"It's not really necessary in this league that we are out of the game at 2-0, I thought if we could get to 2-0 at half time we'd be playing the best way. We played better 2nd half, but i thought we didn't put enough balls into the box, and we tried to play too much football on a difficult pitch. Lennie Lawrence said to me after the match that he thought we had footballers in the team, but sometimes you have to play the conditions"
"You can't play too much football, you have to get some balls into the box to put the defenders under pressure"
"We have a settled back four, but Alex (Baptise) has a sore knee, but i thought Rhys came in and did ok, I think Alex will be fit quite soon"
"With 10 minutes to go, i thought if we had got one goal, we might have gone on to get an equalizer, it wasn't to be, the keeper made a good save from Richie, but we didn't do enough to put them under pressure."
"The players have done well, they are young, and they'll learn from playing on this surface, we'll do some work on playing on certain surfaces, it isn't going to easy, they need to learn to be more resiliant away from home"
"I'm not thinking about next season, i'm looking to get as many points as possible this season"
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full interview at www.mansfield103.co.uk
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Paul Trollope speaking to the official Bristol Rovers website said "I think we got out of the traps the best we have all season,"
"I asked the question to the players if we could start the match today like we have played at times after going a goal down, and we did that.
"We started with a good tempo, we had a few openings and then we got the goal. And when we got one goal I wanted us to get another, and then another. We didn't quite get the third, but it was a pleasing win nonetheless.
"We feel we were worthy winners - they did improve in the second half, but we stayed focused when they came at us and our concentration for 90 minutes was good. I was delighted with that, and delighted to keep a clean sheet as well.
"We were very professional for the whole game, we made good decisions when we needed to, and we were always a threat - especially on the break."
"After the three defeats of last week I couldn't ask for much more from the players. There wasn't total pressure on us to win, but it was a game we didn't want to lose because that would have been four in a row and quite possibly our season over.
"But today, as much as I was pleased with the win and the three points, I was pleased that there was no anxiety or nerves for the last 20 minutes and that in the end it was all quite comfortable."
Paul was full of praise for his striking duo of Richard Walker and Junior Agogo, with the latter's display especially pleasing.
"They set the tone for us," he said, "In terms of work rate if they are at it and working hard, then we tend to push up behind them with the rest of the team following suit.
"They got hold of the ball and caused us problems, and you could see today from Junior's display how much we missed him. Not just what he can do, but his impact and affect on others, and although he tired towards the end of the second half, what he gave us today I was very pleased with."
"We said that with three points for a win and the league as tight as it is that everything can change on one Saturday afternoon," he said, "Things changed a little bit today, and maybe next week they'll change a bit more.
"We feel we can go to Wycombe and look forward to it. They didn't manage to beat Orient today, but they play their football in the right way, and hopefully we can go there and get our away form back to how it has been.
"If we can do that, then I think we'll quite fancy ourselves to get a result there."
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