Kelly's heroes in seventh heaven

03 January 2010 09:53
Kelly was given responsibility for first-team affairs at Deepdale on Tuesday after Alan Irvine was sacked by the Championship club just over six months after guiding them into the play-offs.[LNB]The Lilywhites put a difficult week behind them with a ruthless demolition of League One high-flyers Colchester, with Jon Parkin scoring a hat-trick and Chris Sedgwick, Chris Brown, a Ben Williams own goal and a Darren Carter strike completing the rout.[LNB]Kelly said: "It has been a difficult week, but I am delighted for the players and the supporters. It has ended on a positive note and we're in the hat for the next round.[LNB]"We said to them 'affect what you can affect' and no-one can ask any more. They have been very professional the last few days and I think you saw a professional performance and it is the players who get 100% credit for it and no-one else."[LNB]Kelly also revealed that there have been no developments with regards to a permanent successor to Irvine.[LNB]He added: "We'll report for training on Monday and go from there. It will be business as usual.[LNB]"The chairman has been very straight and open and asked me to take training and pick the team today and unless I hear otherwise, I'll report for training on Monday."[LNB]Colchester boss Adrian Boothroyd admitted his side were not at the races.[LNB]He said: "Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. They got the deflections, a penalty that probably wasn't, but we have to take it on the chin. We can't make excuses.[LNB]"It was a very, very, very poor performance and the only thing that was consistent was our fans were clapping and singing all the way through.[LNB]"I won't be brushing this under the carpet and writing it off as a freak result, but at the moment we'll get out of Preston as quick as we can. I've learnt a few things today, but I'll mull over them in some quiet time."[LNB][LNB]

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