"I hope Saturday's derby game will be as intense as the Rochdale game.  Saturday was excellent.It was a pretty good game that had everything in it.  Everyone that I have spoken to really enjoyed it.  The fact that we didn't win the game doesn't seem to matter, everyone seemed to be that happy that we could compete with Rochdale and we competed pretty well to be fair."

"The atmosphere inside the ground was fantastic and to be fair to both sets of fans, it was a really good derby game that had everything that you want in a derby game.  It's that atmosphere that is missing from this place.  When there are people in it sounds brilliant.  The ground is good when there's a few sat in it and when there's a few shouting in it.  It just sounds great, that's what we want, and that's how we want it to be."

"You would hope that if we take care of everything on the pitch the crowd will take care of itself.  The figures were pretty positive for us, it's just a shame that the season has ended.  You want it to carry on and to see what we can do.  It has finished and hopefully the extra ones that came will come again next season."

"The final three points of the season are available on Saturday, and I want them.  Accrington is a tough place to go.  I've been there already this year with Chesterfield and we lost the game 2-1.  It is one of those places where if you are not ready for it mentally, you are going to get turned over."

"Training on Thursday was light hearted, it was a little more serious on Friday but there was still a little light hearted about it so we stopped that.  We have to focus on the game and they have to know why we are doing it."

"From a personal point of view, I am quite happy that we've got to the end of the season.  I am pretty tired.  The players know that its one game, there is a mentality within them that one game to end poorly will make people forget.  We don't want them to forget because we've done so well.  We want it to end positively and for people to go away thinking next season may be our season.  Hopefully it will be a lot better.  We want to take the last game and not lose."

"I've had a long season at two clubs.  I've been in the top half, the bottom half and somewhere in-between as well.  It has been a long season; I don't know how many games I've seen.  I have to say though, that it has gone pretty quick.  Being here at Gigg Lane has gone pretty quick.  We've had a lot of games and it's always easier to enjoy when you're winning games.  It's been really enjoyable."

"We've done what we wanted to do which was stay in the league; obviously that was the most important thing.  We've raised a little bit of expectation and we've put a little bit of belief back into the players and the supporters.  It's been an excellent second half to the season."

"It will continue through the summer, where there is a game, I will try and go to watch it.  We are trying to get in touch with agents and players.  Hopefully we will have some news in the next couple of weeks regarding an assistant manager."

"I will be turning football off, but not for a while.  I'm going away at the end of the month for our wedding anniversary and I've been told that I am not allowed to take the phone.  I'll turn it off but I'm only going for four days."

"The new season has already started for me; we are trying to plan pre-season games.  I know what we will be doing in pre-season, getting the structure right around it, the training facilities and then the players and who will play and where."