36 Quotes by Steve Coppell

Complacency is not on our agenda. It is certainly not our biggest danger. My players have worked very hard for what they have achieved so far. They will not allow that to creep in. Neither myself, nor the coaching staff have to do anything to prevent that. They do it themselves.

The second-half performance reflected what we've been about all season. It was in stark contrast to the attempted exhibition stuff of the first half.

A lot of established players - players who are proven and who you know what you are going to get from them - wouldn't want to come because of our situation. We are a promoted side and while some may be excited by that challenge, others will think that we'll go straight back down. They wouldn't take the risk, so that drastically limits our parameters.

They are a unique blend of players who have been able to achieve a high level of performance over a long period of time.

It was a difficult game to evaluate but over the 90 minutes I thought we were the better side. They made it difficult for us and for a while it worked.

In a position where every mistake is costly, I can probably count on the fingers on one hand the times where he would probably argue that he's at fault. And I would probably question a couple of those goals even. He's been terrific defensively and ... his distribution has been very important in our goal scoring.

I'm under no pressure to sell so I don't expect to lose anyone and I don't expect anyone to want to leave. We have a relatively small but close-knit squad and it's very rare that a promoted team loses players.

I just hope we can finish the season off in the same way we've gone all year. We had a really strong spell and we got daylight between ourselves and the rest of the pack. We've managed to maintain that distance. But I'm not saying it's become routine now.

I just hope we can finish the season off in the same way we've gone all year.