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"We're looking forward to the Euros (Euro 2008 qualifiers) and we learnt a lot from tonight. Aiden McGeady came on and did well and I thought Stephen Kelly did well.
"There are positives out of it. We experimented - we know what we can and cannot do now. Are the players tired? I don't know. We had a go in the last 20 minutes but when you start badly it takes time to get over that.
"The players are disappointed but now we look forward to what's going to happen in August and September."
Reading striker Kevin Doyle admitted it was a "bad way to finish the season".
"It's always disappointing to get beaten, we didn't get out of the blocks early and it continued from there," he said.
"A couple of the lads haven't played for three weeks, myself included, whereas they have been training. We were a yard off the pace at times.
"We had a couple of chances, nothing too clear-cut, but they put theirs away. They are a very good team."