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League Two Playoffs | Playoffs

May 18, 2013 at 1.30pm UK

Bradford Bradford City
3-0
Northampton Northampton Town

Hanson, McArdle, Wells

Aidy Boothroyd: 'I'll never get over playoff loss'

By Sian Cowper, Reporter | 24 May 2013

Northampton Town manager Aidy Boothroyd says that it will be tough to get over the team's defeat to Bradford City in the League Two playoff final.

Aidy Boothroyd has said that he does not expect to be able to get over Northampton Town's loss in last weekend's League Two playoff final.

The Cobblers lost 3-0 to Bradford City at Wembley, ensuring that they will remain in the fourth tier for another season.

The club's manager told BBC Radio Northampton: "I don't think I'll ever get over that. I'm not going to sulk about it but I'll be reminding the players how that felt.

"I don't want to be a nearly man again and I don't want the players to be that either. We didn't lay a glove on them. Bradford had more experience of the big occasion than we did, but just getting somewhere is not enough, it's about winning it.

"I think we need one or two wide players, another front player and a goalkeeper. We're going to find it easier attracting players than when we were bottom of the league and I had to practically kidnap people to get them in."

Northampton finished the season sixth in the League Two table.