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SOUTHAM UNITED
LOOKING TO START
2022 ON THE FRONT FOOT WORDS // RHIAN TILLEY
The club’s leading goal-scorer and two-time Player of the Match winner, Jay Lawes, discusses the importance of starting out the second half of the season strong, as well as how the squad is moving on from some tough, recent league and cup match defeats at Bobby Hancocks Park. We’ve gotten through the winter break and the completion of the front half of the season. Where are you at in regards to the way the first 14 matches have gone? Overall, I think the first half of the season has gone well, everyone has been working hard and it has been displayed on the pitch. We’ve scored a lot of goals and have played some really good football, especially in the big games. The recent defeat at home to Cropredy felt like a very tough loss. Was there a bit of a hangover for the Kenilworth game? Or did it feel like two completely different matches in their own right? The Cropredy game was a tough result to take, we were not sharp enough from the start and found it hard to get going during the game. Going into the Kenilworth game we knew it would be a bigger challenge and I thought we were very unlucky with the result; we played some good football but were let down with poor refereeing decisions throughout the whole game.
You’ve been in great form since the last time we spoke; topping the team goal-scoring leader-board, picking up multiple POTM awards, etc. What do you think has helped you to find that form so quickly after joining the team at the end of September? The team has helped me hugely in each game to get my goals, as well as Rich and the coaching
