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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 Lutterworth Town who are the visitors to the Sett for tonight’s United Counties Premier Division South fixture.
Tonight’s game represents our penultimate Home match of the season as well as it being our final fixture under the lights, with only next weeks trip to Rothwell Corinthians followed by Easington Sports here the week after left to play.
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It doesn’t seem 2-minutes ago that we welcomed Kettering Town here to the Sett for the season opener back in July.
Tonight’s opponents are no strangers to us given that we only played the reverse fixture at Lutterworth a few of weeks ago. On reflection we didn’t play well that day, conditions didn’t help, albeit you could argue that we were worthy of a point, as a controversial late penalty decision handed the hosts a 2-0 lead and with it the win at a time when we were in the ascendency.
Whilst we have won every game since, Lutterworth have stuttered of late losing three on the spin which has left them looking nervously over their shoulder, just 5 points above the bottom two (prior to the weekend fixtures).
That makes tonight’s game important, its the business end of the season, this is not a mid-table end of season fixture, Lutterworth have it all to play for and we need to match them! We’re not playing for self pride. We’re playing to win, not only for the integrity of the league, but we also want to finish as high as we possibly can in the table.
With a trip to Rothwell Corinthians next weekend, we could have a huge say in who finishes in those bottom two places come the end of the season.
We have a young squad, many of whom have stepped up from last seasons Reserve Team and are playing at Step 5 for the first time. We have learnt along the way; we need to maintain our good form for the final three matches to give us a platform for the summer and next season when Play Offs are due to be introduced at our level giving us a new target to aim for.
As always thank you for your support, enjoy the game and we look forward to seeing you again on Saturday when we make the trip to Rothwell Corinthians which is followed a week later by our final game of the season when Easington Sports are the visitors to the Sett.
& Daniel



