Setanta Cup Final could be at the Cross

[Steve Bruce]

"winning ugly" implies restricting the oppositions opportunities and taking your own when they come. you did the second part, but you certainly didnt restrict our opportunities, if we had a decent striker on the field we could've won by 5.

you were certainly outclassed, you simply could not pass the ball, your defence was terrible, your number 9 looked like an intellegent footballer but lacked any pace. I (cant believe i will say this) hope you get what you deserve from Drogheda in the final as I'd hate for you to imagine that you weren't pathetic tonight.

And as the song went, where was your famous home support? I got a good laugh out of jeffries claiming the crowd kept the team going, he must have thought we were the home fans!

You never forced a save from our keeper in the first hour of the game. Then he made a few decent saves and you hit the bar. You played very well untill the final 3rd where you are average at best.

Also we opened up your defense a couple of times in teh first half and one chance in particular Paul McAreavey back passed to your keeper. That was a glaring opportunity to score and if we did, the game could have been different.

Last night we played very very bad, that wasn't the Linfield team that won the league and won our group, that was a Linfield team that started to show the strains of a hard season and complacency. We played terrible but rest assured we will be a hell of a lot better by the final when we only have 1 game a week for the next 2 weeks.

Our support is a funny support. We are vocal when we want to be. We are a lot more vocal for away games eg Drogheda.

Our defence isn't fit at the moment. Murphy our best defender came off, Bailie is past it and very slow and has been losing his place to Kris Lyndsay but he is injured. And Aidan O'kane is now our first team left back, but our left midfielder is out now till 2008 so we have had to put Pat McShane in there who is also very much past it. Although for such a bad defence it's not too shabby getting a clean sheet.

Last night you where lucky and unlucky. Lucky Linfield didn't turn up and unlucky the way you got beat. But that's football. Instead of whining about it, accept it, move on and accept defeat graciously. Something which seems to be lacking with certain people namely Gamble. Very unprofessional.

[Steve Bruce]

I don't know if Linfield played that poorly as from what I observed City stopped them from playing in every area of the pitch. Long balls were shutdown by the central defenders & no space in midfield.

To say we dominated the game would be to say last years final was an even contest. Every week i send the same text updates "domination but can't score".

Took a while to get going but great atmosphere by the City fans - maybe 150-200 in total.

Thanks to the Linfield Supporters club for invite to their bar before the match.

Linfield played poorly, we couldn't pass a ball 2 feet, our players lacked movement and imagination. Our team just didn't turn last night.

It was good to have a vocal away support at Windsor, I would hope to play you again in the future and hopefully Linfield can show you how well we can play. Although one thing we did show, was the Linfield tradition of playing untill the final whistle no matter how unlikely the win is.