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Derek, just how damaging a defeat is that? Well it's damaging in the sense that we came here to win and we expect to win. I think it was really harsh on us. In terms of the overall performance, yes it wasn't perfect, but I thought we were the better team. I thought we lose the penalty kick when... Having seen it back, I couldn't understand what it was at the time, but having seen it back. It's not a penalty kick. Don't think the referee should be brought over for that. So really disappointed with that. Still got plenty of the game to get ourselves back into it. And I do think that what we've got to do now is just dust ourselves down because that was a blow for us. I thought the response from the team in the latter part of the game was terrific. We probably need to play a bit more like that, more often. In terms of playing forward, engaging our strikers quicker, playing with a better tempo. Because it was all a bit laboured. The stat that matters is the final result and I'm not going to be a manager here that takes positives from that but there were some positives and I like the way how my team never gave it up. They kept going for the win. And I thought that was really harsh on us. And sometimes in life and football you don't get what you deserve. We deserved far better than what we got today. I share the frustration, it's been 15 years here, of frustration, built up for a number of years. The one title the club did win that was when no fans were in. So the fans have not even seen their club win a title. And there's been a lot of tough times and I think we need to dig deep at the minute and I'm determined to get this right. And I believe we will get it right. I think it shows how determined we were to have the best window possible to try and get everything ready and to be as strong as we possibly can be. And it's not been a good start for us, we understand that but totally get the supporters' frustration, I share that. And, you know, sometimes that's a byproduct then for my team, this team, who have to deal with that. But deal with it we must because that won't change until we start seeing winning performances and getting us where we need to be at the top end of the table and winning trophies regularly. So it's, it's not the start we would have wanted but we still plan to get the finish that we wanted and it's up to us to try and be as strong as we possibly can be in the next few games, and certainly coming out of this window.