"Being released wasn't a surprise. We'd spoken a few weeks ago and I was quite comfortable with it.  It's hard to explain, it wasn't a surprise but I had got comfortable with the feeling.  You never know what's going to happen at the end of your career at the start of your career.  I was comfortable with what was going on, I was never going to chuck my toys out of the pram or anything like that.  There was never any problem."

"I'm away now on a level three coaching course over the next couple of weeks with David Buchanan and Terry Dunfield, so if I can get past two weeks with Terry Dunfield, then I will re-assess the situation after that.  He's already phoned me asking for a lift in, but it will be good to see him again."

"I was here for just over five years and ultimately it was a good decision for me.  I had the opportunity to go to Morecambe when they were a non league club, but I always wanted to play league football as long as possible, and for me it's turned out to be the right decision.  Now over 200 games later it is the most games that I have played for one club and it will be good to leave that legacy of my career here at Gigg Lane because I think it was an important time to keep this club in league football."

"League football has probably gone for me now, I've become quite comfortable with that.  It was interesting talking to Dion Dublin at Norwich and he told me then that this would be it and he would finish at the end of the season.  You always try and leave things open and see what happens instead of making a snap decision and saying this is what I am going to do.  I am going to wait and see.  I could do a year in non league or I might decide that I don't really fancy it, but at the moment, I'm leaving things open."

"I've also become more comfortable with the fact that coaching is the future for me.  At one point I would never have thought of doing it, but the more you get involved with your kids, plus I have one that is involved at Everton and Liverpool's satellite academies and for me it's quite interesting how the next generation of players is being brought up."

"There's been good times and bad times here, there's a few that stick out.  When things aren't going well on the pitch you always draw strength from the people that are around you and there is a great bunch here.  The people that have come and gone, the ones that are still here.  Beating Bolton in the first season - and it wasn't an own goal, I definitely got a touch.  Beating Rochdale that year in the LDV, getting to the play offs was the first time I'd been involved in that competition and the FA Cup games this year at Norwich and Southampton."

"There have hardly been any bad times, there have been bad times off the pitch and people have been working hard to keep this place on an even keel and it's been a battle at times.  My last season at Stockport was the worst season I've encountered in football for different reasons - bad things that I saw going on, so it was nice to come here and enjoy it.  At the time I thought I might be here for a year or two years.  I've stayed here a lot longer than I thought I would but it has flown by."

"I've had four managers here with Andy Preece, Graham Barrow, Chris Casper and now Alan Knill.  That's football and a lot of managers.  It seems a manager's shelf life these days is 18 months.  The only thing they can guarantee is that at some point, they are going to go.  There's also been a big turnover in players whilst I have been here and that shows that there has been a problem with continuity on the pitch."

"The manager was saying that it would be difficult to get players in because we've been involved in relegation battles, but the flip side of that is that he is in charge of a league club and for him what goes on at Bury FC starts now."

"I signed professional forms in 1986 for Chester and its strange how it's worked out.  I made my league debut for Chester at Gigg Lane, I've scored my only FA Cup goal at Gigg Lane and now I've finished my career at Gigg Lane.  It's funny how things come round like that.  There are plenty of photographs of me in the old programmes in the press office of me and my nemesis - David Lee.  I still have nightmares about him now, but it's funny how things come round."

"I've come full circle, I'm comfortable with it, it's not a problem."