Royle: Top Two Finish Still On

Last updated : 07 March 2004 By Site Editor
The former Everton, Manchester City and Oldham manager told the Official Club Website: "It's obviously going to be very difficult for us to finish in the automatic promotion places but it's certainly not impossible.

"That is still our aim and will remain so until it's mathematically impossible for us to achieve it. I have said many times before during this season, there is no one better than us in this division when we are on our game.

"What I will concede is that both Norwich and West Brom have been consistently better in the defensive side of the game far more than we have this season.

"We totally outplayed Norwich in the first-half at Carrow Road but didn't take our chances and then made mistakes at the back for their first two goals by not picking up Mackay.

"It was the same against Stoke. We dominated that match but an error at the back gave them their first goal and a mistake by the linesman gave them their second."