We haven't played well for a full 90 minutes for a while now, the last game (against Austria) was a step in the right direction until David was sent off. We need a good performance to lift everyone. There was some doom and gloom even though we've qualified.

We've played in spurts, not always a full 40 minutes.

We played a full 40 minutes of sound basketball.

It has been a long 41/2 months, so far, since I last played, so I'm very keen to get back into the thick of the action. I have trained for quite a while now and it is nice to have been out with the players on the pitch training all week. Now I'm looking forward to getting on to a proper pitch.

We played a triangle-and-two the last eight minutes of the game, and they didn't score.

We've got a big game on Saturday, and we could do with taking three points.