Ciaran Brennan reacts to Newport County’s 2-2 against Crewe Alexandra as they pick up another point on the road.
Throughout this season Brennan has produced high-quality performances and for the second time this season been rewarded with the player of the match.
Although a positive individual performance he admits disappointment with today’s result.
“Yeah, we're all disappointed, frustrated in that. I mean, probably this morning if you say you come here, it's a tough place to come, you know how they are in the league you take a point.
“But the way we were in the game, from where we were in such a good position two nil up, it's hard to feel like it's not two points dropped.”
Coming into the game then hosts were fourth in the league so the players knew this was a difficult task.
“I think in years gone by, you'd see this as a really tough fixture, but we've spoke all week.
“Well, we know it's a tough fixture, but we really wanted to attack the game, and I think you could see that, especially in the first half.
“Second half, maybe we ran out of gas, I don't know. It's hard for me to put my finger on it, but fair play to them, though, the crowd got behind them, they pushed and they got the equaliser, which is a shame for us, but yeah, it was a good game.”
After conceding in the 90th minute the group are still finding positives from the display although are disappointed in the result.
“It is a shame, but we said in there to try and take the positives out of it.
“If you can't win, then you don't lose. We said that, and we've had a couple of occasions of that this season.”
“So, we had to dig in mentally, and if it is 2-2, it stays at 2-2. We definitely don't want 3-2 from the position we were in, and we did do that fair play to everyone.
“There's some big strong characters in there, and we spoke afterwards, and yeah, it's been addressed and all good.”
“Yeah, brilliant, it always is. They make themselves heard, which is great for us and yeah, it's great for them to come and see a performance where we really put on a show from particularly first 70 minutes.
“It's a shame for them that they can't go home with three points, but like I said, I think everyone can see this season, we're a different outfit, and yeah, we're looking good.”
Moving forward the squad look to learn from games like these and are hopeful to pick up more points on the road.
“I think particularly if you win your own games and you draw your away games; you're not far away from the top of the league.
But yeah, like you say, I think if you turn a couple of these away draws into wins, it can be a real big boost for us to push up the league.”