Jon-Paul Pittman - Substitute

Some quotes from J-P Pittman who grabbed the leveller against Oxford on Saturday:

"Yeah I’m happy with my goal - it came at the right time. I was hoping we would kick on and go for a winner but that didn’t happen. It was a good time to score and I’m happy with it.

I think a lot of it is all about being in the right place at the right time. I made a couple of good runs and luckily the lads found me so it gave me the chance to make an impression on the game straight away.

It’s just part of being professional in this job (being a sub), there are only 11 places up for grabs so everyone’s got to be patient and wait their turn to wait for it to come and I think I took my chance today.

It’s definitely frustrating because you want to be out there. You want to be out there in the mix of the action and enjoying winning games, but when you’re on the bench and out of the squad you don’t get that same feel. But I got it today.

It sends out a message to the manager and to my team as well that I’m here, I’m ready when I’m called upon. Hopefully I can get a little run in the team.

I think Oxford is a hard place to come. They’ve got a good squad. We messed up and gave away a couple of sloppy goals but we showed our character I know it’s a cliche but we genuinely showed our character because we’re genuinely a strong bunch of lads in getting the two goals back and pushing on for a winner. I think that speaks volumes about the squad that we’ve got.

The team as a whole feel they could get back from being two down - I certainly did. It’s one of those things that’s infectious. If you see someone closing down a ball or working that extra bit hard, anything small like that, it triggers off the rest of the guys and more people than not had that thought in their head today.

Yeah we were (trying to get the winner) but we’ve warned about that before. A point is decent here - away from home with a tough crowd. You’ve got to take a point sometimes. At the same time you want to win the game but you don’t want to throw it away either.

We’re just going to keep playing, trying to take it a game at a time. But you are always looking at other results. We’ve been advised to keep looking forward, not to look at the teams behind us and that’s the way to do it.

It would be devastating (if Wycombe didn’t go up). We’ve not even thought about not getting promoted. The mindset has always been that it’s going to happen but we need to keep performing like that if we want it to happen.

With five games left if I can get a few more goals that contribute towards our season that would be great."