BSMFC MANAGERS NOTES

Good afternoon. We’d like to start today’s programme notes by extending a warm welcome to the players, officials and supporters of Eynesbury Rovers who are the visitors to the Sett for today’s United Counties Premier Division South fixture.

Well, what a difference a week makes…… you may recall that last week’s Programme Notes referred to the tough run of fixtures that we’d faced and whilst that was true, we go into today’s game following back-to-back league wins for the first time this season.

On paper they were easier fixtures however football matches aren’t won on paper. Neither game was a ‘give me’ hence I am proud of the lads for their efforts over the past week. The challenge now is can we sustain the levels that we demand of ourselves between now and the end of the season starting with today’s fixture against an improved Eynesbury Rovers where we hope to make it a hat-trick of wins.

Looking back at the last 7-days there was an element of pressure as we welcomed a much-improved Rothwell Corinthians to the Sett; we went into the game on a bad run of form where defeat could have left us looking over our shoulder. As it was, we did enough to secure the points winning 2-1 thanks to Simmo and Joe Malkin, the latter with his first goal for the club.

Onto Tuesday we made the long trip to Godmanchester, not ideal mid-week! To their credit the lads turned in an excellent performance and despite playing the majority of the second half with ten-men we came away with a 30-win courtesy of goals from Kev Shehi, and the Will’s (Glennon and Jones).

A welcome 3 points on the road lifting us into the top half of the table.

With players starting to return the squad is looking stronger, lets hope this bodes well for a positive end to the season as we aim for a top-half finish.

Away from the First Team we must mention the Reserves who have just picked up the UCL Reserve Team of the Month Award for February, very well deserved on the back of a strong month for Jonesy and the lads.

We also want to say Good Luck to the ‘B’ Team and Under 13s White who both represent the Club this weekend in Northamptonshire FA County Cup Semi-Finals. To get this far is an achievement to be proud of, to make the Finals would be the icing on the cake!

As always thank you for your support, enjoy the game and we look forward to seeing you again next Saturday when we make the trip to Lutterworth Town.