THE MANAGER

Good evening and a very warm welcome to Foxcotte Park to all our supporters for this evening’s game against our visitor’s Fleet Spurs.

I’d like to welcome the Fleet management team, their staff, players and all officials and supporters who have made the journey along the M3 to Andover this evening.

Spurs have found this season difficult and are currently rooted at the bottom of the table. They are eight points adrift of Amesbury Town, who inflicted a 2-0 defeat on Spurs on Saturday Jack Vallis and Morgan Harvey were the scorers for Town.

Prior to that result, Spurs form had seen a bit of an up turn with wins over East Cowes Vics, Millbrook and Fawley since the turn of the year.

We come into the game having won last week at home to Hamworthy Rec and battled to a 2-0 win away at Whitchurch

The Hamworthy Rec game was a very tough game, as always against the Rec Chances were very few and far between for both sides, the Rec started better and took a deserved lead but we showed the character to get back level before halftime and then scored two quality goals in a 5 minute spell.

Against Whitchurch, we were very dominant and scored goals at important times and it was needed, as the Jam Boys battled throughout the 90 minutes and always are a threat, but we were able to claim the three points in the end.

We were able to bring in Layton Tulk from Bemerton Heath Harlequins recently, with Josh Moore going the other way. A big welcome to Layton, who has already showed his potential in the two games his has already played for us and I’d also like to thank Josh for all his efforts this season and wish him well at Bemmie.

We remain in a strong position moving into the business end of the season, with a number of key matches coming up over the next few weeks, the whole squad will be needed if we are to maintain our levels of performance.

Enjoy the game.