Gary proud if his players after holding 'boro

Last updated : 29 January 2007 By Morris (Bristol)
Gary Johnson

"We're very proud of the boys and our football club.

"We've been involved in a great FA Cup tie here at Ashton Gate.

"The supporters played their part and the players played their part.

"The boys are a bit disappointed that we haven't nicked it in the end, but we've come back from the dead again.

"We played our game first half without creating winning football, as we say. But we played that winning football in the second half and caused them a problem.

"At this level, if you make them mistakes (for Boro's goals), then players like these are going to punish you.

"We had to get the game back. We do believe in ourselves, no matter what opposition we are playing and we believed in ourselves once I finished with them (at half-time)."


Gareth Southgate

"The players are really disappointed in there, but it was a good lesson for us today.

"If you stop doing the things that have got you into that sort of (winning) position, then you can be punished.

"Bristol have punished us, they've deserved a draw from the game, so credit to them.

"It's their day today, but we live to fight another day.

"I think we played well in the first half. We were positive and we defended well. In the second half, we stopped doing the simple things well.

"We'll learn a lot from that because we know you can't take your foot off the gas in any game.

"We have to be ruthless, but we're still in the cup."

"We'll have to play very well (in the replay), we've seen that today," he added.

"It's not 'job done' by getting them back to our place."