JAMIE COLEMAN

THE MANAGER

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

I’d like to welcome the Verwood management team, their staff, players and all officials and supporters who have made the journey to Andover this afternoon. Verwood are a club, who have struggled over the past few seasons at the wrong end of the League One table. This season they have shown in patches what they are capable of and currently sit in 8th place.

The Potters have always been a tough opposition for us, and I expect nothing different this afternoon. We will need to be at our very best to get a positive result.

We come into the game having gathered momentum recently with recent wins over Ash United, Romsey Town and most recently the Tuesday night victory over Amesbury Town. We have picked 14 points from the opening 18 points available so far this season.

I thought the North Hants tie against Andover Town last Tuesday was a real good advert for the Wessex League. Apart from a brief spell halfway through the first half, my team were magnificent, and so were you in the stands. We were all let down by some poor decisions during that 20-minute period in the first half but showed great character to come from behind and show the attacking prowess we have as we grew stronger in the second half.

The momentum followed us down to Romsey again where we were again resilient coming from behind twice. I was so proud of the team because you must be strong when you go behind, and we had a game changer in Cooky, and we took our chances as they arrived.

Please give it everything you’ve got from stands. We’ve had plenty to cheer in recent years and we all feed off each other here, which I know we will be doing again tonight as we set about making Foxcotte Park a fortress it usually is.

Enjoy the game.

APART FROM A BRIEF SPELL HALFWAY THROUGH THE FIRST HALF, MY TEAM WERE MAGNIFICENT, AND SO WERE YOU IN THE STANDS.