The Press and Journal (Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire)
Neil McCann
There is absolutely no fear in that dressing room, I think they showed that throughout the duration of the game.
St Mirren have got good players who can hurt you. We respected them in the build-up and the match. They are going to put you under pressure at stages.
We are a Championship team, this was my 13th game in charge in a very short space of time.
It is natural that they are going to be tired.
They got a bit of fortune and maybe St Mirren will say they deserved it. I say maybe we deserved some tonight.
I wish Jim and St Mirren all the best in the next round.
I think we won a lot of respect tonight.
We are an attacking team.
We coach to be really disciplined and hard to beat out of possession.
But the one thing we coach is to be really brave in possession, go with speed and a bit of freedom to make mistakes.
It was a really good football game for everybody to watch.
There were chances at both ends, some great saves and shots off the woodwork.
We are rightly disappointed but there were a lot of good things about the game.
They moved Richard Tait in to man-mark Scott Allan because he was really pulling the strings and starting to find space.
That gives him a lot of confidence but as a group we were really strong.
It was hard to make a sub.
Sometimes you make a sub because your tactics aren’t working but I made it through Nikolay Todorov getting tired. Otherwise I was happy with how we performed.