I had a long talk with the first team and did some explaining about our 10 point deduction. The best question I was asked by a player was “How come we have to pay the price of Administration when clearly its not our fault?”. But it’s the players that pick up the tab for this action and we have (possibly) till the end of the season to decide how we feel about it. For those of you who dont know, the club cant afford the appeal costs so we wont be appealing.
I first spoke to the players on Thursday evening about this disgusting situation and I got one single attitude from all of the players. Lets go and get the 10 points back. On Saturday when we met, we sat and chatted about it and every single player agreed that we weren’t going to allow a bunch of people who know very little about football affect the way we play and approach every game. And approach the Wick encounter we did with a positive state of mind. Before the game we had 19 points to get from 18 games. Beating Wick meant we now have 16 points to get from 17 games to be safe. Wick probably felt that they would come and get 3 points but in the back of their minds would be that we’d beaten them once already and we knew their style. To be straight, they did have a couple of opportunities undeniably but so did we in the first half. In the second half we went up a gear and left them behind. I thank the players every week but in particular I’d like to thank them all for their great attitude and application through that 90 minutes.
Staying with the first team for a moment, we play another Brighton Charity Cup game on Wednesday this time against Mile Oak, 7.30 ko I think. We will be giving opportunities players who haven’t played or who have not been available for various reasons. I’d expect me and Steve to make around 7 changes for this game. Staying focussed on games to come we go to Arundel next week in what we aim to be another 3 points of the 10 they’re nicking off us - without so much as an appeal huh?
Although we have a first team game on Wednesday, and despite what I said in the dressing room there WILL be a very light training session on Tuesday night at Falmer. Half of you wont be involved in the game and if the weather closes in as predicted, the game Wednesday night could well be off anyway. So all to attend.
The reserves went to Eastbourne United for their Saturday encounter and came away with very little. Once again I have to say that I’ve not had the chance to get the complete lowdown but on the face of it a 3-0 defeat will not be accepted by players and management alike. Training for all players on Tuesday night with Geoff Mactiffen.
Get used to this idea reserve players. Being relegated from the Reserve Premier League is not an option and is not going to happen and from here on in get your arse to training or have a good reason why you cant. Players who train are players who play. Just tipping up on Saturday is not happening no more.
The reserves play Selsey at home next Saturday at 2:30pm and with the first team playing at Arundel it may be a bit too far for our usual supporters so I hope they’ll get to the Caburn to get behind this young side, as they always do.
I hope you have a better week this week than we did last week.
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