OLLY MARTIN

HELLO EVERYONE AND WELCOME BACK HOME FOR THIS AFTERNOON'S GAME AGAINST STOCKTON.

The squad is feeling good after a bit of a break due to the weather and postponements. It was important to train hard over the last two weeks to keep ticking over. The management made sure we kept our fitness up with some running and high-tempo games. You have to expect cancellations at this time of year the lads are still in a good mood though and we want to build momentum from our recent results. My calf is alright now after the Dunston game. I’ve been quite ill over the Christmas period as well but I’m coming towards the end of that. I’m fully focused on today's game and feel ready to go. It’s good that there’s competition between all the forwards. For personal reasons, you want to be at the top, but you always want to score in every game regardless. You don’t really care who’s getting the goals, as long as the team is winning. We know what Stockton are about. They’ll be wanting to get it down and play but I don’t think our pitch will suit them. It’s a big advantage and I think it’ll suit us more because we can adapt our style. Stockton will try to pass it around and get high up the pitch, so we know what we need to do defensively as a unit. If we can get a result it’ll put pressure on them for the rest of the season as well. Getting two goals against them in September was great so hopefully I can replicate that performance this afternoon.