“As the chairman [Steve Gibson] stated earlier, and I will state now, we don't want to lose our best players at this football club - and Mark Viduka is one of them.”
“He was just finding his feet. He was becoming our main man in midfield, keeping the ball for us and creating. It's a big blow for us, eight to ten weeks just when we seemed to be getting some consistency from the players.”
“I said before the game this was going to be difficult. The hard work was done last week and we just had to make sure we got the right result to take us through.”
“We're in the last third of the season and we've still got a lot to play for. We've got ourselves in trouble in the Premiership and we've still got to get out of that and we're going well in the cups.”
“It's a great scalp and it's a massive victory for the club. It was excellent European performance, full of patience, discipline and control. We deserve the plaudits we will get. These are very exciting times here. Roma are one of the best sides in Italy but we controlled the game and defended ever so well and we are always capable of scoring. It gives us a good platform for second leg and our away record has been very good, so we should go there with confidence.”
“I was a little disappointed we missed the opportunity to get a second. When you get the opportunity, you've got to take it. It would have been the icing on the cake.”
