It was pretty hard to take, to be honest. Nobody was 100 per cent sure.

It hasn't sunk in. For every one of us that has been there for three or four campaigns, this is how it feels to qualify, ... We've not been there before other than '74 and none of the boys have been around that long.

Last night was one of those occasions where, the best way to explain to anybody was that I was 'there'.

We played a pretty decent game and to lose like that at the end is tough. But we got a point. Look at the positives and make sure we stay focused on the right things and move forward from this.

It's pretty bad. I don't know what to say. Nobody's used to this, nobody in here wants to get used to this. And some kind of way, we've got to turn it around. That's the only thing we can do, just turn it around.

We just played consistent in between the tackles and turned out the first downs. It was a pretty clean game for us.