Ahead of tonight’s match at Leamington, manager Tim Flowers has looked at the opposition and reflected on Saturday’s win. He starts with the latest regarding Brad Bood, following his injury…
I spoke to Boody on Monday morning and to his dad on Sunday – Leon and Hussey have been to see him too. I believe he’s having an operation today – he’s suffered a dislocated ankle and a broken leg. Without wanting to labour the point, it was a really horrendous injury for the young man and I’m gutted for him. He’s gutted, his parents are clearly devastated about it but, nevertheless, the good news is that his ankle was put back in place on Saturday night and he’s got his operation today.
All of our best wishes and love from the football club goes to him and his family – and a massive thank you goes to everyone that helped him. Thankfully, it is an unprecedented type of thing that happens – it’s a contact sport, but usually not to that extent. It was a complete accident, but thanks to everybody involved in looking after him and seeing him off to the hospital. We will bring details out about how he is moving forward.
As for the game, we were winning at the time of the injury. There was a stop in play, and obviously we’d lost one of our boys and it shook the lads up a bit. In the end, I think we deserved to win it – we got a lot of balls in the box, and we got the win in difficult circumstances.
We know Leamington clearly will be a tough game. They made a big fist of it at our place and they’ve got some good players. They’ll be fancying their chances, there’s no doubt about that – they beat Banbury in their local derby on Saturday and we’ll have to be at our absolute best to try and get a result.
With all due respect, Leamington have been at a higher level than us, and we’ve got to try and aspire to where they’ve been – there’s no doubt about that. We’re humble, and we’ll go there with a humility about us.
I’d also like to thank the crowd that turned up on Saturday, because it was fantastic – north of 800 and obviously it was a long way for the Leiston fans to come and not many of them visited, so it was a terrific turnout.
Squadwise, obviously Boody is out and I’ve got Jermaine Hylton in, who did great when he came on Saturday. We are stretched and we’re always looking, but let’s see how we go.
