
CN: So, Lee, not much more to say about that match tonight? Incredible 90 minutes, incredible period of extra time, got through on penalties in the end. I've just been in the dressing room. Incredible atmosphere in there. Just sum up your thoughts after tonight.
LA: Thoughts are proud. And even if I'd lost the game, as I said, the same, because like Stocksbridge last year, ding-dong game, both sides left everything on the pitch.
Credit Basford for their part in that game. I thought maybe they shaded first half. I thought second half and into extra time, thought we'd come on strong, thought we were the better team, played the better football.
Felt we were the more likely, but they were still lively in transition. Their two wingers are quick, especially the left-sided lad, a good little player. And they were a threat all night.
And you always felt it was going to be, could we throw the hardest punch while we're dominating the game, but you might leave the back door open. We obviously twisted, made some attacking changes. And by the end, we've got Grats, Diego, Draper, Moran, Kev, also on the pitch.
Unbelievable shift and to win it on pens. I just feel like we deserved that luck for what happened to us last year. And yes, just obviously proud of the lads massively, some unreal performances.
CN: Special word for the travelling support tonight, which was, as usual, absolutely incredible.
LA: Yes, a little bit hard to see because they wear yellow as well. So, there's yellow everywhere, but obviously behind that goal.
And just listen, the scenes at the end there, not just the amount of them, but you see people's faces close up. You see what it means. And hopefully they can see that's reflected in our boys and the celebrations at the end.
Look, we're only halfway there. We've got another game to play. But they're the nights we do it for.
Fingernails were bitten all the way through. Penalties is a lottery. You know, we scored in the 88th minute.
And if you remember, we did it at Stocksbridge last year. We scored late, but then we had all our attackers on the pitch and you’re wide open. So, at that point, it is literally ding dong.
But just listen, I don't want to single an individual out as such, but I just think there were probably two or three for us amongst a really good team performance, but two or three that had outstanding games. I thought Jonno Wafula was unreal in there, different class. You talk about getting the game by the scruff of the neck, and Grats, all over the park.
He might look two stone overweight, but he can certainly shift. And he carries it well, don't he? Bless him. And even at the end there, he's third man running.
He's driving with the ball. And I also thought Louis Keenan as well, for what he was outstanding today, especially when we moved him to centre-half. He just gave us that little bit of extra distribution from deep, which I think obviously South, natural right footer, maybe on the left-hand side, doesn't give you that out ball.
And we wanted to get Tom on to give us a bit more sort of width up the pitch. He played well as well. As I said, I feel harsh on the other lads singing certain ones out, but I thought there were a few in there that took the game.
CN: Did you have to rip up the penalty shootout notebook after Draper’s red card?
LA: Yes, and I was a little bit annoyed. You know, first of all, well done to the officials today, because I thought for 122 and a half minutes, they were absolutely spot on. I think they got the red wrong.
Draper got booked for simulation. He's felt contact and he’s gone down. Might have been soft, but it's not a second yellow.
Their lad dived in the first half. The ref just didn't give the foul but played on. So, we're a bit upset with that one.
I don't know how that affects Draper for Saturday either. I'll have to look at the rule book for that one. But yes, he was going to take a pen, and then I named four.
I said, right, who wants the fifth? And KP put his hand up. So KP was due to take the last one. And I just thought to myself, when I had that last pen, I thought, let's get it done here, because I don't fancy KP, because KP's only got a power bar of 150, and he'll max it out every single time.
So, it was either going to break the net, or it was going to fly into someone's garden two mile away. So luckily, lads played well.
I have to say, listen, both sides took good pens as well. So, yes, it was one of those games where I just said to the lads, as much as we celebrated there, let's enjoy that one. But we've got one more to go.
And we do, you know, we want to go one more.
CN: As you say, one more game to go now is the message to the fans. Pack the Raygar Stadium and let's reach that Premier Division.
LA: Yeah, I've just said to the lads in there, I think the chairman's going to lay a 4G this week. Yes, it's obviously a different game on our pitch. Last time Warwick came to us, they set up a flat back five.
We'll do our homework. We'll set up a game plan. But like I've said for a minute one Chris this season, when we are at it, we're a good team.
You saw it in spells tonight; we're a good side. And the disappointing thing, again, is we've let two set pieces in. If we cut that out, we’re going to be hard to beat.
But it'd be another game, so I think Warwick are good. They're on a good run. And even when they were sort of in ninth and tenth place, I was looking at the squad they had, the players they've got.
And, you know, I thought they'll be up and around it come the end. And they are. And they've gone and done a job on Carlton tonight by pens.
But to keep a clean sheet there over 120 minutes shows they're robust. Both teams have had extra time in pens. Been through the ringer.
Everyone's tired. Everyone's running on empty. Knocks everywhere.
So, let's patch up both sides and let's have a go Saturday.
Lee Attenborough was talking to Chris Nelson