Preston 1-1 Town : Reaction
Last updated : 25 October 2003 By Site Editor
Ipswich Town Manager Joe Royle revealed he was pleased with a point in todays game, and felt that tiredness and the effect of players feeling jaded effected the peformance : "At half-time I'd have taken a point. We were so tired, and mentally we looked jaded after all our travelling this week.
"In many ways it's as impressive as recent wins. We did rouse ourselves and got back into the game. In the second half we pushed people on to stop them playing. It was that fatigue factor, rather than a problem. In the first half we were just not there."
Meanwhile former Scotland and now Preston manager Craig Brown felt that the blues were good enough to be promoted to the Premiership: "I think they will be promoted. If we finish above, so will we!
"We deserved to go ahead before half-time. At the end I told Joe Royle that I thought their second half performance was magnificent. We had two chances to kill them off in the second half but didn't do so."
Speaking of his goalscorer David Healy, Brown continued: "I'm delighted for David. he hasn't had a lot of action. His feet were burning up at half-time and he was going through the pain barrier towards the end of his spell on the pitch."
