"It's all about winning and we had enough chances in the game to win three games.  We didn't take them so it's unfortunate for us.  It's good for Shrewsbury but we just have to move on and get over it quickly.  We have to enjoy the occasion and being here.  We also have to learn from the loss and learn from the disappointment.  Whether you are a manager or a player, it's about disappointment.  There are more disappointments than high's so we have to get over it and be really resilient.  I'm hopeful that my players will be exactly that."

"I am proud of what they have done this season and we have a come along way.  It wasn't about today.  In my opinion and the player's opinion, we should have been promoted on the last day of the season.  We've done enough through the season to have been comfortable but it wasn't to be so we have to use the play offs.  The biggest thing for me on Sunday - I thought we were excellent from start to finish."

"If someone had said that we would finish nine points above Shrewsbury, with all their money and all their resources I wouldn't have believed it, but we are nine points above them and on Sunday we were the outstanding team on the pitch."

"We had enough chances, it just needs one to go in, but it hasn't, it was the manner in which we created the chances.  We don't just get it and boot it.  We get it, pass it and open them up.  They went down to ten men but I have to be honest and say that it was pretty easy for us to open them up and move the ball around the pitch, we created chance after chance - its just about converting them."

"We finished fourth in the league playing pretty much the same stuff that we played on Sunday.  We had energy, pace, passing it.  The only thing we didn't get on Sunday was ending it by putting it in the back of the net."

"You think that because of what we had on the pitch, and we do have some quality players here, you just think that sooner or later it is going to go in.  You become more and more desperate to score.  We try out best to pass the ball, move it around and open them up, we did that and created chance after chance after chance.  Unfortunately it didn't go in."

"I also have to say that there are some things that I am not particularly happy with.  I have never been to a ground where the penalties are at the away end.  It's unbelievable.  I believe a decision was made before the game and I find it unbelievable that first of all I wasn't consulted.  It's by the by now but it's defiantly something for us to look at for the future because it just shouldn't happen."

"There's nothing we can do about it, the lads that missed the penalties' are upset and disappointed.  We have to be realistic about everything.  They have been fantastic throughout the season, it was one strike.  They have to get over it, learn from it and move on like we all have to.  Its football I'm afraid."

"It's a simple message, we have to regroup for next season and hopefully from this we will be stronger, we don't want to taste what we are all feeling now.  We want to be promoted when the season ends.  We don't want to be in the play offs, even though they are good for everyone else.  For the management and the players - its not particularly great fun."

"You can't set the penalty takes in stone, because you never know who's on the pitch.  I changed two strikers; Danny Racchi was on the pitch.  We did practise them and of the ten that were on the pitch, those were the five who were thought would score and obviously we missed two.  We also missed one during the game and I am never going to sit here and criticise one of my players for missing a penalty because it does take a lot of courage to step up there."

"The atmosphere was fantastic, but I have to say - we've earnt that.  These 15 months hasn't been easy.  The group of players, the staff and this football club has earnt this.  It was around 2,000 when I walked in and 7,600 on Sunday.  All of a sudden, it looks like a proper football club.  There is areal buzz about the town and I hope that they come back.  Yes it is disappointing and we all wanted to go to Wembley, it's not going to happen, but we've got every chance next season."

"We are not the finished article.  We've had a fantastic season but we need to progress.  This season is done now; we can all look forward to next season and step on.  I can only play football one way, I am a coach with young players.  I want them to have the ball and I think that's the only way that they are going to get better.  It's easy to get the ball at the back and launch it, but I owe them to teach and that's what I will do."

"We have been planning for next season and we know who will be leaving us and who won't be.  We will have some time off, sort that out and then move on quickly because next season will come around really quickly."

"I'm already talking to four players about coming in next season, if we had gone up a division - it helps but from the outside we look like a progressive football club.  From where we've come from to where we are now, we do look a progressive football club and it's important that we don't stop that or we will quickly lose these supporters.  I will sit down and chat with everyone and see which way we are going to go and take it from there."