Michael Dobson expressed the dejection in the camp. "The confidence is pretty low at the moment, to be honest," he said. " I think for the past three or four weeks we haven't been playing well. We made a few errors. It's not happening for us." Moving to his goal, he said: "It was a nice goal but it would have been better if it had counted for something."

On rumours of needing injections before the game, he added: "I don't take injections, just inflammatory tablets to keep the bruising down."