Dack Delighted With Newport Win

Assistant manager Jimmy Dack had something to smile about following the three nil victory over Newport County last night.

Audio – Newport Win Reactions

In quotes carried by the Crawley Observer from his unusual post game press conference (presumably Mark Yates was sitting quietly in a corner smiling) Dack went on to praise the gaffer for being the ‘hardest working’ manager in the game in his opinion and with recent disappointments behind us he felt Yates deserved a night like that.

‘It`s a massive win for us because obviously we`ve lost our last-four and it`s nice to get back on track. We have a young side, and you know they are going to make mistakes, sometimes costly mistakes. But what was really pleasing for us was some young players put in a 90-minute performance. We are working hard on the training ground to get better and the manager deserves a bit of credit. I`ve never met a manager that works as hard as he does and he deserved those three points, because he takes all the brunt and takes the pressure off the players, and he`s a good guy.’

Newport gaffer Terry Butcher also admitted after the game that he couldn’t have complained if we’d scored more on the night such was our performance compared to theirs.

‘I don’t know if we actually left the team we played at Carlisle up the M6 and brought home a load of strangers because that’s how we played. Fair play to Crawley, they’ve dominated the game and it could have been more than three.’

Hopefully this can be a line drawn now and the confidence boost that the players would’ve taken from it will roll over into the next one and we can really get some momentum back behind us again and start climbing nicely up the league and as far away from the relegation zone as we can over the coming weeks and months.