Ainsworth refuses to feel glum
GARETH AINSWORTH insists his Wycombe side should not class missing out on automatic promotion as a disappointment.
The Chairboys spent much of the season in a top-three berth and were also in there for a short period during a tense final day before Bury’s win at Tranmere ensured they had to settle for the play-offs.
They won this game thanks to Alfie Mawson’s late winner, after a Sam Wood own-goal and Ryan Cresswell’s strike for Northampton had wiped out their first-half lead given to them by Aaron Holloway and Nico Yennaris.
Ainsworth (inset), whose side will meet Plymouth in the play-offs, said: “I don’t want any Wycombe fan to be down because we’ve not got automatic promotion.
“This has been a great season, I’ve got a lot of pride in what we’ve achieved and this club has been turned around. Of course I would have loved to have nicked third place, but this is still a great opportunity for us.
“I’ve got a bunch of players I believe in and we’ve still got a chance to make it a great season.
“It was always going to be a tough order for us to get the right result at both venues, but I’m very proud of the players. It’s not in me or in my players to settle for a draw and we wanted to go for the win.”
Cobblers boss Chris Wilder added: “You end up where you deserve to end up and we’ve got to accept that.
“We didn’t deserve to finish any higher and we’ve got a lot of work to do in the summer.”