Kevin Blackwell Quotations

But there will be no pressure on the lad to come in and set the world alight. We want him to settle in first.

I feel the club is only at the start of something good. I'm positive that we can go on and achieve good things. There is nowhere else I would rather be than Leeds United. I can look to the future now and we can make plans - but my immediate focus is on getting Leeds out of the Championship and back to where we belong.

Getting back to the Premiership will be a big test but what we have shown here is resilience. Previously we have tended to be seen as soft touches.

It has been a momentous year and this was a fitting way to cap it. I would have taken a 1-0 off someone's backside for three points today but we looked a good, strong side.

You can be critical about our finishing, but it just wouldn't seem to drop,

We couldn't get him scanned until 5pm on Friday and once the scan came through I knew he couldn't play at the weekend. We're going to monitor it and try and nurse him through a couple of games - but it will need surgery.

We have to try and get him fit and that is proving impossible without giving him some sort of break,

We came to Ipswich at a time when they are full of confidence and we were not quite on our game.

We are not sure what the problem is, or whether he will need surgery,

This time last year we'd have lost that game. I could never have changed the game with the substitutions. I'm building a decent side here and out of adversity we've gained something of a little triumph.

There is nothing to clarify about David Healy, I have had no bid for him and he's not going anywhere,

We wish him good luck with that one, let's hope he can do himself proud again.

Didier Agathe is one name we're trying to bring in and I'm not going to deny it.

This club is big enough to go up. But I'm not saying that we are because there are too many good teams in this division.

There was some passion in it, that's for sure. There was no way we were going to let Sheffield make a showboat game out of it and we haven't lost in four games against the top two now this season.

It was still a job to break them down. They still have the points and all we can do is keep the pressure on.

It's how we do over a season that counts, not four or five games. The results we have achieved so far have given us a platform, and that's all.

It's been a momentous 12 months. Hopefully the next 12 months are as successful because this club has absolutely turned on its head.

Stoney is nowhere near as fit as he needs to be but he's intelligent and he gets round the pitch well.

That is proving almost impossible without giving him some sort of break and I am hoping that they will agree,

It's been difficult to get him fit and when he does get fit he tends to get a whack on it.

I've got a couple who will not play. I'm not prepared to say who they are, but there will be some enforced changes.

Once again, the fact that he's around the place is a real bonus for us at this point in time.

The lads did terrific against a top six side in the Premiership. You've got to give them great credit for coming back three times, but then when your regular penalty taker misses the first kick it's just unfortunate.

I'm delighted with him. Rob didn't train this week,

But hopefully we will learn more and know what is required after he has seen the consultant on Monday.

I don't think at any time Brighton deserved to win that game, we were mugged. We've had a fantastic run the last few games so it hurts to come away from that.

If David stays here he will not be involved in the game in France and he will be put into cotton wool for the week,