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SOUTHAM UNITED
richard kay LETTER FROM THE MANAGER
I would like to welcome the players, staff and committee of Launton to Bobby Hancocks Park for today’s OSL Prem match day. It seems like a long time ago that we traveled to Launton for our first OSL game of the season. It was one of our toughest games of the season, against strong opposition. It was a hard earned, 2-nil away win back in September, but for long periods the game was in the balance until we scored the second goal very
Head Coach Richard Kay
late on. Launton are having a very good season and are in the top 4 of the OSL Prem for a reason. On their day they have shown they can beat anyone and are one of the best sides in the division. Last week’s game was yet another clean sheet and again, a very solid performance. It was one of those games that if we played ten times, nine times out of ten we win by 3 or 4. Again, we can only look back on some missed golden chances in front of goal. Known in football as sitters. The Cropredy goalkeeper was fantastic on the day, but we lacked the quality and patience in the final third to really turn our complete dominance in terms of possession into goals. Defensively, again, we were excellent and have been for weeks. Not taking chances costs you as much as bad defending. We are creating a bucketload of chances so I’m not concerned. If we convert a percentage of these chances we will make life much easier for ourselves. It was great to get the point and confirm mathematically a top 5 league position and eligibility for promotion to Hellenic 1 and step 6 of the NLS. Since the re-launch in 2019 it has been a long journey with a global pandemic thrown in to take the club full circle back to step 6 where the first team
