"When I look back at a difficult season, there will be some pride for it.  We've had an unbelievable amount of injuries but I have to say that it's been really disappointing because we have thrown away a great chance.  We were in a really strong position but our form over the last three months has been really poor and the final game at Northampton kind of summed everything up in that we go 1-0 up and then right at the end they score with a massive deflection.  For us to win would have been fantastic, but it kind of sums up the season."

"We nearly did this and we nearly did that.  It should never have come down to this game, we've had plenty of opportunities all season and we haven't taken them.  We have nobody to blame but ourselves but I do think that now is time for change at Bury Football Club.  For two years we've had a really good go and it hasn't worked, so now we have to sit down and reflect and decide which way we are going to go."

"There was a lot of work for this season, and last season to make sure we are ready, now we have a lot of work to do for next season.  I've got a lot of players out of contract; I will probably lose some that I don't want to lose because we can't pay them what they want.  I just look at it and think - its time for a change, not a change in direction because we have been good, but just how we as a football club are going to get better."

"It's not just on the pitch because for two years it's been fantastic, we've been up at the top of the league, we've given everybody something to shout about, but we are doing something wrong.  We are not quite getting over the line and I want that.  I want it for myself, for the players and for the supporters - who have again been fantastic again today.  I want the supporters to be successful with us and we have to reflect on how we are going to do that and have a plan."

"It might be a year, it might be two years, but there has to be a plan in place.  I've got another year left on my contract and my job is to firstly put a team out that competes and then really have an eye on the rest of the football club, and then see what we can do, so that every year we have a team that competes.  We have a board meeting on Tuesday and we will see what we can do.  I've got some ideas of what I want to do, hopefully we will then see if the board goes along with those ideas."

"We've got the quality in the squad, we need more quantity.  For the first two thirds of the season, we were full of energy, for the last third we haven't.  We are asking the players in those energy positions to perform at the top of their game every week.  Sometimes they need a rest but we haven't been able to go out and get somebody so that has to change.  I don't know how we are going to do it at the moment that through the season we can just go out and get somebody, and not have to ship somebody out to get somebody in."

"I have some plans and some ideas, now we will see if the board agrees with it or they don't.  It needs a radical change to get over the line, we've finished fourth and ninth.  I know that some really tough decisions are going to have to be made because I have a really good bunch of players.  The first thing I said to the players was thanks, they've been fantastic.  Throughout a season you fall out with people, but over the course of the season and for the majority of the season they have been fantastic, and even when we've been on a poor run, training has always been good.  They've been up for training but when it comes to the big games, they've just not performed at the right time."

"I don't think for any fault of their own, the injuries that players such as Bishop and Carlton, its just not worked as we had hoped.  The injuries have been worse than we first thought.  The injuries have taken a lot out of them.  We were expecting them to come back unbelievably sharp but it just hasn't worked like that.  I'm unbelievably disappointed for everybody at the football club."

"From the outside people will say that ninth is a pretty good season, but for me, there's a lot of disappointment.  I don't want to be ninth - I want to be first, I want to be in that top three.  That's the aim, whether we can do it or not I don't know, because this is Bury and we need some sort of backing to be in there but first we need a plan to get in there."