Devenish-Meares produces epic shootout heroics for Sydney to end Newcastle\u2019s treble dream in gripping semi<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI would\u2019ve liked not to have a week off \u2013 that\u2019s something I need to look at. All year after the international breaks we weren\u2019t at our best.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut tonight from the very first moment we showed our intent and Sydney were very resilient.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having surprised everyone with an endearing young side, Milligan looked at the bigger picture immediately after the defeat.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is never nice losing, especially that way.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought Sydney were fantastic over two legs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe gave as good as we got. Probably a bit unlucky\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cThis group of players has been outstanding. Everything I\u2019ve asked for them \u2013 and believe me we\u2019ve pushed them to their limits and they respond every time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be doing everything in my power to make sure we don\u2019t finish like this next year.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cWe don\u2019t want this to be the end we want this to be the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Captain Max Burgess, who was hugely influential in this contest against his former club, struck a similar tune.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the overriding emotion is pride, so proud of this growth, what we\u2019ve done this season, togetherness in the group and to bring the community together,\u201d he said on Paramount.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had so many amazing memories, football can be cruel at times but so incredibly proud.\u201d
He concluded: \u201cIt is hard to right in this moment, we were eyeing the treble, we are an ambitious group \u2013 it is hard to reflect in this moment. It has been an amazing year but it is a bit deflating now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle Jets boss Mark Milligan has vowed to make sure his side goes one further next season after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8793,4708,247,1643],"class_list":["post-12564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sydney","tag-mark-milligan","tag-newcastle-jets","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}