play them at their game, they’re used to doing it and will come out on top, which is probably what happened second half.
I thought first half, the first 10 minutes were under a little bit of pressure, but then I thought we did a really good job, especially last 15 minutes of the first half, of wrestling control back and playing in their half.
There’s some decent half-chances, some corners, some territory, playing around their box, rather than our half.
But in the second half we never really got going in terms of imposing our style on the game. We tried to play them at theirs, and like you see, we ended up coming out second best at that.
But even then, it’s probably more the frustration, the manner of the goal, I think, feels like it was an us rather than [Stevenage]. We were five minutes away from taking a hard=earned point, albeit with a difficult performance in a difficult setting against a difficult team.
