THE MANAGER

Good afternoon and a very warm welcome to Foxcotte Park to all our supporters for today’s game against our visitor’s Romsey Town.

I’d like to welcome the Town’s management team, their staff, players and all officials and supporters who have made the journey to Andover this afternoon.

Romsey are now in their ninth season in League One after their relegation from the Premier in 2014 and they have always been a tough side to play against.

This season they have made an indifferent start and perhaps should have more points then they currently have. They have taken points off both Folland Sports and New Milton Town and come into the game fresh on the back of a win over Fawley AFC.

That result over the Oiler’s stopped a losing run of four games so we know that we are in for a tough game this afternoon.

We come into the game having continued our impressive unbeaten run in the league into the new year with victory over league leaders New Milton Town.

I thought the game with the Linnets was a good advert for the Wessex League. Both sides went for it in difficult conditions.

I’m not being biased when I say my team were magnificent, and so were you in the stands. We showed great character to weather the New Milton attacks in the first half and scored a great goal from a Mikey Davis corner that beat the keeper and gave Scott Hassell the easiest of headers to give us the lead.

In the second half, we showed the attacking prowess we have as we grew stronger and just when it looked as though we would hold on to a 1 -0 win, Cooky broke through to make certain of the points

Then a few weeks ago we came up against a spirited Ringwood side that certainly made life difficult for us and we were thankful to Josh Moore’s late equaliser that earn a point that could be crucial at the end of the season.

Recent postponements have seen us fall to third place in the league, but we know we need to maintain our season form, starting this afternoon.

Enjoy the game.