GRIMSBY Town boss Paul Hurst shares his views after Saturday's 2-1 defeat at Forest Green Rovers...
On the performance...
"I thought we had two really good spells in the game. They hit the post at the second phase of a set-play, but apart from that, I thought we were the team on top.
But on Saturday, there were individual mistakes from players who have done extremely well this season and who I'm sure will continue to do so.
James McKeown made one decent save in the first half and they hit the post in the second, but there wasn't much between the two teams. There wasn't in the game at Blundell Park earlier in the season, in truth."
On the defensive mistakes...
"The first goal frustrates me more than anything, because we made two really bad decisions in the build-up to it.
I don't know what happened with the winning goal. It hit Craig (Disley) – I don't know whether he tried to control it – and it was a perfect through-ball for Norwood, who slotted it away.
But that was the fine line that we were dealing with on Saturday. We were the team on top, but we ended up with nothing.
But we can't be too down about it – we have to move on quickly onto a nice easy game against Bristol Rovers!"
On Hannah's chances...
"Ross is disappointed – of course he is. For his first one, he worked the ball extremely well to get his shot off and then with the second chance, he had two bites of it after the initial save. That's part-and-parcel of being a striker though.
He was disappointed in the dressing room that he didn't take the chances, I had to tell him to get his head up. The next one that comes along, he'll take it."
On whether his side were 'rusty'...
"We maybe looked a bit rusty in patches. In the first-half, we made some poor decisions on the ball and put ourselves under pressure at times.
Overall, there wasn't too much in it first half and in the second, I thought there were signs of improvement.
It would have been nice to play straight after the Eastleigh game, but we didn't and who's to say that if we had played games before Saturday, the result would have been any different? We know we've now got a week before the Bristol game, which is another important game in which we'll be trying to get that winning feeling back."
On results elsewhere...
"Lincoln have been going well, but in terms of their away form, it's not been going well and Bristol Rovers have an excellent home record, so it was always going to be tough for them there.
Barnet had the help of a Woking player sent off quite early in the game, but they pretty much went as you would have expected.
But we're still in a good place – particularly for the play-offs. The title is obviously more difficult now."
