MANAGER’S NOTES

We welcome everyone back for today's tough encounter with Sussex rivals Whitehawk.

It has been a really hard few weeks for myself and the players and last Saturday's heavy defeat away at league leaders Ramsgate was another tough one to take.

Again we found ourselves well in the game and created a couple of very good chances, the first one would have seen us take the lead, then they scored soon afterwards. We then had another great chance before the break.

On 72 minutes we had young Junior sent off for a challenge in the opposition's half, definatly a booking but never a red card in my opinion. That changed the whole shape of the game and I must admit the changes I made were massively disappointing.

As we have known for some time we have a really hard run of games now and we need to bounce back today against the team in top spot in the form guide.

We know its going to be extremely difficult as they are hunting down automatic promotion, but we will be setting up firstly to try and stop conceding goals and we need to have a change in fortune with the chances we are creating.

I'm sure once these chances start getting converting it will put us in a much stronger position to take more from the

Drew Cooney

games. Ben Aubery will be making his first appearance since returning from Dorking Wanderers today which is really positive and we have Harrison Parker back from suspension.

In the last home game we showed great character to chisel out three points and we will need similar today, as well as your support from behind the goal.

Everyone’s support is really important over the coming games and the lads will be working hard to get as many points on the board between now and the end of the season.

Drew