I trust you all had a great Xmas and new year, me? well me and the missus have suffered with bad colds bordering on flu (tossing typical !!), but the kids had a great time (i hope !).
Local football has been a bit thin on the ground, Scarborough did play at home on Saturday (I was elsewhere), whilst Brid travelled to Mossley where they lost 2-1, with Neal Redfearn scoring in the last few moments.
Today was a day where hopefully all the New Years resolutions were going to kick in for the team and start 2008 on a real positive note. In fairness to the team, they did do it today, creating many one on one chances, only as you can guess from the scoreline, we didn’t take any. Earlier in the year, Harrogate turned us over 3-1 (or something like that cant be bovvered to look) and more recently gave Mansfield a good run for their money in a televised FA Cup 1st round tie. So to pretty much dominate most of the game and come away with a point wasn’t to shabby an effort. The new lad who played at number 11 today was very good, only here on a short term loan deal. The weather conditions were, what appears to now be the norm at Queensgate, pretty horrendous. A crowd of 117 was on hand to watch a reasonable game of footy.
However, after getting home from the in-laws at about 7.30sh, I read with horror that our managers (Ash Berry and Paul Stoneman) had been sacked. To be honest, they were two cracking lads who had really endeared themselves to everyone at Brid but had found it difficult grinding out the results they needed to maintain and improve the teams/clubs position. Being right near the bottom again this year, hasn’t been conducive to todays decision. Granted if you wanted to make your point, you could have moved Ash and Paul on a few weeks ago or in a few weeks time – BUT TODAY ??? not good im afraid. It could mean we lose a lot of the players these guys brought in to play for the club, who, (in mine and other peoples opinion) felt we were just about to turn that corner (but we’ve been turning that corner for the last few months!).
My thanks go to Ash and Paul, and Grant who was part of the management team for all their efforts, and the fact they were 3 top guys who wanted to build a great team for the people of Brid. Fingers crossed that Stoney will stay, as he has been one of our most consistent players this year (but in fairness would you stay ?).
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Home on Saturday, hmm will be interesting….
