With their being plenty of positives that manager Mick McCarthy can take from our game against Leyton Orient, he had admitted that there are also mistakes that he wants us to learn from as well.
Speaking to the Official Site following the one all draw, he explained that he was disappointed to see us give away the late penalty that led to their equaliser, especially as he felt we’d been lucky in the first half.
‘We got slapped in the first half and I don’t know how we have gone in ahead at the break. Well I do know, we defended well and Gerks made a terrific save. We had words and we were the better side in the second half. Then we went all milky at the end there. We were rubbish in the last minute. There were seven or eight things we should have done better and it’s ended up with a penalty.’
McCarthy goes on to say that in the dressing room at full time he had pointed out all the mistakes that the players made, and it was an honest chat as he himself knows it’s better for them to learn from that now rather than repeating them when the season kicks off properly because we if we throw games like that from a winning position we will be just dropping valuable points.
It’s also better for them to learn now because it means if it happens during the season.
‘I’m going to be ‘killing’ someone in the dressing room then.’
The gaffer also obviously pointed out David McGoldrick’s additional 40 minute run out and said the player was disappointed to come off again with only a few minutes remaining, but McCarthy thought it was better to be safe than sorry at that stage.
Paul Anderson and Tommy Smith also missed out through injury, but he believes they will be fine for the opener against Fulham, and Jonathan Parr has a sore groin and he’ll be assessed properly tomorrow.
The gaffer also confirmed that Paul Taylor won’t be featuring for him this season.
‘I said last season that he’s not for me. He came back after the break and to be fair to him he’s very fit but nothing has changed, he’s just not for me.’
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