FANS AND PLAYERS VIEWS: Carling Cup Exit

By Matthew Jones
October 31 2003

Several players and fans give thier view on Wednesday night's Carling Cup exit. Andy Griffin explains how the fans have been let down, while a few regular forum users explain how they feel and what can be done about it. ANDY GRIFFIN
We feel as though we have let the manager down and we have particularly let the fans down. To get nearly 47,000 for a third-round Carling Cup tie against a team outside the Premiership is incredible.

I suppose this is the only club in England which could get a crowd like that and that says everything you need to know about the people up here. But all I can say is that we tried our best and worked very hard throughout the game. Everyone in the dressing room is gutted that we did not win.

DAVENUFC
Trying to care I mean 47,000 the largest crowd in the country, deserved to see a first class toon performance, but ultimately the manager put out a side, that reflected how little we care about this cup.

A lot of sides see it as a way into Europe, but we hopefully won't need it as we'll qualify on position (hopefully CL)

Look its over lets get on with something serious, and leave this mickey mouse cup to the mickey mouse teams.

LEVEL 7 MAG
While it isn't a calamity on the same scale as our Champions League exit, it is still disappointing to lose the game in the manner we did. Many people are saying that "it was just one of those games", which may be true, but with the number of chances we created, we should have buried West Brom, inexperienced team or not. It just shows that perhaps our squad isn't quite up to the standard that we'd like to think it is.
MARVYN
I was bothered at first, but now I am not. What was frustating is we can beat West Brom in our sleep (Shearer or no Shearer), but now we have to concentrate on the league and the Uefa Cup.

4th in the league and a good run in the FA cup and Uefa cup is what we should be aiming for.

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