A delighted Latics manager told Latics Player, "I scored here the day my son was born for Derby County, 21 years ago now! It was my first proper professional goal too. We also won here with Doncaster whilst we were in the conference, in the FA cup and this is three years in a row for Latics too I hear? I think all the chances that came as a result of proper football came from us, they're a big side and they kept launching the ball into the box. Sean especially was excellent in dealing with that, he's been a man mountain and a leader out there against a big side. Dean's done very well too, when the ball is coming in to the box you need your 'keeper to help you out at times."
"We've given too many silly free kicks away and we'll have to look at that. I think we can do it better, there's a few tackles we could have won. If you are going to give away a free kick give away a proper free kick, let them know you are there. You have to do that sort of ugly stuff away from home and we've done that again today. Two or three weeks ago we wouldn't have got that penalty and then they'd have scored their last minute chance and we'd have lost. This time it's gone the other way and we've won game and we're delighted with that."
"You only put pressure on yourself as a player or manager with things like missing a penalty. But Pav's work rate and link up play is first class and even playing injured he stands out and he's deserved his goal today. The one chance that stands out is where their kid has somehow scooped it over his cross bar from on the goal line with Pav waiting to tap it in. We're a settled team now and that helps, hopefully there's more to come and there's still lots to work on. You can see players are getting used to the work ethic and the way we do things and we're benefitting from that now. The most important thing as a manager is to work hard so the quality can then show through. Three on loan is about right, too many and you can lose your identity and we have to balance that."