IN
THE HOT
SEAT …
With AFC Hayes
boss
Joe
Mitchell
I’ve not given up on
this season, but...
THERE are more changes ahead
at
AFC Hayes - and good ones, I
hope !
Things haven't guite gone for us
so far since the old
Brookhouse
club became AFC Hayes for this season.
But the Installation of Paul
Jeffries as the
club's new
chairman just before Christmas,
promises there will be more
progress ahead.
What I have heard so far has
been extremely
positive and I'm
looking forward to
sitting down
with him before the
end of the
season to see just what he can do
for us.
I've, not given up on this season,
even though we're
about a dozen
points
off the play-offs, but I'm looking ahead.
Perhaps we can get a couple
more players in
this term and
round
off the
season in
good shape
for a real bid
for promotion
next time.
But, if
we can get some good
results in our last
few matches against most of
the leading sides,then who knows?
I'm a fan of the playoffs
and.l'd
love to be imvolved In thern. After
all, if they weren't there, there
would be a lot of fairly
meaningless
football
matches taking
place at the
moment.
I've been here for six seasons, takinq
us up from
the Spartan
League end then
Division Two
of
the Ryman League.
I'm delighted
that we still have
some
of
the lads
from our Spartan
League
days with us today and
they have grown
arid developed as a team.
It hasn’t been so easy in the Southern League and, in
all honesty,we haven’t Really found
any form of consistency this season.
A very
good example was,
after winning four of our previous
six
games, we
went to Didcot Town
last Saturday and got thumped 6-0
And I must admit I probably
need to take certain things on
board.myself as a manager.
I'm a total fan of
attacking
football and that has gone against
us on occasions.
Looking ahead to next term, I will probably look
to bring in a
few more experienced players
and temper our style just a
little.
I don't want
us to
play negative
football-far from it-but we
need to be our own best friends when
results are there for the
taking.
We've
done so, well in the last;
few seasons - we've also won local
cups and reached
the last 16 of
the FA Vase -but I don't
think we
have reached our full potential just
yet,
We can
increase our fan
base and,
with the help of the new
chairman, take
further strides forward.
It's been a great ride so far.and I definitely want to
be on the next part of the journey.
Taken from non-league today paper.
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