I’ve been at Chester for two weeks now and I have really enjoyed it.
Rotherham was a really tough game, we prepared the players very well and training went well before the game but the lads didn’t show, in the first half, what we had seen from them in training and gave themselves too much to do.
When you look back at the goals, some of them, the second in particular was just really bad luck and the sort of goal you only concede when you are at the wrong end of the table and things really aren’t going your way.
But we changed things at half time, we created a few chances and restricted them to very few so we have to take positives from the game and there were a lot to take, despite going down to a very good Rotherham side.
Regardless of how things have gone the lads have been upbeat this week, we have had a good week of training and I think everyone is confident of getting that first win against Barnet, we scored our first goal last week which was important and know that on another day we could have had more.
There has been a lot of negativity around, outside the club, but we are only three league games into the season and one of 10 teams up and down the country who are yet to pick up a point. There are three others in our division in the same boat while three others would give their right arms to swap points with us!
When we lost to Leeds the reports were less than complimentary, after all Leeds are on paper only one division higher but when you look at their result from the Carling Cup Second Round it doesn’t seem so bad after all. Leeds scored four against Championship side Crystal Palace with Neil Warnock admitting “Quite honestly we couldn’t cope with the front lads.”
We need to get things into perspective right now and I have seen enough from the players at Chester and from the work me and Simon Davies have put in that a result is not far away.
Negativity is a massive bugbear of mine; it doesn’t achieve anything or change anything. The important thing when teams are going through a tough spell is to stick together.
We obviously want to win every game just as everyone else does. We prepare and set the team up to go out and win every game but we also have to be realistic and know that that is not always going to happen but we have to make sure the players give everything and go into games with all the knowledge we can give them.
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