I TAKE defeat worse than most.
But I took a conscious decision at the start of this season that I wouldn’t get too down about defeats and that I would remain positive as I always knew how difficult this challenge was going to be.
You don’t sleep when you lose – and when you wake up on a Sunday morning you may have a clear head but then all of a sudden those horrible feelings come back into your stomach.
But there’s no point being down as it’s not down to anybody else to turn it around – it’s down to me and my staff to put things right, work with the players we’ve got and make the changes I believe we need.
You’ll always get doom and gloom merchants but you’ve got to remember where this club was three years ago. We’ve got Kidderminster, Forest Green and Wrexham coming up and we are really looking forward to the challenge. People are probably already writing us off in these games but I think all it needs is a point or a win to kick-start our season.
Although Woking on Saturday was woeful, I think people who have watched our three games so far would agree that mistakes have cost us in each. We have to cut them out as one or two chances can be the difference between winning and losing in this division. We must stay in games and try and cause teams more problems offensively.
If people think you’re going to see free-flowing football then they’re in the wrong place because when you’re part-time in the Conference that’s not going to happen. You’ve seen already from the sides we’ve played that teams in this division are so organised and maybe play for a set-piece. We have to become more resilient and scrap our way through.
Stats don’t lie – we’ve scored none, won none, drew none and conceded seven. That tells me there’s a problem – and it’s a problem I’ve been trying to put right since 7pm on Saturday.
We will continue to work until we get it right.
