Mark Thompson Game Quotations

We are going to review the game on Monday morning and it will be the best education tool you could possibly give,

Absolutely, they're going to review the game Monday morning and it'll be the best educational tool you could possibly get, ... It won't be critical. It'll just be a very good review of the game and what we did really well and what we can do better next time we get in this situation.

All they'll be playing for is to have a win in their last game and it just gives them something to look forward to next season,

(You can) use it for the rest of your life, basically. It's a game they could have won. Last year, we played a preliminary final and it was very tight and we had chances to win that if we'd handled that better. Eventually, you know as a coach of a club that you've got to experience these types of games and this type of pressure.

I told them at three-quarter time we had to win the game and when we got the first goal we should have kept attacking them,

It was a strain. He didn't have anything on his scans, and last week, we really could have played him. He trained last week as you all would have seen, and it was just precaution that we didn't play him, which almost helps this week because you know that he'll go into the game with the right frame of mind,

I don't think the game has any problems at all. We shouldn't keep trying to predict how the game might be played in three or four years. Everybody is happy how the game is going now.