Duff: "You think, 'why me?'. But I'm a big man, and I've been around for a while now, so I'm going to have to get over it.
"I'll be thinking about it for a long, long time, but what can you do? That's football. You can't dwell on disappointments in your career. You have to move on.
"I think we've had a lot of bad luck, but at times in a season, you do make your own luck.
"I've loved working with Alan Shearer. It's been a proper, proper football club for eight weeks, and it's about time. It's just disappointing we couldn't stay up for him and the fans.
"I think he's been brilliant even though we haven't got the results to keep us up.
"It's the first time in a long while that this place has felt like a proper football club. Things are done right and it's been a breath of fresh air.
"If there's one man to get us back up, it's Alan Shearer."