Halifax Town boss was baffled by his side's performance against Cambridge United.

He said after the game, "I am baffled this afternoon. It was a poor start to the game in the first five minutes. After that I thought we were excellent in the first half. We created chances against a side that are up there in the table because they win games and have good players. They have invested in a couple of players; they spent £50,000 before transfer deadline day, so they are going for it.

We were well on top of the game until a ridiculous error, a catalogue of errors to gift them their goal and it's been the undoing of us all season. That's an individual error. As I have said before, we work hard on the training ground but it's a ball that has to be booted out of the ground and it hasn't. It's an error and their lad hasn't had to work hard for it for the goal.

We started the second half brightly; we needed to weather it which we didn't. Cambridge weathered the first half against us and I would imagine their manager, assistant and their players would not have believed they had gone into the changing rooms at half time being on level terms. The game should have been done and dusted.

These errors have happened and happened now this season and it's gone all the way through - Cortez Belle, Greg Young, Adam Quinn, Adam Legzdins, Craig Mawson, Thomas Harban, Rob Scott, and Ryan Toulson. Every one of them has made an error which has seen the ball end up in the back of our net. That's where the reliability has to be.

In the second half we had the numerical advantage but we never got the ball wide enough. Our quality of passing in the second half wasn't as good. There was mitigating circumstances as the pitch was cutting up and was awful. I am not making excuses but it is easier to destroy or to create? The passing was awful; we needed to get the ball into the box. We did at times and put in four or five great balls without getting on the end of it. The quality wasn't there to open them up and we didn't do enough in the second half to win the game, which massively frustrates us because we thought we had done more than enough to be 2 or 3 up by halftime. Yet again it's an individual error which has pegged us back when we should have been out of sight.

My opinion of the game is that they have had the first five minutes of the game and a 10 minute spell in the second half. Their lad gets sent off after 60 to 65 minutes and we've not been good enough to cut them open. Individual ability hasn't been good enough; we haven't got the ball wide enough or the quality of passing. We turned possession over too cheaply.

We said in the first half to play the ball into our frontmen early, we did it and it worked a treat. We wanted our midfielders to get forward, Heslop got in for his goal, Griffith got in, the three up front caused them problems and they couldn't handle it. Joynes was dropping off for the ball; Shaw was running down the sides and the midfielders running over the top. Beesley, Rendell and McEvilly never had a kick today, players as they are because that was working too easily wanted to change the script and wanted to take an extra touch in midfield, they wanted an extra pass or touch and slow it down when we needed to play quicker. It was a brainless performance second half, nothing to do with commitment, nothing to do with players not wanting to play for the club. We weren't bright and clever enough in the second half to exploit the space down the sides get overlaps in. We have taken a centre half and right back off and played with Griffith, Doughty and Adam Quinn at the back with three men at the back for the majority of the second half when their lad had been sent off.

They put one ball into our box in the second half and it ends up in the back of net, they've had two or three free kicks which have been needlessly given away by a couple of our players who wanted to get involved and were frustrated. We put three or four great balls in; Mark Whitehouse has put a wonderful ball into the box which needed someone to smack the ball into the net.

I don't think we edged the first half, I think we dominated the first half. We have done that to many teams this season but we have also been gifting goals all season as well. You can't do that at this level, you can't give opportunities to teams like that because they will take them and they have done.

Cambridge needed the win; they were going to go for it. You are going to have a period where you are going to have dig in a little bit. Tuck a few players in and weather the storm and for 10 minutes we've not done that. They've had a decent passing movement, a ball into our box and the ball ends up in the back of the net. I think we've done that and more to them but the ball didn't end up in the net.

The two areas we are not good enough are when teams put us under pressure to weather that storm and when we are on top of the game, we don't put teams to bed. That is the story of our season. In the 11 games we have lost, there is only one game which stands out where we were well and truly beaten. We've drawn 10 games and we've had big opportunities and big chances to turn those 10 draws into wins without a shadow of a doubt. That shows we are not good enough in terms of personnel, we are not a million miles away but we are not good enough now to achieve something in this league. Let's get this season over and done with. Let's see if I talk to some players to come in. I think the nucleus is there, you saw that on Tuesday, Rushden and today. There is something to work on, we are not the best team in the league and by far we are not the worst team either. It's the little things which are murdering us and me. These are players that we are in the market for at the moment, if the club wants to be at the top of the league we need better players."

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