"Get your mentality right, get your attitude right. If some of you don't want to be here, leave."

"When you're piling on the pressure, you get this intensity and roar from the crowd, which is what we're all missing."

"I think it's apparent it's [transfer speculation] been affecting him [Edouard]. Hopefully he'll calm down once the window shuts and come good for us."

"We have a title race on our hands and we have to roll our sleeves up and do better. They have done it before but we can't live off the past either, this is the present."

"It's been disruptive with Covid and a lot of players away on international duty and I'm not sure some were on the ball today mentally. It looked like what we were - a team put together before the game."

"We have players who are not fully fit coming on and they didn't have the impact we hoped." (October)

"Somebody within the club is doing us in."

"I am past the stage of my career where criticising players probably works and I don't think they deserve it."

"I thought the referee had a very poor game - decision-making, being influenced by his assistants and some of the decisions were baffling."

"We've lost one game in the league and pundits are talking about me being two games away from the sack. Players getting singled out, abused, criticised, it's absolutely shocking."

"There's no justification for me to be sacked. None whatsoever. If things start to deteriorate rapidly, I'll hold my hands up and say, 'this isn't working, we need to look at something else'. But at the moment we're nowhere near that."

"They [the supporters] can't all be constantly criticising the team, the manager. It's not productive."

"I've never questioned their character. Other people do and I don't know why."

"This is definitely a turning point - it won't happen again, that's for sure" (it did happen again)

"I can't defend the players. I've tried to over the piece, but I can't defend them tonight."

"Lack of application, lack of hunger and that's not us, so there has to be a culture change and I've got to change it quickly and the players need to change quickly as well because that's totally unacceptable for a club of our standing."

"It is an accumulation of things. We need to get back to showing a bit more humility and start working harder on the training ground."

"I don't know if they've lost a bit of hunger. If there's any criticism of the performance today, I can't defend it."

"Then for 25 minutes we found our mojo, played really well and got a point which is not enough. We need more. The players have to ask why we can't put that together for 90 minutes. It's a mindset thing more than anything else."

"The bottom line is that we haven't made that bad a start to the season. In terms of the league we've lost one game."

"They're an excellent group, but they're just lacking a little bit of unity at the minute."

"They [Desmond and Lawwell] have been with me since day one through the good times and we're going through what is perceived as a bad time at the minute."

"I don't think it'll take that much. I just think the players in some aspects of the game are lacking a little bit of confidence, but it's nothing terminal here."

"Sometimes, on a run like this, your legs feel a bit heavier, your thinking is not too clear."

Every excuse under the sun. Clueless, delusional, incompetent.