The Editor’s Wider View
That ‘R’ Word It has been a difficult season. There is no doubt about that.
know how to play together.
With five games left, we find ourselves eight points behind Ossett Town, who have two games more than us to play.
The club has shown faith in Lee and I have seen the makings of a superb manager - it just takes patience to allow him to build the squad around his ideas.
We’ve won four games this season, drawn nine in all competitions and now face the prospect of finishing second bottom in the league.
Trust and faith is simply something that many clubs do not show in their managers, panicking at the first signs of when things go wrong.
Contrast that to last season when we won 19, drew 13 and lost 10 - ending eighth in the league.
Now some reading this will point out that Railway face relegation. Yes we do. But we have assembled a core of young, talented players with bags of potential.
Doesn’t make pretty reading does it. However, the statistics tell one story and yes, we will be judged by the wider audience with those stats at 5pm Saturday 23rd April - but the real story is more complex. Over the summer, Railway lost a manager and a lot of talented players. Nearly all clubs would struggle to lose the players we did. That’s not to say that the players we started the new season with weren’t good enough, but a new manager and new players means that it takes time to get to
Lee has a three year plan and this is the first and most difficult year of that plan one that involved a forced rebuild of the squad. For those rushing to judge; compare Lee’s first season not with Billy Miller’s record breaking final season at Railway, but his first. Makes you think doesn’t it. Lee deserves our trust, patience and above all our faith. Five games to go and who knows how the season will end, there are still points to play for and maybe...just maybe?
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