Ahead of Saturday’s league match at home to AFC Sudbury (3:00 KO), manager Tim Flowers has looked at the fixture and the latest news from the club. He starts with a look back at last weekend’s game…
The Worcester game started pretty even and we had a massive chance with Luke Benbow which he created himself that went wide. We then have Isaac Godwin sent off on his debut, who was doing well to be fair to him, and that was a real blow just before half time.
Early in the second half, I thought Worcester put us under pressure, and we was at full strength trying to contain their width. They ended up scoring and we stuck in there until the final knockings, having a huge chance when Brad Stretton gets through a couple of tackles and slipped Jack Kelly – that was our one big chance, and it ends up being an opportunity that we should have done a lot more with.
At the end of the day, it’s just another one of those games that slips by – we’re in it, but we don’t get a result out of it. It’s a huge disappointment for me and the lads; we’re in a position with 11 games left where we can’t dwell on misfortune for too long – the next one comes along and we’ve got to be up for it.
Sudbury, like us, depserately need a result and they’re going to bring it. I’ve seen a bit of them and I’m sure they’ve seen a bit of us. They’re quite open and they have some good attacking players in the team.
I spoke to our chairman today for almost half an hour and it was a really uplifting conversation that left me enthused – the people are in the consortium are going to make this club miles better and I’m hopefully going to be part of it. I really want to be – we really are going to get a decent club with a decent team. It does take time and it isn’t going to be a quick fix, and we want to do it in this division.
My absolute goal is to make sure we stay in this division to allow the improvements on and off the field to take effect at Step Three, and I’m sure everybody at the football club wants that too.
They’ve backed me with money to get players – I’ve spoken with a dozen to 15 players that would be good signings but it hasn’t happened for whatever reason – but it isn’t because I haven’t got the financial backing.
If one or two come in and it entices others than sobeit – myself and my staff are working hard to get players in, whilst also helping our own lads too.
Our gates, for where we are in the division, shows we have some serious support at this football club and there will be even more of that if we can sort things out on and off the pitch.
We’ll give it our all tomorrow to win the game and we’ll see at quarter to five on Saturday where we are even clearer.
