"We've lost the last three games, and that's all the supporters see - its three defeats, but we look at it slightly differently.  Yes we've lost three games, and nobody is happy with that, but apart from the Wrexham game where we never really got going, we should have taken something from the games."

"It's slightly different to the start of the season where we never looked like scoring.We are still creating an awful lot of chances and we do look a reasonable side.  We just need that little bit of luck as we did in the early stages of the season when we weren't taking our chances.Now we are giving away one or two goals and we are not taking our own chances and we have to get back to doing that."

"The performance against Hereford had everything apart from goals, football is about goals, it doesn't matter how you get them or when you get them. People will look in the paper and see it on the results where it says Bury 0 Hereford 1 - that's all that matters at the end of the day, nobody is concerned with the 90 minutes in between."

"We have to adopt that attitude, we have to win games at all costs and we have to win games irrespective of how we play.  Andy Parrish came out with a good comment after the Hereford game - sometimes you take the result before the performance - he's absolutely right, and I don't think it's something that has happened here, it's always been about performances.  Of course it's about performances, but football is about winning games."

"I don't think we play too many games, I'm of the opinion that we are professional people and we train to play two games a week.  We do have more games in a short space of time over Christmas, but for me it's not a problem, we have a decent squad and players should not be complaining about that."

"I'm reasonably happy with the progress that we've made in the last six months since I came in, though I do think we should be higher up the table.  There should be no question about that after the performances', but as I've said, it's a results business and performances don't get you points as we saw on Saturday.  We should be comfortable in the top half of the table pushing on to the second half of the season and that's still what we are going to try and do."

"As director of football, you earn your crust before the transfer window opens doing all your work so that when the window opens you can go out and get the people you have targeted.  The manager and the coaching staff earn their crust out of the window because they have to work with the players knowing that they can't bring anyone else in.  A lot of people are critical of the transfer window, I'm not.  You get your players over the summer; you have until the end of August to get one or two in and then again in January.  By January you know where you are and what you want."

"I like speculation at this time of the year; I know there is speculation about one of our players and another club.  People don't like it because they think they are going to lose one of the players, but I have told you from day one of joining this club that it doesn't bother me who that player is or what the circumstances are.  All the players are available at the right price.  Of course you want to keep your best players and football has always been about wheeling and dealing and it's always been about players coming and going."

"I don't know where the speculation is coming from, but it doesn't bother me.  It depends on the player if it can be good for him.  It depends on the character of the player.  A lot of them like to see their name in the papers and they like to see their names linked with this club and that club.  With some it doesn't affect their performance, but with others it does."

"We are not a club that is looking to sell, I know in previous seasons the club has been forced to sell a player here and there - not any more.  Every player has their price and if somebody comes in with a silly offer for your players, whilst you don't want to sell them, you have to make sure that the club survives."

"Lee Bullock is not one of the players we are looking at bringing in.  He was offered a contract at the club but he has decided to stay at Hartlepool and take his chance there.  Obviously they are in a higher division and I have no problem with that, but we will move on and we will look elsewhere."

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