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Alex Neil has had a chat with Sky. It was quite a lengthy chat, and he speaks very quickly, but here’s a taster:

We’re really relaxed. We’re ready. The club’s been trying to get in the playoffs for 24, 25 years and we’ve managed that, so it’s been a brilliant season so far. The first leg, naturally once it’s done, might shape what the second leg looks like, but our aim naturally is to win the first game. For us, we’ve played Hull twice this year, what it did show is both teams are more than capable of beating each other. It’s going to be an end to end game. I’ll be interested to see how it goes.

The owners made it clear to me how he wanted things to evolve. The recruitment’s been brilliant and the lads are absolutely first class. They’re very humble, they’re very hard working and I think if you’ve got a lot of those ingredients, that’s the recipe for success. As far as we’re concerned, we’ve got an unbelievable opportunity and we’ve got to just go for it.