Royle pleased with cup win

Speaking after the game Royle said: "Tonight was excellent and there were a lot of look-at-me performances.

"All round we didn't have a problem and my only complaint was that we didn't hang onto our clean sheet.

"Recently we haven't been taking our chances but we scored some good goals.

"I couldn't be happier with the players, it was a good chance to put people in and find out about them."

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