Yeovil Town manager Darren Way spoke to local journalist Chris Spittles, in an interview for BBC Somerset, after his side had won 1-0 against Dagenham and Redbridge on Saturday 27th February 2016.
CS: Darren, a hugely significant win and a battling performance today.
DW: Yes, it's not an easy place to come. I said to the press the other day that it would be a direct game, and they're dangerous with it. If you look at the final third entries, certainly in the first half, that we had to deal with, the boys had to deal with a bombardment of balls into the box and that's not easy to play against. It was hard to get our pattern of what we wanted to achieve, and it was two different games from the one that we had against Plymouth. I respect the players for dealing with that threat.
CS: When you brought in Brandon Goodship, you said to me that he's a goalscorer, and he proved that today.
DW: Yes, he took his goal really well. It was fantastic. I was disappointed with the front three in the first half, because it was so important that they maintained possession when the ball went forward. Having said that, with Brandon (Goodship) and Tahvon (Campbell) it's not their main strength. But because it's that type of game, you have to deal with that, and it was important that we secured possession. So I sat them down and I explained it's not your perfect Under-21s game, but you've got to do a shift for the team, and they responded, certainly by that finish in the second half, so that was very good.
CS: You were missing Liam Walsh and Francois Zoko due to illness. Can you tell us now the extent of the illness in the camp, because there might have been some other players suffering as well.
DW: Yes, there were one or two that were really carrying ill symptoms, but again I didn't really want any negatives. It's all about positives, so what a fantastic result!
CS: Was Alex Lacey available from the bench? He looked a bit pale to me.
DW: Yes, he would have done a job for the team. If not, then I was thinking about bringing Wealey on, but I don't know where to play him - centre-half or up front!
CS: So if you had suffered an injury before the end, and you'd had to bring on three subs, would it have been Lacey or Weale - had you decided that?
DW: (laughs) I'd already asked Chris, to be honest. When I said it to him, he said he has scored from outfield! So it was one of them! On a serious note, everyone was saying that was a six-pointer, and there was a lot of pressure on that game, which the players just responded with and dealt with. I listened to the club captain's interview, and I thought it was probably up there with the best interview that I've heard a club captain give about being professional, and about him talking about the staff, and talking about the players.
I asked for a professional performance today and I went into that much detail, and even said to the physio that the game was going to be won or lost on him, and on how professionally he prepared the players. So I've got to thank him, I've got to thank my assistant manager, I've got to thank the kitman as they've really organised a professional day, because I thought that was important in learning from the Hartlepool game, where everything has got to be spot on to win a game of football nowadays, because everyone knows everything about each other. What you've got to think about as well is that these boys have played Portsmouth and Plymouth, with the most powerful performance that I've seen at Yeovil for a long time. They've then gone and put in that sort of shift today. So in my eyes these players are heroes at the moment.
CS: You're nine points clear of Dagenham. York were defeated by a late goal, so you're three points clear of York. How good does that feel?
DW: It feels good, and how good is it for the travelling army to travel home tonight. They deserve it.