Managers comments after City's win at Northampton

Last updated : 30 August 2006 By Morris (Bristol)
Gary Johnson

"It proves we have a strong dressing room despite our poor start. The spirit has always been there and hopefully this group of players can now move on together," said Johnson.

"The sending off was something you can do without but both players were very angry with each other at half time," Johnson added. "I had to shut them up as I only had 15 minutes to sort things out for the second half.

"But take nothing away from the 10 men in the second half because in the end we have come back to win in style, we had 10 heroes out there."


John Gorman

"The two penalty decisions stunned us but there is no excuse, we got beat fair and square," said Gorman.

"We've played well in our previous two home games and lost but we've played too many long balls and got caught out on the break.

"The first penalty decision changed it and they looked to catch us in the second half on the break, which they did.

"We went to 4-4-2 in order to create some width and we had the openings. We couldn't get hold of the ball enough but we still created several chances, but it wasn't a good night for us."