"It's another game that the manager wanted to win to go on this run. We won the previous two league games before Saturday and we absolutely believed that we would get three points on Saturday. They may have just come down from the championship but we didn't fear them for one second, and the result shows that. We showed a resilient side to our game, we can't always be the dominant side. We did get the ball down and tried to play it when we could, but when we didn't, we did what the teams like Charlton and the Sheff United's do. It's a clean sheet and a 1-0 win; we will take that every day for the rest of the season.
We were up for the derby, we hit them early. We won our headers and our tackles and I thought they were a bit shocked, they thought they would come here and be able to play. Not many teams have come here and we've not been up against them ratting at them. On Saturday, every single player to a man was fantastic. Its hard to pick a man of the match, the gaffer said after the game that there were eleven men of the match. I don't think you can single anyone out; we had quality all over the park.
The goal came from something that we work on in training. At the end of the day, it's my job to clear a cross. It was a free header on the edge of the box for me. It happened away ay Yeovil and we've done it again on Saturday, where I've won a header in our box and its set up the attackers to score the goal, so from a defenders point of view, it's brilliant.
They struggled to handle David Amoo, and to be fair to him, he's been quality since he first came in. You can see it in training; he's got raw pace and great feet. If he was up against me, I'd be nervous. He's been fantastic and he gives us that out lay where he can take the pressure off the defence and he can run at them. He's always doing stuff like he did on Saturday on the training ground.
Obviously I'm a Blackpool player, and I've had a lot of messages and phone calls before Saturday's game. I was born in Preston and watched them growing up, its quite emotional playing against your boyhood team, but it was fantastic to see all my family at the game and behind me.
Preston are a very big club and I was shocked last season when they did come down to League One, but they are here with us for a reason and we proved on Saturday that we are more than a match to them. Now we can go into this break with a win behind us, it would have been awful to go into the break if we had lost the game. It's a good three points and we can go and have the little rest this week for a few days and make sure we are ready for the next league game.
Preferably we'd like another game as soon as we get. We've won three on the bounce and teams are going to start to fear us soon, but every now and then, you do need to recharge your batteries. It will be nice to have a couple of days off. We won't be resting on our laurels; we will be straight into it next week.
It's another three points towards the fifty, but as soon as we get those fifty points, we will look further, maybe even the play offs. First and foremost, we have to keep our feet on the ground and realise that we have only just come up. The number one priority is getting those 50 points early doors.
Its one game at a time and when we do it like that, we seem to be winning the next game. When you start looking at games coming in five or six weeks time, that's when you start forgetting about the game you're playing next. We have to focus game by game and that's what we are doing at the moment and we are reaping the rewards.
Obviously we knew that Preston hadn't won in eight games, we also knew that they are due a win and we had to be cautious, but the way we do play and the intensity that we play will kill a lot of teams that we play - home or away."
