Gavin Macpherson is under no illusions about the importance of tomorrow’s basement battle against Eastbourne Borough, another full-time team but one he believes is in a false position.
The Sports finished one point off the automatic promotion places last season, only to slip up in the playoffs – an indication of the threat they can potentially pose.
Although they have only one league win so far this season and are one place off the bottom, victory away at Maidenhead and a draw at Ebbsfleet in their last four games illustrates their threat on the road, particularly now that Tommy Widdrington is back in their dugout.
But with a fair wind behind us, literally and figuratively, the points are there to be won.
“I don’t know why Eastbourne are in the position they are but I’m not reading much into it when you look at the players they’ve got. They are well resourced and clearly under achieving at the moment,” said Gavin.
“I wouldn’t call it a six-pointer at this stage of the season but it’s obviously an important game. But we’ve been playing well. We’ve been the better team for most of the last three performances even though we only got the one win against Ebbsfleet. In fact I’d go as far as to say that only against Chesham have we been outplayed.”
Converting a sufficient number of our chances and conceding last-ditch goals, as everyone knows, have been ongoing concerns. “When I said I was angry after Horsham it wasn’t directed at the boys but from a results perspective, they deserve to be doing better,” said Gavin.
“Like so many sides in this division, Eastbourne are another full-time team who have more time to prepare, plan and train but I know the side we’ve put together is competitive. Give me that sort of time with this group and we’d be infinitely higher but it is what it is.”
Meanwhile the hunt is on to boost the forward positions. With Harry Lodovica and Matty Macarthur now departed, the management team are working hard to bring in at least one proven replacement. Watch this space …
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