As [Ewen] was telling us, it's very hard to build a reputation and it's very easy to lose it. Unfortunately, I think we did our reputation a bit of harm on the weekend and we're all pretty annoyed about it and we want to change things around and get back to where we were playing.

Al Baxter

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