The Swansea City stars were both being questioned following Jay Bothroyd’s comments about the Swans not being the team they were last season.
But if the comments had riled them they were not giving anything away as they responded to questions from BBC Sport over the comments.
Ash said “He’s going to say whatever he thinks and obviously he’s trying to do a bit of mind games, but we’re not listening
“It was a bit foolish on his part. We are not going to bite to that or anything. We are just going to prepare as we would any other game.”
The views of Williams were echoed by Britton who added “These games are like cup finals,” he said. “Every time you play it’s going to be different and the form book goes out of the window.
“The team that keeps their coolness and keeps calm will be the team that invariably plays better.
“We are all looking forward to it. You can’t say it’s just another game. It’s a special game. It’s a game everyone wants to win.
“These things happen,” he added. “When the build-up to these kind of games come along, people say things and try and stir things up, but at the end of the day it’s just mind games.
“The lads won’t think of it as anything more than a throwaway comment.
“We won’t use the comments made by opposition players, managers, supporters or anyone involved on the opposition teams.
“Things like that won’t come into a team talk. We will just go about our business.”
