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Wilkins: A Big Win

Posted on: Sat 22 Mar 2008

By Tim Dudding

Dean Wilkins has praised his side for once again having the character to come from behind, but has warned his players they can't keep conceding early goals.

The Swindon win was the fifth time Albion have overturned their opponents' lead this season - and amazingly the fourth time since the turn of the year.

He said, "Again we started the game slowly, which we have done now for the last few games and it is something that we cannot keep doing.

"We cannot keep playing catch-up but we have shown incredible resilience again and we have adapted again to get ourselves back in it."

Wilkins felt that the effects of Albion's hectic schedule were all too plain to see, but that this made the result even more satisfying.

"I think that not only the conditions were difficult for us today but also there was a fair degree of fatigue out there today. There were a number of players at half-time who were struggling.

"Westy was struggling a little bit and Harty has come in for a rare game so at the end of the game he was feeling tired, and you could also say that Kerry is in the same position.

"Fozzie was clearly tired, as was Glenn Murray, and Thommo kept going but there was a lot of fatigue out there.

"Today was a really big win for us but on Monday we have got to try and work out a way of recovering the players from today's game and we need to possibly make one or two changes because we need some fresh bodies."

There was already one new body on display; on-loan Charlton midfielder Therry Racon made his debut alongside Steven Thomson, and Wilkins was delighted with the Frenchman's contribution.

"I thought that Therry Racon was excellent," he admitted.

"We did some work yesterday playing a 4-4-2 and then we also did some work playing the diamond, so he knew his role immediately and I thought that he played a big part in the game."

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