THE CHAIRMAN

Good afternoon everybody and welcome to our last home game of the season for the first team. We would like to wish all those associated with Coventry Sphinx a very warm welcome to Addison Road.

What a game we have on our hands! Coventry have put together a terrific run to get to the top of the table and so this will certainly be a real test for Andy and his men. We have put together a little run of results also and so I am sure the boys will work hard to stay in the game and then you never know what might happen the longer the game goes on….

I know both sides will have had different aspirations for the season, however, I believe we have also had another good season. We have remained committed to bring through local talent and Andy’s side is made up of players largely from the area and so to be mid table and near the top of the second tier “within” the league is really pleasing. As always at this stage in the season, you are looking for ways to improve both on and off the field ready to progress further next season and we will do our best to maintain the stability.

We plan to renovate the toilets in the clubhouse as soon as the season has ended and we are grateful for Football Foundation support as they will be part funding these changes. The main pitch will be seeded and levelled also. We also know we need to do more with regards to sponsorship and home matchdays next season and so we will be thinking hard about how we might be able to raise a little more money to support the first team further next year. If you are reading this and would be interested in sponsorship pitch side banners or may be something else, please do get in contact with us!

For now, I hope you enjoy our home game of the season and enjoy the hospitality on offer. Please have a safe journey home.

Best wishes

Richard Meadows Chairman

Good afternoon, welcome back to Addison Road for our final home game of the season against a very strong Sphinx side. They are the best team we have come against this season losing 3-1 earlier in the season. Since then they have further strengthened with some impressive signings and will rightfully go on and win the league.

Its been really good few weeks winning our last 3 games against teams in & around us and even more impressively keeping 3 clean sheets. I was always confident this would happen, when you look at our performances it was only a matter of time before our fortunes turned. It has been small differences such as doing the basics better, being more consistent in individual performances across 90 mins & our game management has been excellent. We are now firmly in 11th place and if we are honest with ourselves we would have taken this at the start of the season. The money flying around in this league raises the standards with players dropping down from steps 3&4, we have to be realistic & be satisfied where we are as a club. The players have been excellent, we have no choice but to give 100% every game, we cant carry one player, that’s a huge challenge across 34 games, for this the players deserve huge credit, especially over the last few weeks where we have been playing catch-up.

The question is now where do we go from here? It is important as club we progress and push forward, over the next week we will sit down with the club and look at our ambitions for next season. For me personally this is my first season managing at this level and I have learnt loads & as a coaching team we know what takes and know what needs to be done to push us forward. If we are to carry on next season we certainly wont be settling for 11th place, for anything in life is all about small steps & progression.

As this will be my final notes of the season I want say a huge thanks to my coaching team, if you know me well enough I am relentless all through the week covering every little detail, the team around me have been brilliant, every one of them brings something different to the table. Also the people in and around the club are brilliant, so much work goes on behind the scenes. Finally thanks to everyone that’s has backed us, come to watch us and really got behind us, it makes it all worth doing.

On to today it is set up to be great spectacle, Sphinx are flying and going for the league & we are sky high on confidence winning 3 on the trot & playing well, we will as normal go out, play with feeedom, and give it everything!

Thanks for all your support this season, enjoy the game, Up the CLAN!

Sharm