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"We didn't get anything from the game, thanks once again to a couple of catastrophic defensive errors.
"I'm fed up of saying this, because at times we do have some decent play between the boxes, but we continue to lack hugely in the two penalty boxes - ours and theirs. It is not acceptable for that to continue and it cannot happen again.
"The league table does not lie when you get to this stage, and it's personnel that needs to change, and it needs to change quickly.
"We have created enough chances and half-chances with people in on goal or going towards goal, and we just don't have the quality to score. We get quality crosses in, but we have no quality on the end. And at the other end we have no quality to defend resiliently and to concentrate for 90 minutes.
"I've said the same the same things after games before, and sometimes you can put it down to being unfortunate. But against Darlington last week we should have been three or four up before they scored, but we lacked quality, and today we were two down because of two monumental errors.
"We're rushing chances up front, we're anxious, and we are simply lacking quality in the two key areas of the pitch, that is our third and their third.
"I look at the team and I now say that I don't think we've got the quality we need, and we will be looking at the possibility of making changes at both ends. It's been well documented that the chairman has said we can bring in a loan signing or two, and that is what we are actively looking to do.
"We have the scope to make changes within the squad, but we also need to bring in people from outside to freshen things up a bit. We can have all the possession we want in games, but between the boxes counts for absolutely nothing in football."
"I think this is as disappointed as I have been, I felt after a couple of decent away performances we would come back here against a good Walsall side and produce again, and hopefully get a win. But without the performance being dire, it was not acceptable in terms of our box and their box.
"Now we've got another game on Wednesday and it's crucial now that we get the three points. Nobody wants to be where we are in the table, and the good thing about having a game so soon is we have a chance to bounce back."
Paul made the difficult decision to drop Richard Walker today, instead partnering Lewis Haldane with new boy Rickie Lambert.
"We wanted the pace of Lewis," he said, "He used that to get into some decent positions, but even he admits he was guilty of snatching at shots.
"We lacked quality in that department, which for a home performance is not acceptable.
"Rickie Lambert is relatively new, but he knows he has got to do better than that in the future. He has quality and his time will come, but we need to sort out our problems very quickly because at the moment we are where we are in the league table because that's where this team and these players deserve to be."