
CN: So Lee, after a disappointing result at the weekend, back to winning ways tonight in filthy conditions. Not a night to be a goalkeeper, but you must be absolutely delighted.
LA: Yes, massive three points. Horrible, horrible game of football. Terrible conditions. It was good in one of those games, I think it’s a mistake that wins it.
And there weren’t loads of quality from either team, because sideways rain, forty mile an hour winds, even though they've had a nice week, however, sideways 7.45, it was going to be horrible. So, it was a massive battle. Credit to both teams, I think them as well.
Made a great game of it in terms of ugly, but probably entertaining. Came out on the right side of it and we needed that.
CN: We can't leave here tonight without a special word for Danny who may have got a little bit lucky with his goal sneaking under the keeper in the second half, but he was immense again tonight, as perhaps we knew he would be.
LA: Well, some of our lads said on the bench. Might have been a keeping error and he's probably lucky to have squirmed under him.
However, what I would say is, if you look back to last Saturday, we threw about thirty balls out of the box and didn't get the end of one. So, if you give yourself a chance and hit the target, you've got a chance, haven't you? So, take nothing away from Southy there. He's peeled off back post; he's won it cleanly.
And look, I made a statement for a reason in terms of bringing Southy back, but we just felt right player, right time. In a run-in like this that we've got, you need characters and you need leaders and you need people who've been there and done it.
And listen, you're seeing tonight, both boxes occupying two big, big brute centre-halves there and I thought he manhandled them on occasion there and got us up the pitch and didn't stop running.
So, look, it's almost perfect, isn't it, that he's come back and scored what turned out to be the winner. But there's still, what, eight big games to go for us. So don't take our foot off the gas now.
CN: Finally, we've spoken about two things a lot this season, consistency, and home form. Back at the Raygar Stadium on Saturday, does tonight mean nothing unless we go and get three points on Saturday?
LA: No, I don't think so. I think our frustration is the league table looks healthy, but that's because we don't lose many games, you know, but when you win, draw, win, draw, draw, lose, draw, win, you're picking up points, but it doesn't feel like you're getting anywhere or getting any momentum.
But then all of a sudden you win tonight and like we have, we're six points ahead of the team behind us with a game in hand. So, we are still in a good spot, and I think sometimes I've got to remind myself of that.
But I think when we set our standards as high as we do and fall short of them, we're always going to be disappointed and I think that's why I think I've always been relatively successful where I've been, not in terms of trophies and stuff, but in terms of getting teams up the leagues and improving positions and standings because we want to win every single game and we're disappointed when we don't.
We've got to sort the home form out. I keep saying it, we can't keep relying on winning away, although we still seem to be picking up results most times on the road. We've got to sort the home form out because we get the support, we've got the facilities, we've got everything we need there to go and perform.
I had a look this morning again and our results up until Christmas at home were fantastic. I think we barely lost a game. We were picking up loads of points and for some reason since about the Christmas period it's just not happened for us.
So, if we can go and win Saturday, it puts back-to-backs on the board, it gets that monkey off our back as well. So, I wouldn't say tonight counts for nothing if we don't back it up because three big points against a play-off rival, if you like. It's a great feeling but obviously we want to win Saturday.
Lee Attenborough was talking to Chris Nelson.