As he made the long walk to the Press Box at Meadow Lane at around 5pm yesterday evening, Ian McParland cut the figure of one shell-shocked and utterly frustrated Manager.

The Magpies boss had seen his side see their dreams of a potentially lucrative draw in the Third Round of the FA Cup slip through their fingers as a disappointing afternoon saw a late goal from Havant & Waterlooville's Tony Taggart ensure it was the Blue Square South side that are in this afternoon's draw.

Speaking about the performance and goal that was conceded as well as what went wrong, he labelled the performance is unacceptable while also once again was fuming at the sloppiness of the goal conceded.

"What went wrong is what has been happening every week," said the frustrated Manager.

"Don't get me wrong, I was not happy with the performance out there at all, but again we defended lazily and tried to play offside. If that hadn't happened, they wouldn't have scored.

"But, that said we didn't play well at all and the performance was not acceptable.

"In my mind in the dying stages from the last three weeks I have seen I feared they would score, because I said before teams are very vulnerable when they think they are on top.

"It happened at Lincoln and although we weren't totally on top when Havant scored, but they didn't really have any clear-cut chances - and then we get caught out on the sucker punch."

With League Two high-flyers Peterborough United the visitors to Meadow Lane on Tuesday Notts are back in action pretty quickly as they return to League action, and a Sunday-morning training session is on McParland's agenda.

He is now calling on his players to show some character and pick themselves up, but he along with the rest of his management team will be doing all they can to lift the squad ahead of Tuesday's game.

He said: "The boys are in today, but that was planned during the week and not because we lost.

"We will have a cool-down, head-count and a chat.

"We have to pick them up as a coaching staff now, and the players also have to pick themselves up - but we will be doing all we can to help them on and off the field.

"They have to show a bit of character, and what a game Tuesday night's game is to bounce back."

To hear the Gaffer's full post-match views from the Havant game, along with Captain Adam Tann's reflections - log onto Magpie World right now.