6 Quotes by Scott Thomson

I thought we started quite brightly, ... I hit the crossbar and we had a couple of shots, but we never took our chances.

You always need to get an early goal. We came here pre-season, scored early on, and it ended up being five or six. We always knew it would be a hard tie coming to a place like this.

They had one chance near the end and Stillie pulled off a wonder save,

Everyone has been keen to come up and speak. Whenever they do, they say 'how are you feeling?', 'are you still fit?', 'are you ready to go and looking forward to leading the team out?' and 'we can win it and the 8-1 was just a freak result'.

I knew two or three weeks before the game I wasn't going to make it. It started to kick in then and the night before the final it was terrible. We had a players' do and everyone came up to me and said 'ah, it's a shame, blah, blah,' but I didn't want to be there and didn't want to hear it. Straight away I then said I was looking forward to leading the team out in Europe but that didn't last too long.

If you look at the nucleus of the team there are maybe three or four of us left from 2004. The club has been through two terrible seasons. We stayed up by the skin of our teeth last season and this season have not done as well as maybe we thought we would. It is a transitional period and we are just looking to have a good day at Hampden and give the fans something different.