McCormick’s pride tarnished by defeat

Luke McCormick was left frustrated on one of the ‘proudest moments’ of his career as he skippered the Glovers on the 3-0 loss at Carlisle.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Josh Perkins, McCormick said: “[I’m] very frustrated probably one of the proudest moments in my career, on a personal note, wearing the armband today for this football club. Obviously tarnished by the result seeing the traveling fans and the numbers that they travelled in. Yeah, really disappointing day, gutted, very emotional.  All I can say is, on behalf of me and all the boys, we can only apologise and try and put things right on Wednesday.”

Falling behind early was – clearly – not part of the plan and McCormick said he knows what to do in this situation. [I’m not sure what situation he’s referring to here, nothing to worry about all…]: “You go away from home, a lot of the messages up and down the country will be very similar. We had a game plan, and unfortunately, we didn’t execute that today. Yes, this is roll your sleeves up time. It’s not getting bogged down. I’ve been in these situations before. The only way out of this is to stick together. That’s everyone, that’s the whole football club and everyone involved, to help your mate out to do a little bit more if you can, because you can always do more. And yeah, like I said, go again Wednesday, and that, for me, is a must-win game of football.”

McCormick added that the defeat to the high-flyers didn’t dictate the mentality going into the Sutton United fixture at Huish Park on Wednesday.

“I don’t think that’s dictated by the result here today. I think to come here and and lose is obviously not what we wanted to do. We go to every ground to win the game of football, but it doesn’t always work out like that. Make no bones about it, these teams that are in around us, these are massive games. Yeovil is a massive football club for the division alone. We need to steer clear of this scrap, we need to steer clear of this fight. And I think there’s enough in this dressing room, and there’s enough of good people at this football club that we will.

“We’re in a business end of the calendar, so we need to pick up points, and like I say, we move on to Wednesday, we dust ourselves off. Thank you very much to the traveling fans, each and every one of them, the people that watch the home,” McCormick added.