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« on: November 16, 2007, 04:15:17 PM »
From the desk of Roy Keane
"It was exactly what we were looking for. Sometimes these games can go a bit flat but we asked the players to keep going and they did.
I'm delighted with them. We wanted to give everyone in the squad a game and we were only ever going to give Deano an hour. The temptation is always to leave him on but it would have been silly to take any risks.
I'm sure that if you'd asked Deano or Coley, they would have wanted to stay on for the 90 minutes but you have to be clever with it.
They are in the dressing room at the end and they both feel fine and it's the same with big Stan [Varga].
We have another nine days until our next game so there was no need to take any risks with the injured players.
I knew that Falkirk would play some good football and that their lads would work hard, it was a good game and I thought a draw was a fair result.
We travelled up here tonight and we're pleased that it was a decent night - the players coming back from injuries got good workouts.
There are no real injuries - everyone came through the game and hopefully one or two will give me a [selection] headache for next week [at Everton].
The introduction of the three young lads [Waghorn, Henderson and Hourihane] gave us a bit of a boost. They have got young legs and energy. The young lads would have been looking at the senior players and I thought they set the tone very well.
We have another game organised for Tuesday, we are playing Chesterfeld, and we'll consider over the weekend who will play in that, we'll see if there's any reaction first.
Kenwyne is not a bad sub to bring on. Maybe it was a risk - it was cold night an he didn't do too much of a warm up but he wanted to get involved and he caused them one or two problems.
For a change the result didn't really matter. The injured players coming back, the attitude of our lads and the opportunity for young players to get involved in the first team - they were the most important things.
Thanks for your support.
Roy Keane"
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