5 Quotes by Jim DeRose

We went from being healthy, with the exception of Deron, to being devastated. We had guys who hadn't played 30 minutes in a match on the field at 0-0 (against Eastern).

Sometimes a week of training hard does a couple things for you. Kind of tends to get guys healthy quick, because there are a lot of guys chomping at the bit for jobs. Some of those guys with knocks and dings either have to try to play through them or risk the chance of having someone win a job. It's been a very competitive week of training.

They got that first goal and that rocked us on our heels.

It's a local rivalry, a big rivalry and our team has a tremendous amount of respect for Western. Our guys and Western, no matter how you look at it, it's a one-goal game. It truly is a throw-the-records-out kind of game.

That'll be good for everybody. I think he wanted to be done with it. He deserved it, he earned it and now he'll go and put a distance to it. It'll be hard for anyone to catch him.