From the Skipper

THE CAPTAIN JOSH FALKINGHAM

IT WAS GREAT TO GET THE WIN against Mansfield on Tuesday night and continue our recent strong home form. We want to make this ground as tough as possible for opponents to visit and since the turn of the year, we’ve been able to do that and get the result, which is so vital as every point adds up to our final tally. Beating Mansfield meant it was the first time we’d done the double over a League Two side and as good as that is, the only important thing was to get the three points, irrelevant of the result in the previous meeting between the two of us. We all admit that the first half performance was a bit flat and we knew at half time we had to get better. Aaron Martin scoring right at the start of the second half really helped and as we’ve seen this season, getting that first goal means a team can control and manage the game. It’s something we’ve been doing much better in recent weeks and it’s allowed us to go on and get the maximum points available to us. We face Grimsby on Saturday though and that’s going to be another really tough game and we’ll have to fight for every ball and win every battle to come out on top. We’ve already played them twice and are unbeaten against them in normal time this season but there’s a different manager in charge now and new players through the door so we can’t take anything for granted. Although Grimsby are near the foot of the table, it doesn’t really mean too much to us as every game in this division is really competitive. It doesn’t matter who we play, we have to go into them and act like it’s a cup final now until the end of the season. I think that’s the correct mindset to have at the moment as we want to keep racking up the wins and build some consistent form. We’re now in a period of games playing a lot of teams close to us in the league table and we know if we can pick up a lot of points from those games, it’ll only take us higher in the standings. Saying that though, like always the main focus has to be on what’s directly in front of us and for us that is Grimsby. We’ll put everything into the match to get the best outcome we can and hopefully continue what’s been a good little period of results at home.