Peter Taylor chose his words very carefully today after the 5-0 defeat at the hands of Bolton. Speaking to City's official site after the match he said that only Sinclair and Izzet could take any credit for today's match and also admitted that it was a very hard debut for new boy Dennis Wise.

Taylor also tried to explain just why he put Matt Elliott up front.

Taylor said, "Since July 9 everybody has worked very hard, so to lose the first game 5-0 when we were expecting a win is a major disappointment and I am shocked.

"I'm shocked and disappointed because after we conceded the first goal we seemed to collapse and I've said to the players that was last season, this is a new season and we shouldn't lack belief as quickly as we did today.

"It was a very quiet dressing room after the game, I've told the players that really only Frank Sinclair and Muzzy Izzet can take credit from the today's match.

"It's happened to a lot of players before where they have been on ther receiving end of a pasting in the first-half and returned to a dressing room with the game as good as gone."

"All I could do was ask them to feel better about themselves and go and try to get something out of the second half.

"But people still didn't show enough to get the ball or look as though they were hungry to try and get the result."

"Dennis obviously endured a very difficult debut as you can appreciate because of the way we collapsed after the first goal.

"It may have been a different situation if Matt's header had gone in but one of the amazing things about this game is that Dennis and the other players have all played better in pre-season than they did today.

"Wise and Savage didn't look as effective as they have in pre-season but they weren't the only ones.

"I think we may have over passed the ball without getting it forward to our strikers.

"We ended up losing the ball and our players didn't have the confidence to go and get it back.

"I thought Bolton played 4-5-1 very effectively and that Ricketts caused our defence far too many problems.

"I don't want to spend too much time admiring Bolton's finishing I'd much prefer to concentrate on what has happened to us.

"I made radical changes at half-time because I thought being 4-0 up at that stage Bolton may have chosen to sit back on their lead a little bit.

"So I put big Matt up front to go for it and chase the game that way but it wasn't to be."

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