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Josh Falkingham
It’s great to be back at The EnviroVent Stadium this afternoon after two long trips to Gillingham and Barrow. Our last home game here was played in extreme heat against Crawley which I felt made it difficult for both sides and did affect the pace of the game.
We followed that with without doubt the performance of the season so far away at Gillingham, especially with the game being just a few days after Crawley and all the energy that had taken. The lads were brilliant and showed they are doing the right things recovery and preparation wise to put in such a good performance, they deserve a lot of credit for that. That win has given us a lot of confidence moving forward, especially with a lot of the new lads in the side that night. It was a massive lift for everyone and goes to show the level of performance we are capable of and the results we can achieve.
To have had three clean sheets in our first four league games is a real positive, it’s something that the Manager and Thirs worked on a lot during pre-season. Last season the amount of goals we conceded wasn’t good enough and we needed to improve. You have to take your hat off to the lads coming in for that, there has been a lot of new faces who have never played with each other before, but they’ve had a fantastic start to the season.
Barrow away was always going to be a tough game, we’ve been there many times now and know how difficult it is. I felt we finished the game the stronger of the two sides and Barrow were holding on in the last ten minutes, but throughout the game we could have done a lot more.
The lads were really disappointed and are wanting to put things right this week against Newport. They are a team that have established themselves in this division and are always going to be strong, especially after the week they’ve had getting their first win over Tranmere and then beating Portsmouth on Tuesday night in the Carabao Cup.They’ll be coming to us full of confidence and on a real high, so it is going to be a really tough ask, but we’ll be aiming to take the positives from the start of the season we have had and have got to make the EnviroVent Stadium a tough place for anybody to come.
Ending on a positive note I managed to get my first full week of training in this week and, touch wood, am pushing towards being back in the fold. There has been no reactions after any session so far so I’m feeling really positive about it and hoping I’ll be back playing as soon as possible. Falks
