25-04-2018, 12:35
My only gripe about us winning the Derbyshire Senior Cup was seeing Anyon in goal. If I was Dylan Parkin and had saved three penalties to get us there I'd be making plans to find a new club asap. That's a shame, I'm guessing a step up to reserve goalie next season would have been well within his capabilities.
Alfreton played eight of their first choices from Saturday's win over FC United if we need to gauge the level of our younger players' performances. Our youthful defence certainly deserves credit. It surely suggests that with a summer on their backs they will not be too far from challenging for places one level up in the Vanarama. Gozie and Binnom-Williams getting on the field is another positive for next season in my book, but not so thrilled about Sinnott ......... who can play and at the level we require, but in his last season at Halifax he played only 9 games was it - a smaller squad will make it difficult to carry a regular invalid, I just hope Gozie (who was pretty fit before we got hold of him) and JBW aren't slipping into that category too.
Though you think I know a lot about non-league it is really only because I'd always had some interest and in Danny's second season, with our club's organisation in such obvious chaos, I had one of my few perceptive moments and started finding out about teams and players at the level I thought we were heading for. If we stay down even for a couple of seasons I'm afraid you'll find you're like me! You'll know that our likely recruits will be from the tiers below us. You'll find yourself checking out Evo-stick results. You'll know that Liam Hearn of Basford United has scored even more than Jacob Hazel and that Frickley bagged six against Gresley on Saturday due to Gavin Allott not Jacob notching four. I recommend the Non-League Paper to you on Sunday mornings as a starting point.
Although we are now down it might be worth us getting 7-9 points in our last three games to get above Barnet. Sutton are in the play-offs. They are capable of winning them. If they do they've got a choice of digging up their pitch which cost their manager a mint, or refusing promotion and opting to step down a tier to National League South. How pissed will we feel if it turns out 23rd place equals safety if our monologue of gutless defeats is extended to our final three games?
Alfreton played eight of their first choices from Saturday's win over FC United if we need to gauge the level of our younger players' performances. Our youthful defence certainly deserves credit. It surely suggests that with a summer on their backs they will not be too far from challenging for places one level up in the Vanarama. Gozie and Binnom-Williams getting on the field is another positive for next season in my book, but not so thrilled about Sinnott ......... who can play and at the level we require, but in his last season at Halifax he played only 9 games was it - a smaller squad will make it difficult to carry a regular invalid, I just hope Gozie (who was pretty fit before we got hold of him) and JBW aren't slipping into that category too.
Though you think I know a lot about non-league it is really only because I'd always had some interest and in Danny's second season, with our club's organisation in such obvious chaos, I had one of my few perceptive moments and started finding out about teams and players at the level I thought we were heading for. If we stay down even for a couple of seasons I'm afraid you'll find you're like me! You'll know that our likely recruits will be from the tiers below us. You'll find yourself checking out Evo-stick results. You'll know that Liam Hearn of Basford United has scored even more than Jacob Hazel and that Frickley bagged six against Gresley on Saturday due to Gavin Allott not Jacob notching four. I recommend the Non-League Paper to you on Sunday mornings as a starting point.
Although we are now down it might be worth us getting 7-9 points in our last three games to get above Barnet. Sutton are in the play-offs. They are capable of winning them. If they do they've got a choice of digging up their pitch which cost their manager a mint, or refusing promotion and opting to step down a tier to National League South. How pissed will we feel if it turns out 23rd place equals safety if our monologue of gutless defeats is extended to our final three games?