
Duff believed that Szabi Schon should have been fired for multiple instances of postponing the restart that went unpunished.
But as the Terriers’ 16-game League One winning streak came to an end, the head coach acknowledged that a “lack of quality” proved expensive.
After the final whistle, he remarked, “I don’t think the referee helped that; we just couldn’t build any momentum in the game.”
“Whether it’s right or wrong, it’s a mandatory yellow card now if you stop a restart and two or three times it happened in the first half.
“I’ve had a red card this year for stopping a ball. The left-back has buried Ollie Turton in the first half, I think he should be sent off.
“He’s not the reason why we lost the game, but he didn’t help in terms of trying to build a bit of momentum.
At the very end, he adds five minutes. He puts up five minutes, but I doubt we would have scored if he had put up twenty-five. After four minutes and fifty-eight seconds, he blows up after receiving two yellow cards.
It simply felt a little flat. That was my irritation at halftime when I told them not to sleepwalk into a 1-0 because it had that vibe. I can say that since I’m on the sidelines. In the end, we didn’t make the changes we requested of them.
Duff hopes that his squad can use the sting of defeat as motivation to bounce back as they prepare to take on leaders Birmingham.

“(Bolton) are on a difficult run and you can see what it meant to them,” he added. “That’s why I said sometimes it’s not a bad thing to get beat.
“No one wants to get beat, particularly me. My job’s on the line. But sometimes that feeling, that horrible gut feeling when you walk in the dressing room, you hear them celebrating.
“You must return to your work. To win a game, you need seven or eight players. That was definitely not present today.