'It has been a disappointing season' - Gregg

The Drumahoe club, who drew their penultimate game of the 2009/10 campaign with Coleraine, now hope that Loughgall can win their remaining four games of the season and deny Donegal Celtic the Championship title and make the Belfast men face 'Stute in a two legged play-off.

The Coleraine man also feels that the enforced break around Christmas time didn't help his side's chances of staying off the foot of the table.

"We got into a rut, we were alright coming up to Christmas if you had looked at results, but we had a break for four or five weeks without football and that hurt us, because the players had got themselves into a wee bit of momentum but you can look back and say a lot of things, but I'm still learning about the game and the big thing I have learned this year is that sometimes the player with the big heart is better than the technically gifted player," he said.

"It has been a disappointing season, obviously the things which happened in January was a big blow for us, but I also have to say that people felt at the start of the season we had a better team on paper than last year and I would have agreed with that, but there's a lot to be said about a player who is technically good but doesn't have a big heart; that's one thing I would say about the Irish League I don't think games are won by technically good footballers, I think 80 per cent of the time matches are won by mistakes and the team who work the hardest.

"It hasn't been a great season, but at the end of the day the club were in a play-off before against Donegal Celtic when Liam (Beckett) was manager and they went down, now if we are lucky enough and god willing we get a chance to stay in the league via a play-off then we have to be up for it and ready for it."

Gregg also admits that the Belfast men are currently in pole position, but as someone once said 'football is a funny old game' and the 'Stute gaffer is hoping there will be more twist and turns before the end.

"I know the way football works and I know that as much as we would like to know everything about it you can never predict it and that's one of the beauties about the game.

"DC are in pole position, they could win the league and we are down, but if they come second then we'll have a play-off to save ourselves."

Gregg not for the first time this season was disappointed that his side failed to keep a clean-sheet against the Bannsiders on Friday night.

"We wanted to win the game, a rocket scientist would have told you that," he added.

"Going in at half-time we had done well in the first half, but again we conceded a goal; we have been in that situation leading a game at half-time but then concede a goal in the second half. I told the players that even though we were winning 1-0 I felt we needed another goal, but Coleraine got their equaliser and I think both sides had chances and I felt we were going to nick one at the end but we didn't.

"We threw players forward at the end looking to win the game, Declan Divin had two great chances and Paddy McLaughlin had a header late on kept out, but as I have said it didn't happen, so we obviously now have to rely on a play-off, we need Loughgall to win their remaining matches to over take DC at the top of the league, so time will tell."