THE CHAIRMAN

Good afternoon all and welcome to Addison Road for our fixture against Oadby Town. Our visitors from Leicestershire have come a long way and so I hope their supporters enjoy themselves and the home spectators make them feel welcome!

The home games continue to come thick and fast after a lean spell before Christmas and into the new year and I have to say I am really looking forward to this afternoon. This league has great strength in depth and Oadby can beat anybody on their day. Last season, our visitors beat us at home 1-2 and played us off the park for the first 20 minutes or so and so we will need to start well this week to stay in the game.

It was certainly a cracking game last week and I felt the score line did not do us justice. We just need to keep the faith with this group of players and if we can get ahead in a game, I am sure it will be a different story by the end of 90 minutes! There is a good blend of players and I felt they made life very difficult for the league leaders last week. An unfortunate penalty, which some might say on a few years ago would have not been one and an offside goal made the game look comfortable. I hope we can take our chances today to get those much needed 3 points to kick start 2023.

For in attendance, I hope you enjoy the game and have a safe journey home.

Best wishes

Richard Meadows Chairman

Good afternoon welcome back to Addison Road where we now have a good run of home games.

For those of you that watched us last week against league leaders Rugby you will have witnessed just how close we are, we are playing well against the top teams and competing all over the park, we have great spirit, work ethic & quality within the team. It was another hard one to take last week even it was against top of the league, upon reflection you look at little moments where you could have done better, others where you couldn’t have done anymore. As coaching team we felt that we just fell short in the final third, just been a bit more braver in dangerous areas, popping the ball down the sidess and joining in, that was the small difference between the 2 teams. All 3 goals were from mistakes which we need to improve on. This was against a team with a huge budget and players coming down from step 3. One thing we can never question is the players attitude, whatever we ask them to do in training or in a match they give it their all, we are very close and its only a matter of time before we start turning these performances into wins.

Today will be another tough game where we will hopefully build on last week, we will be asking the players to so exactly the same, be ruthless in both boxes, defend better and when we get into those areas, we need to start hitting the net.

You will notice that 2 of our new signings are yet to grace the pitch, Lemar has picked up a calf injury playing for his university, this lad looks a threat so I’m looking forward to him returning, hopefully he’s only a week away. Then we have Doru who looks like class act in training, very frustratingly we are still awaiting international clearance which has now been a month… Convey is very close and will be back in contention very soon. Also Tom Smith returns to the squad today after missing the last couple of games. You will notice that we have a full bench and with players coming in we have strong competition for places.

Finally, the boys will be buzzing come 3pm, be loud & get behind us!

Enjoy the match & get behind us, Sharm