Frank Nouble spoke to BBC Radio Somerset’s Josh Perkins following the Glovers’ 5-0 defeat to Barnet on Tuesday.
Josh Perkins: Frank, just like I said to Mark [Cooper], it was never going to be easy tonight.
Frank Nouble: No, but you have to give credit to the team we played tonight, I thought they were outstanding, we’ve come with a game plan, but that goes out the window when you concede, on our part, softish goals, it’s difficult to recover from there.
JP: You did a lot of running out there, it’s difficult out there when you do go two, three, four goals down to continue to lead the line and chase things down.
FN: It’s our job, it’s what we’re paid to do, the score line, obviously, looks terrible, and it’s a bad night for all of us. The supporters have come down and we really appreciate that, we know they do that every week for us, they spend their money and all we want to do is give back a good performance and tonight we didn’t do that overall. We have to hold our hands up, and go back to training and work hard again. And give credit to Barnet, they’re top of the league for a reason, last year we knew what that felt like, being top of the league, you can just win games by just turning up sometimes, and it felt like that for them today. We give credit to them, there’s some good players out there and we found it tough.
JP: You came up against such a tough opposition today, they are a future League Two side.
FN: They’re a good team, a really good team and they’re strong at home, give them their credit, but we could have done better, we’ll look back at the goals, and just take responsibility. In life, you can’t dwell over spilt milk, just keep going. At the end of the day, if they go on to win the league it’ll be well deserved, because they’re probably the best team we’ve played this season.
I think we’ve been really competitive most games, but tonight, we weren’t, obviously the score line tell that. We’ve just got to go again, we’ve got another game on Saturday, we’ve got to really apologise to the supporters for our performance overall, it wasn’t good enough.
But we’ve got a game on Saturday, we’re lucky in football, we’ve got another opportunity, to go out there and prove yourself again, you’re only as good as your last game, we heard that again tonight in the changing room, we’ve got to move on and be better.
JP: What is it that you can do now ahead of Saturday, is it a mental thing or physical training?
FN: We’ve got to recover, we couldn’t fill the bench today, the players that are out there have just got to give it everything, simple as that. If we defended a bit better as a team, we might not have conceded as early today, there’s no-one to blame, it’s all of us, we’re all in it together, there will be no blame game, the supporters will go home upset, the people that watched it online will be upset as well, but we’ve got a game Saturday and we have to react.