New Blackburn United gaffer Jamie McCormick spoke of his disappointment in his aspect’s efficiency of their 1-1 draw with Linlithgow Rose, however praised their character and mentioned he was proud of the end result, writes Callum McCormack.
Scott Richards had given the hosts the lead with simply 10 minutes to go however they had been unable to carry on as Owen Andrew pounced in injury-time to safe a draw for the away aspect.
McCormick mentioned: “I believed we had been disappointing. We’ve had a superb pre-season, we’ve received all our video games and I simply thought we’ve let ourselves down. Our ball retention was poor however I believed the character of the blokes was implausible. We defended rather well.
"The nook on the finish is irritating however I believe having watched the sport we’ve received to be proud of that.”
He additionally praised goalkeeper Jakub Welna with the keeper having made quite a few key stops through the sport, saying: "He was man of the match. It was good, he was excellent, he did a whole lot of issues proper.”
The brand new gaffer, who had been a long-term assistant to now retired Mark Campbell, known as on his workforce to take their late disappointment as a lesson, acknowledging that his youthful aspect have work to do to achieve their potential.
He added: "We’ve received a younger workforce, the typical age is 22 so we’ve received quite a bit to study. We have to coach them and make them higher as we go ahead.
"They’ll study from that, we’re on the board, we’ve received a degree, we had been enjoying the workforce that lots of people most likely have because the favourites for the league. Yeah, they had been the higher workforce over the 90 minutes however I believe individuals overlook that defending is a part of the sport as nicely. So I’m delighted.”
McCormick’s aspect had been sucker-punched by a late Linlithgow Rose equaliser and he says he and his teaching employees maybe must take a few of the blame, saying: "I believe we had made so many substitutions. It got here from a nook and I believe we possibly didn’t get the knowledge onto the substitute as to what we wished.
"We had been attempting to shout to the substitute and say ‘we'd like you to drop again into an space’ he didn’t hear us and that’s precisely the place they scored from.”
“When you’re taking a look at it, we'd have most popular the three factors. However, a degree? We’re proud of it as a result of we are able to carry out higher.”
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