Rotherham United Manager Paul Warne told Freeview that he thought his team were ‘pretty outstanding’ despite losing to West Brom on Saturday.
‘We started the second half well and took the lead,’ Warne carried on. He was rather critical of the hosts leveller which he insists should have been a Rotherham throw-in which was given the other way which led to the penalty from which the Baggies scored. ‘Then we had to get a winning goal which made us open to the counter attack and they scored again.’
The Millers went on to hit the bar, hit the post and give their all but, like so many other games this season, their all wasn’t enough.
Most of the season we’ve seen the Millers fight but even if we were to go three up there would always be that, well, we need another goal to be sure sort of mumble from the watching fans.
We seem to be very much an ‘almost, nearly but not quite’ sort of team. A team, who, unfortunately, don’t seem to be able to hold onto a lead.
Warney said he was obviously disappointed at the end of the game and the players, for the second game in a row, fell to the ground before coming over to applaud the travelling fans, and he said, ‘In my opinion there’s no shame in what’s happened, I’m proud of the group but it will hurt for a few days.
‘I don’t have any regrets. People can criticise me, but not the team who were absolutely amazing. We always try to score goals and make people smile watching us, which I hope they do’.
Following Rotherham United has always been, as former manager Steve Evans called it, ‘a roller-coaster’. It always will. That’s why we are Millers fans, why we keep coming back season after season, why we will always be Millers Fans.
Warney ended by saying, ‘I am proud to be the Manager of this club – as long as it lasts’.