Eddie Howe said:

"It was a similar feel to the Leeds and Sheffield Wednesday games. We had chance after chance and couldn't take them. The important thing is not to get impatient and not to over think things and be too extravagant.

"I thought we controlled things really well. The goals came at a good time. You are always looking for things to improve.

"Leicester are a transition threat, especially when Vardy comes on. The defenders concentration was very good. At 0-0, we limited them.

"The hallmark of our team is that they don't stop. The athletic capability of our team is very high. Allied to that is the mentality, to understand the need to work and run and our players understand that. To the end we were trying to push.

"You have to enjoy winning. It doesn't happen all the time. You work hard for the moments in the changing room and you want the players to savour it.

"It's been too long (for a trophy win), too long a wait. That's no criticism of anyone that's tried, but we're desperate to hurry up the processes and try to get the team successful as quickly as possible.

"That's easier said than done, and we now go to a semi-final. Getting to the semi-final is one thing, but you want to get into the final, you want to experience that.

"We know we'll have a huge test ahead of us whoever we get, but we're just delighted to be in there.

"Credit to the supporters for not getting anxious when we were missing chances. It certainly helped the players relax and get the goal in the end. I'm really pleased for the club and supporters to be through to a semi-final rather than for myself.

"We are delighted. It was what we wanted, the semi final. The performance level was excellent from start to finish and we created lots of chances.

"The emotions that come out in that state are relief. We are trying to be ambitious and take no backward steps. This team always focuses on what comes next. The FA Cup defeat could have shaken us but it didn’t.”

"It was a brilliant moment for Dan Burn to score. A betting man would not put their money on Dan Burn’s right foot but what a finish! It is moments like that make football.

"I am so pleased for him. This is his club and he has come back here and he is savouring every moment.

"I was actually asking him to speak and he stood up (in the dressing room) and danced. But when someone as popular as him has a moment like that then I think it's important we all share it with him.

"He moves quite well for a big man, doesn't he?"

The Geordie Dancer

(Sky Sports beamed out live post-match scenes from the home dressing room, eavesdropping on a brief message from Eddie Howe and then speaking to Burn after filming the now-traditional group victory photo:

This access all areas approach will doubtless be the norm if (or when) the proposed "fly on the wall" documentary series about NUFC becomes reality.

Burn added:

"I used to sit in the East Stand you always want to score in front of the Gallowgate end, to do that in front of my family was amazing.

"I like to get forward and it's entertaining watching a guy my size running into the box. It was exciting before the game.

"The gaffer made a big thing of going for a trophy this season, in previous years staying in the league was enough, but this year we want a cup.

"If we’re at this stage you’ve got to have winning it as your goal. We’ll be disappointed if we don’t at least get to the final. I remember Wembley Way and how disgusting the old Wembley was! I had my brand new trainers on and there was just wee coming down the stairs.

"I remember we scored and a lady in front of us kissed me. I remember that. I don’t remember the disappointment, not at that age. That was to come!

"The longer it goes on (without a trophy), the more you think it’s never going to happen but I’m sure it will. I’m hoping this season, but if not it definitely will happen.

"Growing up I went through a good bit of our history. There were the Champions League games, they probably made me fall in love with Newcastle United.

"I think that’s top like. I would say definitely. To score at the Gallowgate in the quarter-final of the Cup for Newcastle is what I dreamt of when I was a kid. It hasn’t really sunk in.

"Since I joined last January it’s been a surreal sort of 12 months and couldn’t have got any better.

"My family are buzzing. My dad has the love back for Newcastle, which he probably lost for a long time watching me play wherever I was. It’s a good place to be at the moment.

"We are in a position we probably didn’t see ourselves in at the start of the season so if anything we are probably overachieving. It’s not the pressure that City and Liverpool have, where they are expected to be up there and do it.

"I think that will come at some point just with the way the club is going with the ownership and the manager and the players we are bringing in. At the moment it is something we are enjoying and we just want to attack every team.

"It was disappointing watching from outside the club going out of the Cup every year. After a while you just accepted it.

"Since this manager has come in, that's not enough anymore. We want to have a go in all the Cups now – to make a semi-final, especially off the back of last season, means so much.

"You can dream of a final. We take one game at a time – it doesn’t make a difference who we play because if we want to win it we have to beat the best teams – but it’s an amazing achievement. We can’t get distracted with it, we have a lot of important games in the league and want to stay up there as well.

"Even though we’ve not won a trophy for that many years. It shows what kind of club and fanbase we are. We feel we’ve got a real connection with the fans now and there probably wasn’t that for a lot of years. We want to keep building it."