We needed this. Our fans were huge, and we really responded to their support.

All the fans who came out, we're going to need their support all year long. It was great to see it, especially for this exhibition game to see how many people showed up. I hope they keep coming back and I hope we made it exciting for them.

My heart will always be with the Boston fans. I hope that everyone who truly loves me will still support me now that I won't be with the Red Sox,

We have had great support from our fans and we have one common goal, to avoid relegation, and we see this as the way forward to do this. I am sure Craig would have got it right in the end but there was a limit on the amount of time we had.

The way the fans support me here is unbelievable.

We never should have left. The fans here are yearning to support a championship team and that's exactly what we are planning to build.