Scott Thomson Quotes (6 Quotes)

People expect us to turn up here and beat them four or five nil and if you get the early goal, maybe it turns out like that. Obviously theyre just part-time so I think if wed got one goal they would have collapsed.

We don't think the water is there.

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.

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

That probably kept us in the cup because, for all our pressure, I wasnt sure we were going to score today.