Dearden: Get Over It

Notts are still to win at home this season in five matches.

And last season it took Notts until October, their seventh home match, to pick up their first home win, a 2-1 victory against Northampton.

"Don't ask me to explain it, I don't know why it is," Dearden told the Nottingham Evening Post. "It is clearly a problem for us. We have had five matches at Meadow Lane now without a win.

"And we have had similar starts to the campaign, at home, in the last two seasons."

Dearden, like most Notts fans, believes that the run should of ended Saturday aganst Tranmere Rovers, especially as Notts again let a lead slip.

"I thought we should have picked up three points," he said. "You should always be looking to win after taking the lead. But we didn't manage to hold on.

"Like the match against Rushden, we were soon pegged back. On Saturday we won some pride back. I thought we did enough to win. We showed fantastic determination, great passion.

"I think that is the word, passion. We had plenty of that. If we can show that again on Tuesday and for the rest of the season, we should not have the problem for long."

Dearden also took time to criticise match referee Mark Warren. His insistence at stopping the game all the time can't of helped The Magpies.

He also turned down a late penalty appeal, when Simon Baldry appeared to be brought down in the box.

"It was a very poor performance by the referee," said Dearden. "I don't want to say too much because I don't want to get into trouble.

"If I get fined I might not be able to afford to pay it. I went down and had a chat with him afterwards.

"I just asked him what his thinking was behind some of his decisions. He stuck by everyone, he denied that he had got anything wrong.

"I have to say I did disagree with one or two of his decisions - probably about 30 of them.

"But there is no point in making too much of a fuss, you just get on with things.

"You fill in the report on the match officials and you get on with it.

"There were 4,000 people in the ground who thought that was a penalty and only one who didn't. That is all I will say about it."