Managers quotes after Plymouth draw

Last updated : 22 February 2003 By Michael Morris

Lennie Lawrence

"It's a dagger to the heart to concede a goal so late. To be honest, a draw was no more than Plymouth deserved. Our goal-keeper made some great saves and at 1-0 I thought we were going to get away with it.

"If we won this game I would have said we were lucky to get away with it. We just seem unable to grind out 1-0 wins.

"We don't seem to get away with anything at Cardiff. Other sides can do it but not us."

"I'm very disappointed with Plymouth's equaliser. We defended the free-kick too deep. There was confusion and the ball ended up in the net.

"We are having problems playing at home at the moment. We had three or four chances against Plymouth but we couldn't get that killer second goal.

"Crewe could open up a gap on us but people must remember we are in a better position now than we were at this stage last season."

Paul Sturrock

"I feel justice was done tonight and it would have been a sin if we had come away with nothing.

"In fact on chances alone we should have collected all three points. I am very pleased for them but they are all disappointed in the changing room.

"If we had belief in ourselves we could achieve more in this division and tonight with their keeper as man-of-the-match it shows just how unlucky we were.

"To get anything out of Cardiff at Ninian Park you have to play with the right attitude, commitment and with a lot of hard work.

"Cardiff were a bit nervy and didn't play with the confidence they showed against us earlier in the season."